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Wages

Hindu Law and it was not possible to give a novel content to that doctrine in respect of gambling and wagering,

Uses

and the later invention, which is denominated USES. Thus a novel contrivance, which was at first a liberating expedient, became a

Post disseisin

him who, having recovered lands or tenements by force of novel disseisin, was again disseised by the former disseisor.

Occupavit

his freehold in time of war, as the writ of novel disseisin lay for one disseised in time of peace. Means

Obscene

debasing and corrupting the morals of any reader of the novel, whereas obscenity has the tendency to deprave and corrupt those

Equity

however, liberally expounding and developing them, in order to meet novel exigencies. While it aims to assist the defects of the

Nisi prius

Magna Charta, in ease of the subject, that assizes of novel disseisin and mort-ancestor (which were the most common remedies of

Constitution

regulation made by the authority of any superior; as the Novel Constitutions of Justinian and his successors; the Constitutions of Clarendon;

Action of possessory

the plaintiff had been seised of the land claimed, e.g. novel disseisin as opposed to action ancestral, where the claim was

Romance

Gaul hence any fictitious and wonderful tale a sort of novel especially one which treats of surprising adventures usually befalling a

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