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Lien

Sometimes a Court of Equity has decreed a sale as a part of its own system of remedial justice; and Courts of Admiralty have been constantly in the habit of decreeing a sale to satisfy maritime lines--such … Kong Magnus, 1891, P. 223, and that title. By the (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 56 (1) (b), causes for the sale and distribution of the proceeds of any property, subject to lien, are assigned to the

judgment

after 20 days following the commencement of the action. Summary judgment may be granted on all or on just part of a case. b : an obligation (as a debt) created by a decree of a court … : a judgment that is not final or absolute [after default and judgment nisi requiring them to show cause why it should not be made final "Code of Alabama"] judgment non ob·stan·te ve·re·dic·to [-nÄ n-əb-stan-tē-ver-ə-dik-tō, -nȯn-ȯb-stÄ n-tā-vā-rā-dēk-tō]

Injunction

i.e., provisional or temporary, until the coming in of the defendant's answer, or until the hearing of the cause; or (2) perpetual, i.e., forming part of a decree made at a hearing upon the merits, whereby the … 4 SCC 625. [Specific Relief Act, 1963, s. 41(b)] This is the discretionary process of preventive and remedial justice, whereby a person is required to refrain from doing a specified meditated wrong, not amounting to a crime.

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Law Reform (UK)

the contribution recoverable from any person shall be such as may be found by the Court to be just and equitable having regard to the extent of that person's responsibility for the damage; and the Court shall … Reform (UK). By the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 41), all causes of action shall with certain exceptions survive on the death (after the 24th July, 1934) of any person

Costs

wholly successful defendant of costs, see Ritter v. Godfrey, (1920) 2 KB 47. As to what constitutes 'good cause,' see Roberts v. Jones, (1891) 2 QB 194, and notes to abovementioned rule in Annual Practice. The general … 47, reproducing s. 11 of the County Courts, 1919, as amended by s. 20 of the Administration of Justice Act, 1925, which substituted a new s. 116 of the County Courts Act, 1888; the Slander of Women

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