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Venue
a jury are to come for trial of causes. See Co. Litt. 125 a, and Hargrave's note (2). Local actions must, before the Jud. Act, have been brought in the county in which the cause of action … could be changed without a special order of the Court or a judge, unless by consent of the parties, R.H.T. 1853, r. 18. It is, however, provided by (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XXXVI., r. 10, that there
Mandamus
in the nature of a public duty. A mandamus is available against any public authority including administrative and local bodies, and it would lie to any person who is under a duty imposed by statue or by … by public officers. It is a general rule that this writ is only to be issued where a party has no other specific remedy; and he must apply to the court without delay. the jurisdiction is altogether
Area
a house; (2) a district for particular purposes, as a school board area, a parliamentary electoral area, a local government district (see Part viii of the Public Health Act, 1875), a Poor Law Union of parishes, as … at the point of its greatest surface inclusive of the external walls and of such portions of the party walls as belong to the building. 'Area' means the area (including all the buildings, structures or other properties
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Deed
a sufficient discharge without any further receipt being endorsed on the deed. (9) Extrinsic formalities. Generally speaking, in localities where registration of titles is compulsory in regard to conveyances of land, including leases of land situate there … to preserve identity on the face of the title. A mistake will not vitiate the instrument if the party can be identified by extraneous evidence, Nihil facit error nominis cum de crpore constat. Every person who conveys
Chose
thing]; it is used in divers senses, of which the four following are the most important:-- (1) Chose local, a thing annexed to a place, as a mill, etc. (2) Chose transitory, that which is movable, and … Common Law was that no possibility, right, title, or thing in action, could be assigned to a third party, for it was thought that a different rule would be the occasion of multiplying litigation: as it would
Building Acts (English)
(which were public general Acts), and their amending enactments wee repealed and re-enacted with many amendments by the local and personal London Building Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. ccxiii.), and its amending Acts of 1898 … Building Act, par excellence, the (English) Fires Prevention (Metropolis) Act, 1774 (14 Geo. 3, c. 78), although otherwise partial and repealed, has two ss., 83 and 86, which are still in force and (it is submitted) of
Notice
Law of Property Act, 1925, registration under the (English) Land Charges Act,1925, at the Land Registry or any local registry according to the statutory requirements constitutes notice of the instrument or matter registered, but this relates only … Notice is either (1) statutory; (2) actual, which brings the knowledge of a fact directly home to the party; or (3) constructive or implied, which is no more than evidence of facts which raise such a strong
bill
a number of miscellaneous provisions or appropriations private bill : a bill affecting a particular person, organization, or locality as distinguished from all the people or the whole area of a political unit public bill : a … bill seeking to have a court decree set aside that is brought by someone who was not a party to the original suit usually before the decree is entered in the record compare bill of review in
Central Criminal Court
trial there would be 'expedient to the ends of justice''a provision generally put in force in cases of local prejudice against a person charged with crime of peculiar enormity. For mode of application for the order, see
will
assets, nationality, domicile, or residence of the testator NOTE: A properly executed international will is still subject to local probate laws; the validity deriving from adherence to statutory requirements for such wills is purely formal, and a … that share reciprocal provisions for the disposition of property in the event of death by one of the parties [a mutual will executed in connection with an agreement based on sufficient consideration is both contractual and testamentary
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