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contract
contract for the purchase of real property in which the seller retains the deed to the property or otherwise continues to have an interest in it until the buyer makes payments in installments equal to the full … the purchase price as agreed upon called also contract for deed land contract maritime contract : a contract directly relating to the navigation, business, or commerce of the high seas or other navigable waters and falling within
Criminal Evidence Act
person charged with the same offence; (g) The witness-box is to be the place for giving evidence, unless otherwise ordered by the Court; and (h) The provisions of s. 18 of the Indictable Offences Act, 1848 (repealed … remain unaffected. The (English) Criminal Justice Act, 1925 s. 12, replacing (English) Inictable Offences Act, 1848, s. 18, directs that before commitment for trial (see ACCUSED PERSON and COMMITMENT) justices of the peace beore whom a personis
Pawnbroker
shillings shall, when disposed of by the pawnbroker, be disposed of by sale by public auction, and not otherwise; and the regulations in the fifth schedule to this Act shall be observed with reference to the sale. … be deemed the absolute owner of the pledge purchased. The regulation in the 5th Schedule are very precise, directing, e.g., publication of catalogues of the pledges, that 'the pledges of each pawnbroker in the catalogue shall be
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Best evidence rule
in a writing, recording, or photograph the original must be privileged unless the original is lost, destroyed, or otherwise, unobtainable, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 49. Best evidence rule, is the rule when the … (1745) 1 Atk 21. Best evidence rule, means the rule requires in effect that the best or most direct evidence of a fact should be adduced or its absence accounted e.g. the best evidence of the existence
Stop Order
Stop Order. If any person entitled, in expectancy or otherwise, to any share of any stocks or funds, standing in the name of the Paymaster-General (formerly the Accountant-General
Delectus person'
to his introduction; for the dissent of a single partner will exclude him, since it would, in effect, otherwise amount to a right of one or more of the partners to change the nature, and terms, and … do not, in that capacity, succeed to the state and condition of that partner. The Roman Law is directed to the same purpose. It even pressed the rule of a still further extent, and held that a
liability
when they have acted in concert, owe the same duty to the plaintiff, have a legal relationship, or otherwise together have caused an injury to the plaintiff and that allows contribution or indemnity between the joint tortfeasors … premises liability : liability arising from injuries or losses occurring on one's premises primary liability : liability imposed directly on a person because of his or her own negligence, default, or legal undertaking prod·ucts liability : liability
En ventre sa mere
whilst it is within the womb, it cannot be the subject of a murder or manslaughter charge, but otherwise if it receives injuries whilst in the womb which occasion its death after birth, R. v. Senior, (1832) … held by the House of Lords that the doctrine does not apply where a benefit is not destined directly to the child and is only for his indirect benefit, if any: Elliot v. Joicey (Lord), 1935 AC
Injunction
damages, or as from its continuance or permanent mischief must occasion a constantly recurring grievance which cannot be otherwise adequately prevented than by an injunction; as where the injury is irreparable or where injury to health or … passed, may be relied on by way of defence thereto, it being provided, however, that the court may direct a 'stay of proceedings.' Amongst public nuisances, restrainable either upon information or at suit of a private person
Mens rea
framed as to make an act criminal, whether there has been any intention to break the law or otherwise to do wrong or not. There is a large body of municipal law at the present day which … such a case the substance of the enactment is that a man shall take care that the statutory direction is obeyed and that if he fails to do so he does so at his peril--WILLS, J., R.
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