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treason
treason [Anglo-French treison crime of violence against a person to whom allegiance is owed, literally, betrayal, from Old French traïson, from traïr to betray, from Latin tradere to hand over, surrender] : the offense of attempting...
Statutory body
Statutory body, must be created by or under a statute and owe its existence to a statute, Sukhdev Singh v. Bhagatram Sardar Singh, AIR 1975 SC 1331; Vaish Degree College v. Lakshmi Narain, (1976) 2 Lab...
Debt
Debt [fr. debitum, Lat.], a sum of money due from one person to another. An action of debt lay where a person claimed the recovery of a liquidated or certain sum of money affirmed to be...
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Suit
Suit, a following. It is used in divers senses:- (1) An action in the Supreme Court, or a proceeding by petition in the Divorce branch of that Court; a prosecution; a petition to a Court, etc....
Gossan
Decomposed rock usually reddish or ferruginous owing to oxidized pyrites forming the upper part of a metallic vein Called also iron hat
Quaker
The society was founded by George Fox about the middle of the seventeenth century, and gained many adherents owing to the discontent with the existing priestcraft of the day. There is no adherence to any definite or
Say not less than
of hundred packs, or, in other words, there is an absolute contract to supply hundred packs at least, owing to the use of the words 'not less than', Leeming v. Snaith, (1851) 16 QB 275.
Savings banks
solvent and well managed, though cases of failure of 'share-out' clubs and similar Savings Bank institutions are frequent owing to want of competent supervision by depositors who are chiefly of the working classes, or poor people.
Satisfaction
Satisfaction, legal compensation; the recompense for an injury done, or the payment of money due and owing. See ACCORD. The giving of something with the intention, express or implied, that it is to extinguish some
Restitutio in integrum
The case of absentia, which comprehends not merely absence in the ordinary sense of the word, but absence owing to madness or imprisonment, and the like causes. The case of error. Mistake comprehends such error as cannot
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