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Misconduct

is misconduct, see Pierce v. Foster, 17 QB 536 (542). A disregard of an essential condition of the contract of service may constitute misconduct, see Laws v. London Chronicle (Indicator Newspapers), (1959) 1 WLR 698. This view … in Stroud's Judicial Dictionary which runs as under: Misconduct means, misconduct arising from ill motive; acts of negligence, errors of judgment, or innocent mistake, do not constitute such misconduct. In industrial jurisprudence amongst others, habitual or gross

sound

exhibiting normal health b : free from flaw, defect, or decay [a design] 2 a : free from error, fallacy, or misapprehension [based on judicial reasoning] b : legally valid [a title] 3 : showing good judgment … : have a specified basis for an action used with in [those remedies for rent which ed in contract "O. W. Holmes, Jr."] [ing in tort]

New trial

matters foreign to or dethors the record, the only remedy the party injured by it has (except formerly error coram nobis or vobis in some few cases) is by applying to the Court for a new trial, … a new trial may be granted. They are all subject to the rule that in an action of contract, unless some right independent of the damages be in question, the amount in dispute must be 20l. at

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Extent

of office, shall affect any lands, tenements, or hereditaments as to pur-chasers or mortgagees, unless and until such memorandum or minute thereof, as in the Act provided, shall be registered as is therein provided; and provision is … his traverse or plea; if given for the defendant or claimant, it is an award of amoveas manus. Error will lie upon the judgment provided the Attorney-General consent to the proceeding. Where there was no judgment it

Stare decisis

by a court of competent jurisdiction authorised to construe it, such declaration, in absence of palpable mistake or error, is itself evidence of the law until changed by competent authority. It requires that rules of law when … which establish a doctrine plainly outside the statute and outside the common law, when no title and no contract will be shaken, no persons can complain, and no general course of dealing be altered by the remedy

Weights and measures

to verification and stamping of weights and measures, obliteration of stamps, application of tests of accuracy, limits of error to be allowed, 'and generally for the guidance of local authorities,' but adds that these regulations may confer … the case of a second offence 20l. [as amended by the W. and M. Act, 1889], and any contract, bargain, sale, or dealing made by the same shall be void, and the weight, measure, scale, balance, or

Restitutio in integrum

sense of the word, but absence owing to madness or imprisonment, and the like causes. The case of error. Mistake comprehends such error as cannot be imputed to blame; and in such a case a man could … Restitutio in integrum, the rescinding of a contract or transaction, so as to place the parties to it in the same position, with respect to one

Institutions

management of their affairs. Title VIII. speaks of Actions that may be brought against a master for an error committed by his slave. Title IX. of Actions to which the owner is liable for the hurt or … on Obligation is, and the causes producing a mixed Obligation--that is, partly natural and partly civil, as a contract, quasi-contract, crime or offence. Contracts made by words are called Stipulations, the general principles of which are first

Void

Void, 'the erosion of the distinction between juris-dictional errors and non-jurisdictional errors has, correspondingly eroded the distinction between void and voidable decision. The courts have become increasingly

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