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Foreign judgment

Foreign judgment, it is a well established pro-position in Private International law that unless a foreign Court has jurisdiction in the international sense, a judgment delivered by that Court would not be recognised or enforceable in...

Misprision

Misprision [fr. mepris, Fr.], neglect, negligence, or oversight. All such high offences as are under the degree of capital, but nearly bordering thereon, are misprisions; and it is said that a misprision is contained in every...

Messuage

Messuage [fr. messuagium, Law Lat., formed perhaps fr. mesnage, by mistake of the n, in court hand, for u, they being written alike; or fr. maison, Fr.], a dwelling-house with its outbuildings and curtilage and some...

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Lots

Lots. Parcels of land under one ownership put up separately at one sale. By s. 45 (5) of the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, it is an implied condition of the sale that a purchaser...

Judicial control

Judicial control, means a doctrine by which a court can deny cancellation of a lease if the lessee's breach is of minor importance, is not caused by the lessee, or is based on a good-faith mistake...

Judge

Judge [fr. juge, Fr.; judex, Lat.], one invested with authority to determine any cause or question in a Court of judicature. The word 'judge' denotes not only every person who is officially designated as a judge...

House of Lords

House of Lords, a constituent part of Parliament, being composed of the lords spiritual and temporal. The upper chambers of British parliament, of which the 11 member judicial committee provides judge who serve as the final...

Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus

Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus [Lat.] False in one, false in all. This maxim may properly be applied in those cases only where a witness speaks to a fact with reference to which he cannot...

Condictio indebiti

Condictio indebiti, an action for the recovery of a sum of money or other thing paid by mistake, Civil Law.

Errors excepted

Errors excepted, a phrase appended to an account stated, in order to excuse slight mistakes or oversights. Accounts are commonly signed with the addition E. and O.E.-'Errors and omissions excepted.'

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