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Co., (1914) 1 KB 622); '(b) in the case of a dramatic work, to convert it into a novel or other non-dramatic work; '(c) in the case of a novel or other non-dramatic work, or of an

Authentics

Authentics, a collection of the Novels of Justinian, made by an anonymous author. So called on account of its authority, Civil Law. There is

Pandect', or Digesta

third work; independent of both, it serves as an introduction to them, or as a manual. Lastly, the Novell' are single and subsequent additions or alterations, and it is merely an accidental circumstance that a third edition

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Post disseisin

Post disseisin, a writ that lay for him who, having recovered lands or tenements by force of novel disseisin, was again disseised by the former disseisor.

Writ

naming sixty abolished writs (e.g., the writ of right de rationabili parte, of quo jure, of assize of novel disseisin, of entry sur disseisin in the quibus, of waste, of partition, and of per qu' servitia. See

Wages

public policy as offending the principles of ancient Hindu Law and it was not possible to give a novel content to that doctrine in respect of gambling and wagering, Gherulal Parakh v. Mahadeodas Maiya, AIR 1959 SC

Uses

co-exist in this country-the ancient Common Law system, and the later invention, which is denominated USES. Thus a novel contrivance, which was at first a liberating expedient, became a gigantic system, which superseded the doctrines and practice

Equity

principles, to which it closely adheres; the judges, however, liberally expounding and developing them, in order to meet novel exigencies. While it aims to assist the defects of the Common Law, by extending relief to those rights

Occupavit

that lay for him who was ejected from his freehold in time of war, as the writ of novel disseisin lay for one disseised in time of peace. Means a writ to regain possession to land or

Obscene

but does not have the effect of depraving, debasing and corrupting the morals of any reader of the novel, whereas obscenity has the tendency to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences,

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