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Precisive

Cutting off Logic exactly limiting by cutting off all that is not absolutely relative to the purpose as precisive censure precisive abstraction

Beer

of beer to be drunk off the premises where sold, repealing pro tanto the Act of 1869, which limited the power to refuse such licenses to cases where the applicant or his house had been proved to

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Special defence

the plaintiff when he intends to rely on a defence of set-off or counterclaim, infancy, coverture, statute of limitations, bankruptcy, or equitable defence. for example, he must specially plead the Statute of Frauds, and if he fails

Passing off

the plaintiff gets a fresh cause of action to come to the court by appropriate proceedings, Bengal Waterproof Limited v. Bombay Waterproof Manufacturing Company, (1997) 1 SCC 99: AIR 1997 SC 1398: (1997) PTC 98 (SC): (1997)

Limitation of actions and prosecutions

Limitation of actions and prosecutions. By various statutes, of which the first was 21 Jac. 1, c. 16, the

benefit

damages for the taking. 2 in the civil law of Louisiana : a right esp. that serves to limit a person's liability benefit of dis·cus·sion : the right of a surety being sued to compel the suing

Consolidation of mortgages

of title having taken place, its application was manifestly unjust, and attempts were made by the Courts to limit its exercise. Finally, the right was abolished by s. 17 of the (English) Conveyancing Act, 1881, as replaced

Discontinuance

are concerned, not merely inconsequence of the abolition of fines, but by the effect of the Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27), which provides (s. 39) that no discontinuance shall thereafter

Constable

Constable [fr. Comes stabuli, Lat., in the eastern empire a superintendent of the imperial stables, or the emperor's master of the horse, who at length obtained the command of the army], an officer to whom our...

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