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Open Law

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Open contract

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opening statements

opening statements before the evidence is presented in a trial, lawyers' presentations to the jury summarizing what they intend … opening statements before the evidence is presented in a trial, lawyers' presentations to the jury summarizing what they intend to present as evidence. Opening statements, like closing arguments, are

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open fields doctrine

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Consideration

or by damages for breach or any other remedy or defence in law, but the claim is always open to any defences arising out of want of any consideration in factor otherwise available to the covenant or

Sunday

The (English) Hairdressers and Barbers Shops (Sunday Closing) Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 35), prohibits opening on Sundays (Jewish hairdressers may open on Sunday but must close on Saturday). The (English) Shops (Sunday Trading … effected on this day; and bail can arrest their principal, and a sergeant-at-arms can apprehend; but no other law proceedings can be taken. By the Sunday Observance Act, 1677, it is enacted that:- No tradesmen, artificers, workmen,

Open space

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Solicitor

of Solicitors' in the Law Society as Registrar of Solicitors, and provide that such Roll is to be open to public inspection without any fee. S. 16 provides for the registration of Articles of clerkship, and s.

Account or Accompt

receipts (credits) and disbursements (debits) of money-which have taken place between two or more persons. Accounts are either-(1) open, where the balance is not struck, or it is not accepted by all the parties; (2) stated, where … outside Great Britain and established there; s. 347 ibid. As to the ancient action of account at Common Law, see. 3 Steph. Com., 9th ed. 451, and Bac. Ab. 'Account.' Prior to the (English) Judicature Act, 1873,

Breaking bulk

the Cyclopedic Law Dictionary, 3rd edn. 'breaking bulk' has been stated to mean that for a bailee to open a box or packaging entrusted to his custody and fraudulently appropriate its contents, HMM Ltd. v. Administrator, Bangalore

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