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Home Dictionary Name: mer or mereMer, or Mere
Mer, or Mere, a fenny place, or piece of water....
Guidon de la Mer
Guidon de la Mer, a treatise on maritime law, being a collection of existing usages and customs. It was probably written and issued for the first time towards the end of the sixteenth century, though the exact date is doubtful and the name of the compiler unknown. See Pardessus, vol. ii....
Mers eum
Mers eum, a lake; also a marsh or fenland....
Ouster le Mer
Ouster le Mer, beyond the sea; a cause of excuse, if a person, being summoned, did not appear in court. see SEAS, BEYOND....
mere descriptiveness
mere descriptiveness Statutory basis for refusing registration of trademarks and service marks because the proposed mark merely describes an ingredient, quality, characteristic, function, feature, purpose or use of the specified goods or services. With regard to trademark significance, matter may be categorized along a continuum, ranging from marks that are highly distinctive to matter that is a generic name for the goods or services. Source: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ...
En ventre sa mere
En ventre sa mere. [Fr. In its mother's womb.] A child in the womb of the mother is for most purposes regarded in English law as being already born. But there are certain important exceptions. For example, if a child is killed whilst it is within the womb, it cannot be the subject of a murder or manslaughter charge, but otherwise if it receives injuries whilst in the womb which occasion its death after birth, R. v. Senior, (1832) 1 Moo CC 346. In civil matters also the fiction of birth is only to be applied if the maintenance of the fiction is for the child's benefit and not its detriment, Villar v. Gilbey, 1907 AC 139, but it has lately been held by the House of Lords that the doctrine does not apply where a benefit is not destined directly to the child and is only for his indirect benefit, if any: Elliot v. Joicey (Lord), 1935 AC 209, and see LQR, January, 136, for a note on the case. Subject to the narrowing of the doctrine by Elliot v. Joicey, ubi. Sup., a liberal interpretation wi...
In ventre sa mere
In ventre sa mere (in his mother's womb). See EN VENTRE SA MERE....
Mere skill
Mere skill, the expression 'mere skill' would mean substantial degree or preponderance of skill, K.R. Lakshmanan v. State of Tamil Nadu, AIR 1996 SC 1153 (1162): (1996) 2 SCC 226. [Madras City Police Act (3 of 1988), s. 49A]...
in ventre sa mere
in ventre sa mere : in the womb : in utero ...
Consideration
Consideration. Any act of the promisee (the person claiming the benefit of an obligation) from which the promisor (the person burdened with the obligation) or a stranger derives a benefit or advantage, or any labour detriment or inconvenience sustained or suffered by the promisee at the request, express or implied, of the promisor. See Laythoarp v. Bryant, 3 Scott 250; 2 Wms. Saund 137 h; Currie v. Misa, (1875) LR 10 Exch 153.Consideration is one of the facts which the courts require as evidence of intention, (a) that a person intends his promise to be binding on him, or (b) that he intends to divest himself of a beneficial interest in property. In its widest sense consideration is the price, motive or inducement for a promise or for a transfer of property from one person to another. The nature or quality of the consideration which will be sufficient for these purposes varies with the nature of the transaction and in the absence of consideration the Courts will, except in the case of s...
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