Multifariousness - Law Dictionary Search Results
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multifarious : having or occurring in great variety : diverse ;also : uniting usually in an improper way distinct and independent matters, subjects, or causes [point one is , and we must break it down for analysis: a) the alleged reformation of the decree; and b) the order that appellant pay "Spradley v. Hutchison, 787 S.W.2d 214 (1990)"] compare misjoinder mul·ti·far·i·ous·ness n ...
Multifariousness
Multifariousness. This, in a bill inequity, was the improperly joining in one bill distinct and independent matters, and thereby confounding them. For the former practice, see Story's Eq. Plead. 224; 1 Dan.Ch. Prac. 5th Edn., and 2 Wms. Saund. 295, c. See now JOINDER OF CAUSES OF ACTION....
Joinder of causes of action
Joinder of causes of action, coupling two or more matters in the same suit or proceeding.Under the (English) C.L.P. Act, 1852, s. 41, causes of action, of whatever kind, provided they were by and against the same parties and in the same rights, might be joined in the same suit; but this did not extend to repelling or ejectment; and where two or more of the causes of action so joined were local, and arose indifferent counties, the venue might be laid in either of such counties, but the court or a judge had power to prevent the trial of different causes of action together if such trial wound be inexpedient, and in such case such court or judge might order separate records to be made up, and separate trials to be had. The joinder in one bill in equity of distinct and independent matters, which was termed multifariousness, was a ground of objection to the bill. See MULTIFARIOUSNESS.By (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XVIII., the plaintiff may in many cases unite in the same action and the same ...
misjoinder
misjoinder : an incorrect joinder of claims or parties in a legal action ;also : an impermissible joinder of criminal charges or defendants compare duplicity, multifarious, multiplicity ...
Multifarious
Having multiplicity having great diversity or variety of various kinds diversified made up of many differing parts manifold...
Multifariously
With great multiplicity and diversity with variety of modes and relations...
Multifariousness
Multiplied diversity...
Plurifarious
Of many kinds or fashions multifarious...
Affairs of State
Affairs of State, Matter of public nature with which State is concerned. [Evidence Act (1 of 1872), s. 123]The expression 'affairs of State' in its ordinary significance is of the widest amplitude and will mean the entire business of State. It takes in the routine day-to-day administration and also highly confidential acts involving defence and foreign relations, and also in modern times the multifarious activities of a welfare State, State of Punjab v. Sodhi Sukhdev Singh, AIR 1961 SC 493 (529): (1961) 2 SCR 371. (Evidence Act, 1872, s. 123)...
Chancellor, Lord
Chancellor, Lord, properly, 'the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain' [fr. Cancellarius, low Lat., cancelli, Lat., latticework], the highest judicial functionary in the kingdom, and superior, in point of precedency, to every temporal lord. He is appointed by the delivery of the king's Great Seal into his custody. He may not be a Roman Catholic (10 Geo. 4, c. 7, s. 12). He is a cabinet minister, a privy councillor, and prolocutor of the House of Lords by prescription (but not necessarily, though usually, a peer of the realm), and vacates his office with the ministry by which he was appointed, but is entitled to a pension. When royal commissions are issued for opening the session, for giving the royal assent to bills, or for proroguing Parliament, the Lord Chancellor is always one of the commissioners, and reads the royal speech on the occasion. To him belongs the appointment of all justices of the peace throughout the kingdom, and the appointment and removal of county court judges (se...
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