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Menhir

A large stone set upright in olden times as a memorial or monument Many of unknown date are found in Brittany and throughout Northern Europe...

Saga

A Scandinavian legend or heroic or mythic tradition among the Norsemen and kindred people a northern European popular historical or religious tale of olden time...

Action, conduct, something done; also the form prescribed by Law for the recovery of one's due, or the lawful demand of one's right. Bracton (Bk. 3, cap. 1) defines it:-Actio nihil aliud est quam jus prosequendi in judicio quod alicui debetur.-(An action is nothing else than the right of suing in a court of justice for that which is due to some one.) Actions are divided into criminal and civil: criminal actions are more properly called prosecutions, and perhaps actions penal, to recover some penalty under statute, are properly criminal actions. There were formerly three classes of actions in England: personal actions, in which the plaintiff sought to recover a debt or damages from the defendant; real actions, in which he sought to establish his title to land or other hereditaments; mixed actions, in which he sought only to establish his right to possession of land. All forms of action are now abolished, but there still inevitably remains the distinction between actions in personam brou...

Danga puratan patit

Danga puratan patit, 'danga Puratan Patit' means 'high arable land which was fallow since olden days', Jugal Kishore Mandal v. Rani Bhushan Kundu, AIR 1973 SC 2341 (2343)....

Hedge-priest

Hedge-priest, a vagabond priest in olden time....

Magna Carta

Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III and Edward I later confirmed. It is generally regarded as one of the great common-law documents and as the foundation of constitution liberties. The other three great charters of English Liberty are the Petition of Right (3 Car. (1628)), the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2 (1679)), and the Bill of Rights (1 Will. SM. (1689)). Also spelled Magna charta, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 963.This Great Charter is based substantially upon the Saxon Common Law, which flourished in this kingdom until the Normaninvasion consolidated the system of feudality, still the great characteristic of the principles of real property. The barons assembled at St.Edmund's Bury, in Suffolk, in the later part of the year 1214, and there solemnly swore upon the high alter to withdraw their allegiance from the Crown, and openly rebel, unless King John confirmed by a formal charter the ancient li...

Puis darrein continuance, plea of

Puis darrein continuance, plea of. In olden times, when the pleadings were each entered separately on the record, every entry after the first was called a continuance. When the matter of defence arose after writ, but before plea or continuance, it was said to be pleaded 'to the further maintenance' of the action. When it arose after plea or continuance it was called a plea of puis darrien continuance--since the last continuance; see 1 H&C 797 (Odgers on Pleading, 7th Edn., p. 232).'Pleading after action' is now regulated by Order XXIV. Of the Rules of the Supreme Court....

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