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Contractual lien

Contractual lien, this is a contractual right to retain possession pending payment of sums due to the possessor. The contractual lien, which is often equated with a pledge, is

their way to their duties, speaking or writing disrespectfully of the authorities of the Court, and commenting on pending proceedings. Every judge of a court of record has power immediately to commit for a contempt committed in

Maritime Courts

of Admiralty was transferred to and vested in the High Court of Justice; and all causes and matters pending in that Court, or which would have been within its exclusive cognizance, were assigned to a division of

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Salvage

has jurisdiction, and fixes the sum to be paid, adjusts the proportions, and takes care of the property pending the suit; or, if necessary, directs a sale and divides the proceeds between the salvors and the proprietors.

Motion

in the progress of a cause, e.g., a motion for an injunction or the appointment of a receiver pending the trial of the action; or summarily and wholly unconnected with plenary proceedings, as a motion to rectify

Communication

of Parliament. The President may send a message to either House of Parliament with respect to a Bill pending before it or otherwise and a House which receives such message shall consider any matter required by the

Tribunal

Means the Registrar or, as the case may be, the Appellate Board, before which the proceeding concerned is pending. [Trade Marks Act, 1999 (47 of 1999), s. 2(1)(ze)] 1. A court or other adjudicatory body 2. The

Tolt

Court-baron was taken and removed into a county Court, O.N.B. 4. Means a writ for removing a case pending in a court baron to a county court, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1495.

Tacking

Before 1926 the law was that, 'if a third mortgagee buys in the first mortgage, though it be pendente lite, pending a bill brought by the second mortgagee to redeem the first, yet the third mortgagee having

Syndicate

and selling it at a profit-usually to a limited company. Private companies formed to carryout and complete some pending operation or transaction, or some contemplated operation or transaction, are commonly called Syndicates, Palmer's Co. Prec., pt. I.

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