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Ac Etiam
in order to give the Court jurisdiction, Bouvier's Law Dict. The ac etiam clause appears to have been invented inconsequence of the enactment of 13 Car. 2, St. 2, c. 2, that the particular cause of action
Assault with intent
assault with intent to rape, and assault with intent to inflict great bodily injury. There are modern statutory inventions that are often found in State Criminal Codes, Black Law Dictionary 7th Edn., p. 110.
Bill of Exchange
due course, Jones v. Waring, 1926 AC 670. The earliest recorded bills of exchange, according to Beckmann (Hist. Invent. iii. 430), are mentioned by the jurist Baldus, and bear date A.D. 1328. But they were by no
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Case, action on the
new writs which were analogous to the writ of trespass, or in consimili casu with that action, were invented and issued under the appellation of 'trespass on the case' (brevia 'de transgressione super casum') as being founded
Coat armour
Coat armour. Coats of arms were introduced by Richard I., from the Holy Lond, where they were first invented. Originally they were painted on the shields of the Christian knights, who went to the Holy Land during
Dry exchange
Dry exchange [cambium siccum, Lat.], a term invented in former times for the disguising and covering of usury, in which something was intended to pass on
Parchment
Parchment, skins of sheep dressed for writing [fr. pergamena, Lat.], so called because invented at Pergamus, in Asia Minor, by King Eumenes, when paper, which was in use in Egypt only, was
Pharmaceutical substance
Pharmaceutical substance, means any new entity involving one or more inventive steps. [Patents Act, 1970, s. 2(ta)]
Possibility on a possibility
a. The idea that there cannot be a possibility and a possibility seems to have been a conceit invented by Popham, C.J., but it was never really intelligible, Whitby v. Mitchell, (1890) 44 Ch D p. 92,
Public policy, opposed to public policy
shirked from extending it to new transactions and changed circumstances and have at times not even flinched from inventing a new head of public policy. Practices which were considered perfectly normal at one time have today become
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