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sustain

support as true, legal, or just 2 : to allow or uphold as valid [ an objection] compare overrule sus·tain·able adj

Modus et conventio vincunt legem

Modus et conventio vincunt legem[Lat.], custom and agreement overrule law. --(Persons may contract themselves out of their legal obligations.)

and not to light peculiarly appropriate to the particular purpose for which the light has been used [ibid., overruling Warren v. Brown, (1900) 2 QB 722], and see also Price v. Hildich, (1930) 1 Ch 500. If

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Summary jurisdiction, Court of

does not include justices at a licensing meeting: see Boulter v. Kent Justices, 1897, AC 556, reversing and overruling decisions of the Court of Appeal.

Stare decisis

same decision had the question come before it originally. But the supreme appellate Court will not shrink from overruling a decision, or series of decisions, which establish a doctrine plainly outside the statute and outside the common

Special Act of Parliament

particular railway to be constructed, or otherwise dealing with a particular area or person only, and therefore not overruled by the general terms of a general Act. See Taylor v. Oldham Corporation, (1876) 4 Ch D 410.

Proxy

out stamped forms at the company's expense, Peel v. L. & N.W. Ry. Co., (1907) 1 Ch 5; overruling Studdert v. Grosvenor, (1886), 33 Ch D 528. On a show of hands, a proxy has only one

Prayer for the Dead

for the dead is not void as a gift to superstitious uses, Bourne v. Keane, 119 AC 815; overruling West v. Shuttleworth, (1835) 2 My&K 684, and the cases decided thereunder. See also O'Hanlon v. Logue, (1906)

Marriage, Promise of

in consideration of marriage' must be, by s. 4 of the Statute of Frauds. So it was decided, overruling an earlier decision to the contrary, about 200 years ago, and the question does not appear to have

precedent

precedent is from another jurisdiction (as another state's supreme court), it is considered only persuasive. Precedents may be overruled esp. by the same court that originally rendered the decision.

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