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Home Dictionary Name: multiplicity Page: 3Peace, Bill of
Peace, Bill of. This equitable remedy sought repose from perpetual and needless litigation, and protection from a multiplicity of suits, either by establishing and perpetuating a right which the plaintiff claimed and which, from its nature, might be controverted by different persons at different times and by different actions; or where separate attempts had already been unsuccessfully made to overthrow the same right, and justice required that the plaintiff should be quieted in the right if it was already, or if it should be thereafter, established under the direction of the Court. See Sheffield Waterworks v. Yeoman, (1866) LR 2 Ch 8; Kerr on Injunctions.The results obtained by this bill would now generally be obtained by an action in the High Court for a declaration of title and an injunction. See A.P. notes to (English) R.S.C., Ord. XXV., r. 4....
Polyphony
Multiplicity of sounds as in the reverberations of an echo...
Prerogative of mercy
Prerogative of mercy. In early times the operation of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy was far wider than at the present day, as it was not only extended to some persons who in later ages would not be considered to have incurred any criminal respon-sibility, e.g., persons who had committed homicide by misadventure or in self-defence (Pollock and Maitland's Hist. Engl. Law, vol. ii., pp. 476 et seq.), but was even extended to jurors who had been attained for an oath that, though not false, was fatuous: ibid. p. 661. The power of pardoning offences is stated by Blackstone to be one of the great advantages of monarchy in general above every other form of government, and which cannot subsist in democracies. Its utility and necessity are defended by him on all those principles which do honour to human nature: see 4 Bl. Com. c. 31, p. 397. In early times, again, there were fewer offences that did not admit of being pardoned. In appeals (i.e., private accusations of felony) which were not the s...
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 ...
Manifoldness
Multiplicity...
Multeity
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...
Polyphonic
Having a multiplicity of sounds...
multiplicitous
multiplicitous : giving rise to or resulting from multiplicity [a indictment] [they are not charges] ...
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