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Accola

husbandman who comes from some other country to till the land, and is thus distinguished from incola:-- 'Accola non propriam, propriam colit incola terram' (Accola is one who does not till his own land, incola one who

Ad medium filum vi' (aqu')

in the centre of a road or river. The soil of a highway, and the bed of a non-tidal river, are presumed to belong to the owners of the adjacent lands usque ad medium filum vi', or

Asphyxia

Asphyxia, [fr. a not, and, Gk., pulse], suspended animation, produced by the non-conversion of the venous blood of the lungs into arterial, Dunglison

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Any other sum chargeable under the provisions of this Act

sum chargeable under the provisions of this Act, would not include cases where any sum payable to the non-resident is a trading receipt which may or may not include 'pure income', Transmission Corporation of Andhra Pradesh Ltd.

Arrestment jurisdictionis fundand' causa

Arrestment jurisdictionis fundand' causa. In Scotland, if a non-Scots Defender is not subject to the jurisdiction of the Court in any other way, but has some movable

Army school

Army school, is a school established for the purpose of affording education to children of Non-Commissioned Officers and men of Her Majesty's regular land forces and conducted under the authority of a Secretary of

Arbitrarily

fixed or done capriciously or at pleasure, without adequate determining principle, not founded in the nature of things, non-rational, not done or acting according to reason or judgment, depending on the Will alone, Sharma Transport v. Govt

Approbate and reprobate

advantage of one part of a document and rejects the rest, Scots Law. The maxim runs, Qui approbat non reprobat: One who approbates cannot reprobate. The doctrine is the same as the English law of election, Douglas-Menzies

Apportionment

of the apportioned rent allotted to him, be entitled to the benefit of all conditions of re-entry for non-payment of the original rent, and the Conveyancing Act, 1881, s. 12, applies the principle of this enactment in

Appeal, Court of (U.K.)

from jury cases, see Mechanical etc. Co. Ltd. v. Austin Motor Co. Ltd., 1935 AC 346; and from non-jury cases, Powell v. Streatham Manor Nursing Home, 1935 AC 243. As to restrictions on appeals, see s. 31.

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