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Reversal of judgment

Reversal of judgment. A judgment might have been reversed without a writ of error, for matters foreign to or dehors the record, i.e., not apparent upon the face of it, so that they could not be...

Blanks

Blanks a kind of white money (value 8d.) coined by Henry V., in those parts of France which were then subject to England; forbidden to be current in this realm by 2 Hen. 6, c. 9....

Voluntarily

Voluntarily, a person is said to cause an effect 'voluntarily' when he causes it by means whereby he intended to cause it, or by means which, at the time of employing those means, he knew or...

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True copy

True copy, a 'true copy' means a copy which is wholly and substantially the same as the original. Where therefore, there are insignificant or minimal mistakes, the court may not take notice thereof, Mithilesh Kumar Pandey...

Surname

Surname [fr. surnom, Fr.] It is a great dispute whether we should write surname or sirname; on the one hand, there are a thousand instances in Court rolls and other ancient muniments where the description of...

Succurritur minori: facilis est lapsus juventutis

Succurritur minori: facilis est lapsus juventutis. Jenk. Cent. 47, (A minor is assisted: a mistake of youth is easy.) See INFANT

Subject to such amendments as may thereafter

Subject to such amendments as may thereafter, the words 'subject to such amendments as may there-after' in s. 66 postulate that a list finalized before January 1 or April 1 is liable to be amended there-after...

Specific performance

Specific performance. Equity, in obedience to the cardinal rule of natural justice that a person should perform his agreement enforces, pursuant to a regulated and judicial discretion, the actual accomplishment of a thing stipulated for, on...

Restitutio in integrum

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 another, which they occupied before the contract was made, or...

Parol evidence

Parol evidence, testimony by the mouth of a witness. It is a general rule that oral evidence cannot be substituted for a written instrument, where the latter is required by law, or to give effect to...

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