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Tax
to be:- (1) The subjects of every State ought to contribute to the support of the Government as nearly as possible in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively
Tenure
copyholds, and therefore the term customary freeholds is not strictly correct; for although the tenants had an interest nearly as good as freehold, yet they had not a freehold interest. (3) Copyholds of base tenure were lands
Majestas
adversus securitatem ejus committitur.' He then gives various instances of the crime of majestas, some of which pretty nearly correspond to treason in English law; but all the offences included under majestas comprehend more than our term
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Judicial-economy exception
party may seek immediate appellate review of a non-final order if doing so might establish a final or nearly final disposition of the entire suit, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 851.
Snipe
Any one of numerous species of limicoline game birds of the family Scolopacidaelig having a long slender nearly straight beak
Dicast
Dicast [fr. dikasthV, Gk.], an officer in ancient Greece answering nearly to a juryman.
Action
6 SCC 103. [Karnataka Lokayukta Act, 1984 (4 of 1984), s. 2(1)] The term 'action' and 'suit' are nearly if not quite synonymous. But lawyers usually speak of proceedings in courts of law as 'action' and of
Bastard
respect was rejected by Parliament in 1235. See MERTON, STATUTE OF. The law of England remained thus for nearly 700 years, until the Legitimacy Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 60), legitimated a child born
Belg'
also of the city of Wells, in Somersetshire. Probably a Celtic tribe. The Romans, whom they resisted for nearly 100 years, included them indiscriminately among 'Germanic' populations.
Client
Loynes, (1854) 4 De GM & G 270; Wright v. Carter, 1903 (1) Ch 27. Among the Romans, nearly all citizens were comprehended into two classes--patron and client. Their relative rights and duties were as follows:--The patron
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