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should set at nought the rigidity of existing law and formalities. A system was found by the monastic jurists upon a model furnished by the Civil Law, which, by a nice adaptation, evaded, without overturning, the Common

Resignation

relation to an office, it connotes the act of giving up or relinquishing the office. In the general juristic sense, in order to constitute a complete and operative resignation there must be the intention to give up

Pignus

'quia qu' pignori dantur, man traduntur.' This is one of several instances of the failure of the Roman jurists when they attempted an etymological explanation of words. The element of pignus (pig) is contained in the word

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Personality of laws

Personality of laws. By the personality of laws, foreign jurists generally mean all laws concerning the condition, state, and capacity of persons; by the reality of laws, all

Personal liberty

State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1963 SC 1295: (1964) 1 SCR 332. [Constitution of India Art. 21] The juristic conception of 'personal liberty', when these words are used in the sense of immunity from arrest, is that

Lifting the corporate veil

Lifting the corporate veil, it is true from juristic point of view the company is legal personality entirely distinct from its members and the company is capable

Jus respondendi

Jus respondendi, means 'the right of responding'. The authority conferred on certain jurists of delivering legal opinions that became binding law. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 867.

Jus

application among the Romans. There is another division of the matter of law which appears among the Roman jurists, viz., the Law of Persons, which is expressed by the phrase (1) 'jus quod ad personas pertinet,' (2)

Arrogatio

Arrogatio, a form of adoption in Civil Law. It could not be effected by a mere private juristic act like adoptio, but only by a decree of the comitia curiata or later by imperial rescript. Arrogatio

Institutions

But these works were not adapted to the purposes of elementary instruction, and the writings of the ancient jurists were no longer allowed to have any authority, except so far as they had been incorporated in the

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