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Mesne profits, action of
the true owner as compensation for the tort which he has committed. A claim for rent is therefore liquidated, while a claim for mesne profits is always unliquidated' (Odgerson Pleading). The action should be brought in the … recovery in ejectment. The jury are not bound by the amount of the rent, but may give extra damages. But ground-rent paid by the defendant should be deducted from the damages. A plaintiff may recover in this
Unliquidated damages
Matched in: Term Unliquidated damages
Covenant, writ of
of covenant,superseded by the action of covenant where the damages were unliquidated and by the actionof debt where liquidated; both of these forms of action havenow been abolished. See ACTIONS and preceding title.
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Lien
contract. (2) The debts or claims to which a lien properly attaches. It attaches only to certain and liquidated demands, and not to those which sound only in damages, and can be ascertained only through the intervention
Debate
A Dictionary of Law, Willium C. Anderson, 1889, p. 315. Is a sum payable in respect of a liquidated money demand recoverable by action, Stroud's Dictionary of Law, p. 612 When the debate on any motion becomes … Debate, is a sum of money reduced to a certainty and does not include a claim for uncertain damages, A Dictionary of Law, Willium C. Anderson, 1889, p. 315. Is a sum payable in respect of a
Leave to defend
rent, it is provided that in all actions where the plaintiff seeks merely to recover a debt or liquidated demand (see QUANTUM MERUIT) in money, or possession where a tenancy has expired or been determined by notice … stating that in his belief there is no defence to the action except as to the amount of damages claimed, if any, apply to a judge for liberty to enter judgment for such remedy or relief or
Intoxicating liquor
only cover alcoholic liquor which is generally used for beverage purposes wand produce intoxication but would also include liquids containing alcohol, State of U.P. v. Synthetics and Chemicals Ltd., AIR 1980 SC 614: (1980) 2 SCR 531: … licences and other existing on-licences is drawn by the Act: the renewal of them cannot be refused without compensation on the grounds of structural deficiency or unsuitability, as can the renewal of other existing on-licences. In the
Mortgage
loan of money or credit effected, in order to secure either the repayment of the one or the liquidation of the other. the debtor, or borrower, is then the mortgagor, who has charged or transferred his property … rents and profits, may sue for such possession, or such rents and profits, or to prevent or recover damage for any wrong thereto, in his own name only, (English) Jud. Act, 1873, s. 25 (5) (now Jud.
Fieri facias
judicial writ of execution, the most commonly used that lies for him who has recovered any debt or damages in the King's Courts. It is a command to the sheriff, that of the goods and chattels of … selling goods under an execution, see (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1914, s. 40 et seq, and as against the liquidator under a winding-up, see s. 268 et seq., (English) Companies Act, 1929. The sheriff, however, must satisfy the
Falsification
c. 35), s. 24 (Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Conveyancing'), and the falsifier is also liable to an action for damages by the same enactment. The fiat of the Attorney-General is required before comm-encing a prosecution. [(English) L.P. Act, … Comp. Act, 1908 (as to which see Re London and Globe Financial Corporation, (1903) 1 Ch 728], authorized liquidators to prosecute by direction of the High Court in the event of a winding-up. This s. has been
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