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Hearing
than witness, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 725. Word hearing can admit of a very wide and liberal interpretation. It may include recording of evidence, consideration of arguments on some aspect of suit, examination of various
Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum
the most celebrated prerogative writ in the English law, is a remedy for a person deprived of his liberty. It is addressed to him who detains another in custody, and commands him to produce the body, with
Folc-land
servants, and those who had charge of their hawks, horses, and bounds. From these burthens the lands were liberated when converted by charter into bocland. See Allen's Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Royal Prerogative
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Feed
the legal estate 'feeds the estoppel' and the legal estate vests in B.; see General Finance Co. v. Liberator Building Society, (1878) 10 Ch D 20; Doe v. Oliver, (1829) 5 Man. & Ry. 202.
Executory trusts
intention of the testator in the other, will attach to the words expressive of the trusts a more liberal and enlarged construction than they would admit if applied either to the limitation of a legal estate or
Equity
and founded upon defined rules, recorded precedents, and established principles, to which it closely adheres; the judges, however, liberally expounding and developing them, in order to meet novel exigencies. While it aims to assist the defects of
En ventre sa mere
note on the case. Subject to the narrowing of the doctrine by Elliot v. Joicey, ubi. Sup., a liberal interpretation will be put on the word 'born' in a will [Re Salaman, (1908) 1 Ch 4], and
Interpretatio chartarum beingne facienda est ut res magis valeat quam pereat
facienda est ut res magis valeat quam pereat [Lat.], the construction of a deed is to be made liberally, that the thing may rather avail than perish.
Dare
an equivalent, to create an obligation, it is datio contrahendi animo; lastly, when made donandi animo, from mere liberality, it is a gift, dono datio, Civil Law.
International Law
yield to them, giving them effect, as the phrase is, sub mutu' vicissitudinis obtentu, with a wise and liberal regard to common convenience and mutual benefits and necessities. The first and most general maxim stated in international
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