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Special jury
Special Jury.--The party upon whose application the special jury is truck bears all the expenses occasioned at the trial of the cause by the special jury, and is not allowed any more costs than for a common
Notice to quit
such tenancy is a chattel interest, and whatever chattel the deceased had must vest in them as his legal representatives. Where the reversion has been conveyed by the less or during the existence of the tenancy from
Piracy
news from another newspaper, see Walter v. Steinkopff, (1892) 3 Ch 489. The remedies for piracy are an action at law for damages, and an injunction to restrain its continuance. See INJUNCTION and COPYRIGHT.
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lien
a debtor by a creditor upon obtaining a favorable judgment judicial lien : a lien obtained by a legal or equitable process (as judgment, levy, attachment, or execution) ju·nior lien : a lien that is lower in
Fraud
inducement to wrong, certain transactions are held to be fradulent, as contrary to general policy, or to fixed legal principles; as marriage-brokerage bonds, and contracts in restraint of trade. Other transactions again, growing out of a special
Personal property
tenancy in common may subsist in the case of personal property, though now tenancy in common of any legal estate in land, including leaseholds or other interests in land, has been abolished [(English) (Law of Property Act,
Desertion
excuse' if in consequence he refuses to live with her, Synge v. Synge, 1901, P. 317. In Scotland, malicious desertion by one spouse of the other for four years is a ground of divorce. It must be … 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 pp. 241 to 243 of Halsbury's Laws
Estoppel
upon the point adjudged, but not upon any matter collateral or adjudged by inference, A judgment in an action in rem is absolutely binding upon all the world. A conviction on the same facts is no estoppel
Judge
officially designated as a judge but also every person who is empowered by law to give, in any legal proceeding, civil or criminal, definitive judgment, or a judgment which, if not appealed against, would be definitive, or
Amendment
Amendment, a correction of any errors in the writ or pleadings in actions, suits, or prosecutions. The power of allowing amendments has been much extended by modern statutes and rules, but it will not
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