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Charitable uses and trusts
Charitable uses and trusts. 9 Geo. 2, c. 26, commonly called 'The Mortmain Act,' 1735, after reciting that ifts or alienations of land in mortmain (see MORTMAIN) were prohibited by Magna Charta and other whole-some laws...
Chinese walls
Chinese walls, an effective Chinese wall needs to be an established part of the organizational structure of the firm, not created ad hoc and dependent on the acceptance of evidence sworn for the purpose by members...
Circuity of action
Circuity of action, a longer course of proceeding to recover a thing sued for than is needful--Terms de la Ley; also a general term denoting inter alia a multiplicity of law suits. Wherever the rights of...
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Cloth
Cloth. By 12 Edw. 3, c. 3, no cloth made beyond sea might be brought into the kingdom on paint of forfeiture of the goods and punishment of the importer. Going by the meaning given in...
Common carrier
Common carrier, the question in any particular case whether the carrier was a common carrier or a private carrier has therefore to be decided on the ascertainment of what he publicly professes. This profession, it need...
Judicial
Judicial, 'judicial' extends 'to the acts and orders of a competent authority which has power to impose a liability or to give a decision which determines the rights or property of the affected parties'. 'Judicial' embraces...
Common prostitute
Common prostitute, includes a woman who offers her body for purposes amounting to common lewdness in return for payment, there need not be an act of ordinary sexual intercourse, R. v. De Munck, (1918) 1 KB...
Commutative justice and distributive justice
Commutative justice and distributive justice, Aristotle's doctrine of justice of equality is called by him commutative justice which requires at least two persons while distributive justice requires at least three. Relative equality in treating different persons...
Competent authority
Competent authority, means (i) the speaker in the case of the House of the people or the legislative Assembly of a State or a Union Territory having such Assembly and the Chairman in case of the...
Contestatio litis eget terminos contradictarious
Contestatio litis eget terminos contradictarious. Jenk. Cent. 117.-(The joinder of issue in a suit needs contradictory terms.)
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Charitable uses and trusts
Charitable uses and trusts. 9 Geo. 2, c. 26, commonly called 'The Mortmain Act,' 1735, after reciting that ifts or alienations of land in mortmain (see MORTMAIN) were prohibited by Magna Charta and other whole-some laws...
Chinese walls
Chinese walls, an effective Chinese wall needs to be an established part of the organizational structure of the firm, not created ad hoc and dependent on the acceptance of evidence sworn for the purpose by members...
Circuity of action
Circuity of action, a longer course of proceeding to recover a thing sued for than is needful--Terms de la Ley; also a general term denoting inter alia a multiplicity of law suits. Wherever the rights of...
Keep your definitions linked to case research
Cloth
Cloth. By 12 Edw. 3, c. 3, no cloth made beyond sea might be brought into the kingdom on paint of forfeiture of the goods and punishment of the importer. Going by the meaning given in...
Common carrier
Common carrier, the question in any particular case whether the carrier was a common carrier or a private carrier has therefore to be decided on the ascertainment of what he publicly professes. This profession, it need...
Judicial
Judicial, 'judicial' extends 'to the acts and orders of a competent authority which has power to impose a liability or to give a decision which determines the rights or property of the affected parties'. 'Judicial' embraces...
Common prostitute
Common prostitute, includes a woman who offers her body for purposes amounting to common lewdness in return for payment, there need not be an act of ordinary sexual intercourse, R. v. De Munck, (1918) 1 KB...
Commutative justice and distributive justice
Commutative justice and distributive justice, Aristotle's doctrine of justice of equality is called by him commutative justice which requires at least two persons while distributive justice requires at least three. Relative equality in treating different persons...
Competent authority
Competent authority, means (i) the speaker in the case of the House of the people or the legislative Assembly of a State or a Union Territory having such Assembly and the Chairman in case of the...
Contestatio litis eget terminos contradictarious
Contestatio litis eget terminos contradictarious. Jenk. Cent. 117.-(The joinder of issue in a suit needs contradictory terms.)
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