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Physically handicapped

being handicapped may be congenital or acquired due to accident or disease. Scar on face, torn ear with perfect hearing, torn nose with no breathing trouble amputation of toe or finger are not within purview of physically

Lucid Interval

By a lucid interval is understood, in a legal sense, a temporary cessation of the insanity or a perfect restoration to reason. It differs entirely from a remission, in which there is a mere abatement of the

Pandect', or Digesta

with the expenses of correction, for which purpose every doctor or scholar was obliged to lend his own perfect copy, under pain of a fine of five lire; hence the term exempla correcta et bene emendata. Books

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Participes plures sunt quasi unum corpus, in eo quod unum jus habent, et oportet quod corpus sit intergum et quod in nulla parte sit defectus

are as one body, inasmuch as they have one right, and it is necessary that the body be perfect, and that there be defect in no part.

Partition

re-enacted by s. 87 of the (English) Copyhold Act, 1894. With a view to the more convenient and perfect partition or allotment of the premises, equity frequently decreed a pecuniary compensation to one of the parties for

Peremptory mandamus

law or false in fact. To this writ no other return will be admitted, but a certificate of perfect obedience and due execution. See MANDAMUS; and as to 'peremptory mandamus' in the first instance, to hold a

Proved

Evidence Act does not draw a distinction between civil and criminal cases. Nor does this definition insist on perfect proof because absolute certainty amounting to demonstration is rarely to be had in the affairs of life. Nevertheless,

Recovery

estate or of right existing at one time indistinct persons, and both entails were to be barred. To perfect the legal title, and to give a seisin to the demandant, a writ of habere facias seisinam must

Registration of title of land

estate, and until that takes place the purchaser is open to the risk of the vendor establishing or perfecting equities against him and even fradulently conveying the same land to another purchaser, who may obtain a perfect

Servi

Debtors sold because they were unable to pay their debts. (3) Captives in war, retained and employed as perfect slaves. (4) Nativi, servants born as such, solely belonging to the lord. There were also said to be

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