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Amotion

cause in Reg. v. Taylor, (1694) 3 Salk 231, where also a bye-law giving power to amove for just cause was held good; nor does there seem to be any means except amotion of getting rid of a

Essoin, Essoigne, Assoign

an action, or to perform suit to a Court-baron, etc., by reason of sickness or infirmity or other just cause of absence. The causes of excuse called essoins allowed in the King's Court were many. The principal essoin

Tort

to damage'. Same meaning attaches to it in law. In general, torts consist of some act done without just cause or excuse, Jay Laxmi Salt Works (P) Ltd. v. State of Gujarat, (1994) 4 SCC 1 (9). It

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Ubi lex aliquem cogit ostendere causam necesse est quod causa sit justa et legitima

Ubi lex aliquem cogit ostendere causam necesse est quod causa sit justa et legitima (2 Inst. 269), where the law compels a man to show cause, it is incumbent that

Petition of Right

execution, that his subjects may have no cause to complain of any wrongs and oppressions contrary to their just rights and liberties, the preservation whereof he holds himself in conscience obliged as of his own prerogative.' This

Swearing the peace

Swearing the peace, showing to a judge that one has just cause to be afraid of another in consequence of his menaces, in ordr to get him bound to keep

Articles of the peace

of the High Court, Court of Oyer and Terminer, or Court of Summary Jurisdiction, when any one has just cause to fear that some one will burn his house, do him some corporal hurt, or procure a third

Si quis

the parish where a candidate for Holy Orders resides, that 'if any one' (si quis) knows of any just cause for which he ought not to be admitted to Holy Orders, he is to declare the same or

Parentela

and in the presence of twelve men, who made oath that they believed it was done for a just cause. We read of it in the laws of Henry I. After such abjuration, the person was incapable of

Odio et atia

to the sheriff to inquire whether a man committed to prison upon suspicion of murder were committed on just cause of suspicion, or only upon malice and ill-will; and if, upon the inquisition, it was found that he

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