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Parties

of either party, and on such terms as may appear to the court or a judge to be just, order that the names of any parties, whether as plaintiffs or as defendants, improperly joined, be struck out,

Jure natur' 'qum est neminem cum alterius detrimento et injuria fieri locupletiorem

neminem cum alterius detrimento et injuria fieri locupletiorem. D. 50, 17, 206.-(By the law of nature it is just that no one should be enriched by the detriment or injury of another.)

Fair

1100), ITC Ltd. v. Agricultural Produce Market Committee, (2002) 9 SCC 232 (294): AIR 2002 SC 852. Impartial; just equitable; disinterested; Free of bias or prejudica; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 615.

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Interdict, Interdiction

or quasi-possession, and were nearly equivalent to our writ of injunction. For a division of them, see Sand. Just. Also, in Scots Law, an injunction

Fidei-commissum

time of Hadriam, such fidei-commissa were ultimately assimilated to legacies, Gaius, ii. 247-289; Ulp. Frag. tit. 25; Sand. Just. An arrangement similar to a trust by which a testator gave property to a person for the benefit

Equitable distribution

which is fair', and to Corpus Juris Secundum to show that equitable is that which is done 'fairly, justly and impartially'. It cannot be doubted that only that distribution can be said to be 'equitable' which is

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

Executor de son tort.

to act as executor or administrator (see 14 Halsbury's L. of E., 2nd Edn., para. 282), without any just authority (as by intermeddling with the goods of the deceased, and any other transactions), he is called in

Exemption, permission

leave to do some act which but for the leave would be illegal. In this sense, exemption is just one way of giving leave, Dharrajamal Gobindram v. Sharmji Kalidas, AIR 1961 SC 1285 (1290). [Foreign Exchange Regulation

Exheredatio

a child by his father from the inheritance of any part of the estate, Civil Law. See Sand. Just.

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