Oppression - Law Dictionary Search Results
Cheaters or escheators
officers appointed to look after the king's escheats, a duty which gave them great opportunities of fraud and oppression, and in consequence many complaints were made of their misconduct. Hence it seems that a cheater came to
Duress
agency as to justify the Court in setting aside a contract made by him on account of some oppression or fradulent advantage, or imposition, attendant upon it. See Scott v. Sebright, (1886) 12 PD 21, in which
Extortion
Extortion [fr. extorqueo, Lat., to wrest away], any oppression under colour of right, as the demanding of a more than legal fee by colour of office. See
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Patience
patient the power of suffering with fortitude uncomplaining endurance of evils or wrongs as toil pain poverty insult oppression calamity etc
Forest Courts
thrice in every year, the sweins or freeholders within the forest composing the jury. It inquired into the oppressions and grievances committed by the officers of the forest, and tied presentments certified from the Court of attachments
Has been registered and possesses a registration certificate
accord with the general tenor of the section as a whole, and in a manner which would avoid oppressive, unreasonable and anomalous results. Assessing Authority v.. Patiala Biscuits Manufacturers (P) Ltd., now Dalmia Biscuits (P) Ltd., AIR
Law
law' in Article 21 means a law which is right, just and fair and not arbitrary, fanciful or oppressive, Sunil Batra v. Delhi Administration AIR 1978 SC 1675: (1979) 1 SCR 392: (1978) 4 SCC 494. It
Letters of marque
tit. 'Marcha.' These letters are grantable by the law of nations, wherever the subjects of one state are oppressed and injured by those of another, and justice is denied by that state to which the oppressor belongs.
Magna Carta
he did by intermitting the Court of Wards in 1645. So perfectly hopeless was the renewal of this oppressive system at the restoration of the second Charles, that the provision annihilating these feudal tenures, contained in the
Metropolitan Police Magistrates
also special jurisdiction to settle disputes about wages for labour on the Thames, to deal with cases of oppressive distraint for small rents, to order delivery to the owner of goods unlawfully detained up to 15l. value,
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