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Civic nature

Civic nature, Mr. Patchotte -- Joyce, submits that such a construction is impossibly wide because any orgainsation which does not have … relationship of citizens, not among themselves, but with the state of which they are citizens, Expert Witness Institute v. Customs Comrs. (CA), (2002) 1 WLR 1674. Meant aims which were dignified as distinct from efficient, Expert Witness

Right and legal right

seek its protection against a person who is bound by a corresponding duty not to violate that right, Mr. X v. Hospital Z, AIR 1999 SC 495 (499): (1998) 8 SCC 296

Contempt of court

25l. costs for contempt in very insultingly and intemperately criticizing in the Birmingham Daily Argus a warning of Mr. Justice Darling at the Stafford Assizes to the Press not to publish a report of a trial for … and out of Court. Among the former are all unseemly behaviour (for which, and which only (see Reg. v. Lefroy, (1873) LR 8 QB 134), there is an express power to punish by s. 162 of the

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Code

A Criminal Code (Indictable Offences) Bills was submitted to Parliament in 1878. This Bill, which was drawn by Mr. Justice Stephen when at the Bar, was referred to a Royal Commission. After the Report of the Commissioners … under his administration are sometimes confusedly designated by the name of the Code Napoleon, Life of Napoleon, by Vieusseux; Myer's Esprit des Institutions Judiciaries. There are English translations of the Code Civil by H. Cachard (1895), and

Wreck

generally, see 1 Bl. Com. 291; Williams on Rights of Common, p. 289; Co. Litt. 261 a, and Mr. Hargrave's note. Goods cast ashore from a wrecked vessel and not claimed by owner within a specified period, … such goods, including the ship or cargo or any part [(English) Merchant Shipping act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60], ss. 518 to 522, and Hals. L. E., sub tit. 'Shipping'; Part XII., 'Wreck,'), as, after

Customary freeholds

Duke of Portland v. Hill, (1866) LR 2 Eq. 765; Eardley v. Granville, (1876) 3 Ch D 826. Mr. Cruise divides customary freeholds into two kinds: (1) those of which the freehold is in the lord, more

Value

phrase which no amount of authority that can be quoted for it can make other than bad English. Mr. De Quincey substitutes the term 'exchange value,' which is unexceptionable, 1 Mill's Pol. Econ. 528, 578. The word … Value, a relative term. The value of a thing may refer to a certain standard with which the thing

Free-board, or freebord

sixteen feet and a half round Richmond Park in Surrey; In 'Shakespeare, His Family and Friends,' p. 141, Mr. Elton, Q.C., says: 'At Stratford there was another kind of boundary called 'free-boards,' as mentioned in the (English) … Free-board, or freebord. The precise nature of free-board is not very clear, but it may be described as denoting certain rights enjoyed by the owner of an ancient park

Pardon

the judgment would be reversed and a similar suggestion was made by the Committee appointed in 1904 by Mr. Secretary Akers-Douglas to inquire into the circumstances of the two convictions of offences (for which he had been … F. Pollock, A.-G., that when the Crown pardons any adjudged guilty on the ground that the evidence rightly viewed does not warrant the judgment, the prisoner should assign and the Attorney-General should confess error on the record,

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