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Scrimp

To make too small or short to limit or straiten to put on short allowance to scant to contract to

Costs

party gets his costs, The Ophelia, (1911) 46; Cooper v. Whittingham, (1880) 15 CD 501. A plaintiff who makes several distinct claims in an action may be ordered to pay the defendant's costs of the issues upon … his client, whether he ultimately succeed or not; or between party and party, being those only which are allowed in some particular cases to the party succeeding against his adversary, and these are either interlocutory, given on

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Oath

belief, or that the taking of an oath is contrary to his religious belief, shall be permitted to make his solemn affirmation instead of taking an oath in all places and for all purposes where an oath … QBD 38, and in Mr. Bradlaugh's case the House of Commons, when he was first elected, refused to allow him to make oath, so that he could not take his seat; but Mr. Bradlaugh, on being reelected

Affirmation

Affirmation, a solemn declaration without oath; the being allowed to make it was an indulgence at first confined to the people called Quakers, and Moravians (9 Geo. 4, c. … Affirmation, a solemn declaration without oath; the being allowed to make it was an indulgence at first confined to the people called Quakers, and Moravians (9 Geo.

Trust

either directly or indirectly: To create a trust by a direct or formal declaration, a person need only make his meaning clear as to the interest he intends to give, having regard as a rule to the … the unrepealed s. 8 of the (English) Trustee Act, 1888, by which trustees, as a general rule, are allowed [see Re Somerset, (1894) 1 Ch 231; Howe v. Earl Winterton, (1896) 2 Ch 626], except in case

Public policy

fixed or customary law; they are capable on proper occasions of expansion and modification, Circumstances may change and make a commercial practice expedient which was formerly mischievous to commerce, Mafizuddin Khan Choudhry v. Habibundin Sheikh, AIR 1951 … policy, demands that where fraud might have been contemplated but was not perpetrated, the defendants should not be allowed to perpetrate a new fraud. If the illegality of the transaction is trivial or venial and the plaintiff

Desertion

the consent of the other spouse; but the physical act of departure by one spouse does not necessarily make that spouse the deserting party. The legal position has been admirably summarized in paras 453 and 454 at … who actually withdraws from cohabitation is not necessarily the deserting party. The fact that a husband makes an allowance to a wife whom he has abandoned is no answer to a charge of desertion. The offence of

bad debt expense

are "bad debts." A "bad debt expense" account is an expense account of your company. A typical company makes an estimate as to how much it has in bad debts on a periodic (usually monthly) basis. For

Explanation

v. State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1981 SC 1274 (1282). In British Parliament a member is allowed to make personal explanation with the prior permission of the speaker in respect of his conduct or alleged misrepresentation in … Sonia Bhatia v. State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1981 SC 1274 (1282). In British Parliament a member is allowed to make personal explanation with the prior permission of the speaker in respect of his conduct or alleged

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