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beneficiary
Mortg. Inc. v. Industrial Indem. Co., 845 P.2d 1087 (1993)"] creditor beneficiary : a direct beneficiary whom the party paying for the other party's performance intends to benefit as payment for a debt or obligation compare donee
New trial
from causes wholly extrinsic, i.e., arising from matters foreign to or dethors the record, the only remedy the party injured by it has (except formerly error coram nobis or vobis in some few cases) is by applying
bill
bill seeking to have a court decree set aside that is brought by someone who was not a party to the original suit usually before the decree is entered in the record compare bill of review in
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damage
or harm resulting from injury to person, property, or reputation 2 pl : the money awarded to a party in a civil suit as reparation for the loss or injury for which another is liable see also
Dowry
Means any property or valuable security given or agreed to be given either directly or indirectly-- by one party to a marriage to the other party to the marriage; or by the parents of either party to
Retainer
solicitor and counsel for professional services: the contract that such services shall not be given to the opposite party; (2) a document given by a solicitor to counsel, engaging the person who receives it to appear for
order
: restraining order in this entry protective order : an order issued for the protection of a particular party: as a : an order that limits, denies, or defers discovery by a party in order to prevent
axation of costs
the various courts allow or disallow the sums claimed by solicitors from their clients, or by the one party in an action from the other. In the High Court taxation is carried out by Taxing Masters who
Burden of proof
the most prominent canon of evidence is, that the point in issue is to be proved by the party who asserts the affirmative, according to the civil law maxims, Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, nonqui negat; Actori
County Courts
which, in any question between husband and wife as to the title to or possession of property, either party, or any such corpoation or company as therein mentioned, may apply in a summary way to any judge
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