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Debt

Debt [fr. debitum, Lat.], a sum of money due from one person to another. An action of debt lay where a person claimed the recovery of a liquidated or certain sum of money affirmed to be...

Conduct-money

Conduct-money, money paid to a witness for his travelling expenses. Testes qui postulat debet dare eis sumptus competentes. (He who requires witnesses must find their expenses to a sufficient extent.)-Reg. Jur. Civ. A witness whose expenses...

Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923

Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923 (English) (13 & 14 Geo. 5, cc. 9 and 25). By a series of statutes commencing with the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1875, statutory compensation has been provided for an outgoing agricultural tenant...

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Abstract of title

Abstract of title. A concise statement, usually prepared for a mortgagee or purchaser of real property, summarising the history of a piece of land including all conveyances interests, lines & encumbrances that reflect title to property,...

Finding

Finding, the word 'finding', will only cover material questions which arise in a particular case for decision by the authority hearing the case or the appeal which, being necessary for passing the final order or giving...

Obiter dictum

Obiter dictum, an opinion not necessary to a judgment. See DICTUM. An 'Obiter dictum' is an observation which is either not necessary for the decision of the case or does not relate to the material facts...

Preferred

Preferred, 'preferred' is a word of dual import; its semantics depend on the scheme and the context; its import must help, not hamper, the object of the enactment even if liberty win language may be necessary....

Permanent workman

Permanent workman, to be a permanent workman within the definition it is not necessary that the workman should be engaged throughout the year. What is necessary is that the work on which he is engaged is...

Partition

Partition, is mitakshara 'partition' may be only severance of the joint status of the members of the coparcenary, that it to say, what was once a joint title has become a divided title though there has...

Material facts and material particulars

Material facts and material particulars, all those facts which are essential to clothe the petitioner with a complete cause of action, are 'material facts' which must be pleaded, and failure to plead even a single material...

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