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Abuse of process
is a term generally applied to proceeding which is wanting in bona fides and is frivolous, vexatious, or oppressive. Making use of the process of the Court as a device to help the jurisdiction of a civil
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
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
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Fumage, Fuage, or Fouage
by 13 & 14 Car. 2, c. 10, took its origin hence. This hearth-money was declared a great oppression, and abolished by 1 W. & M., st. 1, c. 10; but a tax was afterwards laid upon
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.
Petition of Right
be put in due execution, that his subjects may have no cause to complain of any wrongs and oppressions contrary to their just rights and liberties, the preservation whereof he holds himself in conscience obliged as of
Oppressor
Oppressor, means a public official who unlawfully or wrongfully exercises power under colour of authority in a way that
Perpetuating testimony
or claim. This jurisdiction emanates from the anxiety of equity to ward off litigation, where it may be oppressively exercised, by preserving the evidence in maintenance of an unpossessed legal right, or where an adversary with an
Sweinmote, Court of
within the forest compositing the jury. The principal jurisdiction of this Court was first to inquire into the oppressions and grievances committed by the officers of the forests; and secondly, to receive and try presentments, certified from
Deathbed or Dying Declarations
state of mind of the deceased and his behaviour or otherwise that he was not likely to be oppressed by the thought of death, and for a rejection on a trial for murder or a declaration of
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Oppressive - Law Dictionary Search Results
Abuse of process
is a term generally applied to proceeding which is wanting in bona fides and is frivolous, vexatious, or oppressive. Making use of the process of the Court as a device to help the jurisdiction of a civil
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
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
Keep your definitions linked to case research
Fumage, Fuage, or Fouage
by 13 & 14 Car. 2, c. 10, took its origin hence. This hearth-money was declared a great oppression, and abolished by 1 W. & M., st. 1, c. 10; but a tax was afterwards laid upon
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.
Petition of Right
be put in due execution, that his subjects may have no cause to complain of any wrongs and oppressions contrary to their just rights and liberties, the preservation whereof he holds himself in conscience obliged as of
Oppressor
Oppressor, means a public official who unlawfully or wrongfully exercises power under colour of authority in a way that
Perpetuating testimony
or claim. This jurisdiction emanates from the anxiety of equity to ward off litigation, where it may be oppressively exercised, by preserving the evidence in maintenance of an unpossessed legal right, or where an adversary with an
Sweinmote, Court of
within the forest compositing the jury. The principal jurisdiction of this Court was first to inquire into the oppressions and grievances committed by the officers of the forests; and secondly, to receive and try presentments, certified from
Deathbed or Dying Declarations
state of mind of the deceased and his behaviour or otherwise that he was not likely to be oppressed by the thought of death, and for a rejection on a trial for murder or a declaration of
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