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Marriage. Marriage as understood in Christendom is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others, Hyde v. Hyde, 1866 LR 1 P&D 130. Where a marriage in a foreign country complies with these requirements it is immaterial that under the local law dissolution can be obtained by mutual consent or at the will of either party with merely formal conditions of official registration, and it constitutes a valid marriage according to English law, Nachimson v. Nachimson, 1930, P. 217. Previous to 1753 the validity of marriage was regulated by ecclesiastical law, not touched by any statutory nullity but modified by the Common law Courts, which sometimes interfered with the Ecclesiastical Courts, by prohibition, sometimes themselves decide on the validity of a marriage, presuming a marriage in fact as opposed to lawful marriage. A religious ceremony by an ordained clergyman was essential to a lawful marriage, at all events for dower and heirship; but if in an i...
Palladium
A rare metallic element of the light platinum group found native and also alloyed with platinum and gold It is a silver white metal resembling platinum and like it permanent and untarnished in the air but is more easily fusible with a melting point of 1555deg C It can also be prepared as a finely divided black powder It is unique in its power of absorbing hydrogen which it does to the extent of nearly a thousand volumes forming the alloy Pd2H It is used for graduated circles and verniers for plating certain silver goods and somewhat in dentistry It was so named in 1804 by Wollaston from the asteroid Pallas which was discovered in 1802 Symbol Pd Atomic number 46 Atomic weight 10642 Density 120...
Pd
The chemical symbol for palladium an element of the platinum group of atomic number 46...
Admiralty claim in rem
Admiralty claim in rem, means the claim in rem. Practice Direction Admiralty, (2000) PD 49F para 1.4(b), Note 1. See also Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 1(1), 4th Edn., Para 310, Note 1. p. 425....
Claim in rem
Claim in rem, means and Admiralty claim inrem Admiralty (2000) PD 49F, para 1.4(b) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 1(1), para 310, p. 425....
Consensus, non concubitus, facit matrimonium
Consensus, non concubitus, facit matrimonium. Co. Litt. 323, (Consent, not cohabitation, constitutes marriage.)Consent in necessary to matrimony, and therefore person non compotes mentis, or a boy under 14 or a girl under 12, or a person under coercion (see Scott v. Sebright, (1886) 12 PD 21), cannot enter into this, or indeed any other contract. But see now Age of Marriage Act,1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 36), which avoids any marriage of persons under 16, and see MARRIAGE....
Damages
Damages, constitute the sum of money claimed or adjudged to be paid in compensation for loss or injury sustained, the value estimated in money, of something lost or withheld, Divisional Controller K.S.R.T.C. v. Mahadeva Shetty, (2003) 7 SCC 197 (202).The expression 'damages' is neither vague nor over-wide. It has more than one signification but the precise import in a given context is not difficult to discern. A plurality of variants stemming out of a core concept is seen in such words as actual damages, civil damages, compensatory damages, consequential damages, contingent damages, continuing damages, double damages, excessive damages, exemplary damages, general damages, irreparable damages, pecuniary damages, prospective damages, special damages, speculative damages, substantial damages, unliquidated damages. But the essentials are (a) detriment to one by the wrongdoing of another, (b) reparation awarded to the injured through legal remedies, and (c) its quantum being determined by t...
Duress
Duress [fr. duresse, Fr.; durities, Lat., constraint], imprisonment, compulsion.Duress is either by imprisonment or by threats. In order to constitute duress by imprisonment, either the imprisonment or the duress consequent upon it must be tortious and unlawful.By the Common Law, a contract made during duress is not void, but voidable; and the person upon whom it is practised may avail himself of the duress as a special defence to an action thereupon at any time. But the person who has employed the force cannot allege it as a defence, if the contract be insisted upon by the other.Where a person is not a free agent, and is not able to protect himself, the Court will protect him, and will set aside a contract made under duress. Circumstances also of extreme necessity and distress of the party, although not accompanied by the direct restraint or duress, may, in like manner, so entirely overcome his free agency as to justify the Court in setting aside a contract made by him on account of s...
Excommunication
Excommunication, an ecclesiastical interdict or censure, divided into the greater and the lesser; by the greater a person was excluded from the communion of the church and the company of the faithful, and was rendered incapable of any legal act; by the lesser he was merely debarred from participation in the Sacraments.See No. 33 of the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion as to avoiding an excommunicated person 'until he be openly reconciled by penance, and received into the church by a judge that hath authority thereto'; Canon 112, to the effect that the minister and churchwardens shall yearly within 40 days after Easter exhibit to the Bishop or his Chancellor the names and surnames of all the parishioners, as well men as women, which being of the age of sixteen years received not the Communion at Easter before; and Jenkins v. Cook, (1876) 1 PD 80, in which the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council admonished a vicar to refrain from refusing to administer the Communion to a parishioner....
Gestation
Gestation. There is no extreme period of gestation by English law. In Bosvile v. Attorney-General, (1887) 12 PD at p. 178, medical witnesses put the normal time at from 270 to 275 days, adding that a longer period, though not unknown or even uncommon, is exceptional. See also Gaskill v. Gaskill, 1921, P. 425, where it was held that in the present state of medical knowledge 331 days was not an impossible period of gestation...
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