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Curtesy of England

Curtesy of England [jus curialitatis Angli', Lat.], an estate which by favour of the law of England arises by act of law, and is that interest which a husband has for his life in his wife's...

Deer

Deer. As to the right of property in deer, see Daivs v. Powell, (1739) 7 Mod 249. Deer in a park do not belong to the class of things qu' usu consumuntur [Paine v. Warwick (Countess),...

Fire

a house, etc., the house, etc., be burnt down, the loss falls on the intending purchaser or tenant, Paine v. Meller, (1801) 6 Ves 349; Counter v. Macpherson, (1845) 5 Moore PC 83; and he cannot claim

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Hire

those titles respectively, Story on Bailment's, c. vi. Consult Smith's Leading Cases, sub tit, Coggs v. Bernard; Wyatt Paine on Bailment's; Addison or Chitty on Contracts. It means the sum payable periodically by the hirer under a

Mitigation

Mitigation, abatement of anything penal, harsh, or painful. An address in mitigation is a speech made by the defendant or his counsel to the judge, after

Paranoid schizophrenia

of hypnotism, electricity wireless telegraphy or atomic agencies. The patient gets very irritate and excited owing to these painful and disagreeable hallucinations and delusions. Since so many people are against him and are interested in his ruin,

Vis major

and exclusively, without human intervention, and that it could not have prevented by any amount of foresight and pains and care reasonably to be expected for him, Baldeo Narain v. State of Bihar, AIR 1959 Pat 442.

Painstaker

One who takes pains one careful and faithful in all work

Quinsy

An inflammation of the throat or parts adjacent especially of the fauces or tonsils attended by considerable swelling painful and impeded deglutition and accompanied by inflammatory fever It sometimes creates danger of suffocation called also squinancy and

Caisson disease

time in an atmosphere of high pressure as in caissons diving bells etc It is characterized by neuralgic pains and paralytic symptoms It is caused by the release of bubbles of gas usually nitrogen from bodily fluids

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