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revocation of a visa

revocation of a visa Cancellation of a visa. The visa is no longer good (valid) for travel to the United States. Source: Department of State. March 2007.

Fair comment

Fair comment. Fair comment on a matter of public interest is a good defence to an action of libel for words prima facie defamatory; but the defence will be of no

Simplex commendatio non obligat

Simplex commendatio non obligat. The mere re-commendation of goods by the seller imposes no liability upon him. See REPRESENTATION.

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Right of private defence

of defence, not a retribution. It is available in face of imminent peril to those who act in good faith and in no case can the right be conceded to a person who stage-manages a situation wherein

Pacta qu' contra leges constitutionesque vel contra bonos mores flunt nullam vim habere, indubitati juris est

is undoubted law that agreements have no force which are contrary to law or the constitutions, or to good morals.)

Orando pro rege et regno

writ which issued, while there was no standing collect for a sitting Parliament, to pray for peace and good government

Nulla bona

Nulla bona (in goods), a return made by a sheriff to a fi. fa., etc., when there is no property to levy

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on Crown lands; debt, for Crown moneys due upon breaches of penal statutes; and in rem, when any goods are supposed to become they property of the Crown, no one claiming them, as treasure-trove, wrecks, waifs, and

Date

to be inserted in deeds in the reigns of Edward II. and Edward III. A deed, however, is good, although it mentions no date, or has a false or impossible date, provided the real date of its

Extinguishment

person have a yearly rent out of lands, and afterwards purchase those lands, so that he has as good an estate in the land as in the rent, the rent is extinguished; for no one can have

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