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Sanction and direction
Sanction and direction, an application of the mind is necessary, but there is this essential difference that in the one case there is a legal impediment to the prosecution if there be no sanction, and in...
Scandal
Scandal, a report or rumour, or an action whereby one is affronted in public. Disgraceful, shameful, or degrading acts or conducts, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1345. Scandal, in pleadings, is injurious, by making the...
Scienter
Scienter [Lat.] (knowingly, wilfully). In an action of deceit, the scienter must be averred and proved. In case of injury to cattle and sheep by dogs, the proof of scienter of ferociousness, necessary at Common Law...
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Searches
Searches, an essential feature in the acquisition of land sine registration under the (English) Land Charges Act, 1925, in the land or local registries of any incumbrance which is required to be registered under that Act...
Sovereignty
Sovereignty, means 'supremacy in respect of power, dominion or rank; supreme dominion authority or rule. Sovereignty is the right to govern. The term sovereignty as applied to states implies 'Supreme, absolute, uncontrollable power by which any...
Trial
Trial, does not exclude a proceeding relating to the delivery of judgment, Inayat v. Rex, AIR 1950 All 369: 1950 All LJ 127: 1950 All WR 245. Trial, is not necessary that the trial must be...
University
University, an association of learners, and of teachers and examiners of the learners, upon whose report the association grants upon whose report the association grants titles called 'degrees' (such as 'Master of Arts,' 'Doctor of Divinity'),...
Wills
Wills. A will is the valid disposition by a living person, to take effect after his death, of his disposable property. ''But in law ultima voluntas in scriptis is used, where lands or tenements are devised,...
Instigate
it is not necessary that actual words must be used to that effect or what constitutes instigation must necessarily and specifically be suggestive of the consequence. A word uttered in the fit of anger or emotion without
Interpretation Act, 1889 (English)
Interpretation Act, 1889 (English) (52 & 53 Vict. c. 63). A most important statute, repealing and re-enacting Lord Brougham's Act of 1850 (13 Vict. c. 21), 'for shortening the language used in Acts of Parliament' and...
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