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cause
interrupting the chain of causation ;also : a cause that in ordinary experience does not lead to a particular effect compare proximate cause in this entry su·per·sed·ing cause : an unforeseeable intervening cause that interrupts the chain
jurisdiction
claim that would otherwise be properly brought to a state court. appellate jurisdiction : the jurisdiction granted to particular courts to hear appeals of the decisions of lower tribunals and to reverse, affirm, or modify those decisions
proof
Latin probare to prove] 1 : the effect of evidence sufficient to persuade a reasonable person that a particular fact exists see also evidence 2 : the establishment or persuasion by evidence that a particular fact exists
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rule
a regulating principle or precept 2 a : an order or directive issued by a court in a particular proceeding esp. upon petition of a party to the proceeding that commands an officer or party to perform
Abatement
assets after payment of the debts they abate in proportion, unless a priority is specially given to any particular legacy. A testator is always presumed to intend that the legacies shall be equally paid, unless he expresses
Colourable legislation
on the part of the legislature. The whole doctrine resolves itself into the question of competency of a particular legislature to enact a particular law. If the legislature is competent to pass a particular law, the motives
Common carrier
Common carrier, the question in any particular case whether the carrier was a common carrier or a private carrier has therefore to be decided on
Costs
he ultimately succeed or not; or between party and party, being those only which are allowed in some particular cases to the party succeeding against his adversary, and these are either interlocutory, given on various motions and
Criminal Evidence Act
on the groundof interest), expressly excepted criminal proceedings from its opertion; but a series of enactments dealing with particular offences, from the Licensing Act, 1872, downto the Chaff Cutting Machines Accidents Act, 1897 (of which s. 20
question
question 1 : a particular query directed to a witness compare interrogatory hy·po·thet·i·cal question [hī-pə-the-ti-kəl] : a question directed to an expert witness
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