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Profit a prendre

Profit a prendre, ' right for a man, in respect of his tenement, to take some profit out of the tenement of another man. Except in the case of a copyholder no claim of a profit...

Prayer for the Dead

Prayer for the Dead. A bequest of personal estate for masses for the dead is not void as a gift to superstitious uses, Bourne v. Keane, 119 AC 815; overruling West v. Shuttleworth, (1835) 2 My&K...

Occasioned by or in consequence of

Occasioned by or in consequence of, imply directly occasioned by or the direct consequence of, Walker v. London and Provincial Insurance Co., (1888) 22 LR Ir 572; Burrow's Words & Phrases.

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Libel

Libel [fr. libellus, Lat.; libelle, Fr.]. False defamatory words, if written and published, constitute a libel: Odgers on libel, p. 1. 'Everything printed or written, which reflects on the character of another, and is published without...

Judicial

Judicial, 'judicial' extends 'to the acts and orders of a competent authority which has power to impose a liability or to give a decision which determines the rights or property of the affected parties'. 'Judicial' embraces...

Hybrid award

Hybrid award, which are neither speaking awards nor non-speaking - partly speaking and partly non-speaking awards. If the award made by the arbitrator is a non-speaking one the difficulty of showing that there is an error...

iridium

A rare metallic element of atomic number 77 of the same group as platinum which it much resembles being silver white and indifferent to most corrosive agents but harder more brittle and with a higher melting...

Denomination

Denomination, in relation to a variety or its propagating material or essentially derived variety or its propagating material, means the denomination of such variety or its propagating material or essentially derived variety or its propagating material,...

Bias

Bias [adopted from Fr. biais, oblique]. The law will not suppose a possibility of bias in a judge, who is already sworn to administer impartial justice, and whose authority greatly depends upon that presumption and idea,...

Bees

Bees, includes at any stage in their life cycle, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, 4th Edn., Para 529, p. 428. These are fer' natur' and the property in them is ratione soli; but a person...

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