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Action

equity, and any other proceedings in which rights are determined, UCC S. 1-201(1). Action is to be an ordinary proceeding in a court of justice, by which one party prosecutes another party for the enforcement or protection

Adjournment

time or place, a continuation of a meeting from one day to another. An adjourned meeting is in ordinary cases a mere continuation of the original meeting and no fresh notice of it need be given, Scadding

Admission of a clerk

the bishop when a patron of a church has presented him to it. It is, in fact, the ordinary's declaration that he approves of the presentee to serve the cure of the church to which he is

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Adulterated article

Adulterated article, The ordinary sense of 'adulteration' connotes the mixing of deleterious or other substance with the main basic article; but the

Adultery

185 those for judicial separation. By s. 189 a husband may claim damages from an adulterer (who in ordinary circumstances must be made a co-respondent, s. 177) to be assessed by a jury, and the Court has

Affairs of State

which State is concerned. [Evidence Act (1 of 1872), s. 123] The expression 'affairs of State' in its ordinary significance is of the widest amplitude and will mean the entire business of State. It takes in the

Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923

not distrain for rent which became due more than one year before making the distress, unless by the ordinary course of dealing between the landlord and tenant the payment has been deferred until the expiration of a

Ambassador

on him by letters of credence to treat on affairs of state, 4 Inst. 153. Ambassadors are either ordinary, who reside in the place whither they are sent; or extraordinary, who are employed upon special matters. An

Animals

as hares, pheasants, partridges, etc. see FER' NATUR' and GAME. Animals of the first or second class are ordinary subjects of property in this country. But there is no property in those of the third class until

Any sums charged by the dealer

charged by the dealer, the phrase 'any sums charged by the dealer' has to be understood in its ordinary popular sense. So construing the phrase, it means 'what is demanded and collected or received by the dealer',

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