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Plaint

cause of action: and the judge is bound, of common right, to administer justice therein without a special mandate from the Crown. Plaint, includes a written statement pleading, a set off or counter-claim. [The Gujarat Court-fees Act,

Peremptory mandamus

Peremptory mandamus, a second mandamus, which issues where the return which has been made to the first writ is found either insufficient in law or false in fact. To this writ no other return will be...

Non implacitando aliquem de liberto tenemento sine brevi

Non implacitando aliquem de liberto tenemento sine brevi, a writ to prohibit bailiffs, etc., from distraining or impleading any man touching his freehold without the king's writ, e.g. Brev. 171. Obsolete.

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Negotiorum gestor

acts wholly without authority, there can, strictly speaking, be no contract. But the Roman Law raised a quasi mandate, by implication, for the benefit of the owner in many of such cases. Nor is an implication of

Ne injuste vexes

Ne injuste vexes, a writ founded on Magna Charta that lay for a tenant distrained by his lord, for more services than he ought to perform; and it was a prohibition to the lord unjustly to...

Ne admittas

Ne admittas (that you admit not), a prohibitory writ directed to the bishop at the request of the plaintiff or defendant, where a quare impedit is depending, when either party fears that the bishop will admit...

Quo minus

Quo minus, a writ which lay for him who had a grant of house-bote and hay-bote in another's woods against the grantor making such waste whereby the grantee could the less enjoy his grant, Old N.B....

Questus est nobis

Questus est nobis, a writ of nuisance which, by 15 Edw. 1, lay against him to whom a house or other thing that caused a nuisance descended or was alienated; whereas before that statute the action...

Summons

Summons [fr. the writ called summoneas--Pegge's Anecd. Of the Eng. Lang., 2nd Edn. 173], a call of authority, admonition to appear in court, a citation. 1. To commence Action in High Court, By R.S.C. Ord. II.,...

Quo warranto

Quo warranto, a writ issuable out of the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, in the nature of a writ of right for the Crown against him who claims or usurps any office,...

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