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Dominus litis
to him unless there be a rule of law excluding access to a forum of plaintiff's choice or permitting recourse to a forum will be opposed to public policy or will be an abuse of the process
Drunkenness
to be of good behaviour, and the 4th s. enacts that-- Where a licensed person is charged with permitting drunkenness on his premises, and it is proved that any person was drunk on his premises, it shall
Equity to a settlement (Wife's)
Equity to a settlement (Wife's). Prior to the Married Women's Property Acts (see MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY), the law permitted a husband to possess himself absolutely of the whole of his wife's personal property and the rents and
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Estoppel
record, which imports such absolute and incontrovertible verity, that no person against whom it is producible shall be permitted to aver against it. A record concludes the parties thereto, and their privies, whether in blood, in law,
Father
Father, 'father', in the case of any one whose personal law permits adoption, shall include an adoptive further. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3(20)]
Multimodal transport document
or non-negotiable document evidencing a multimodal transport contract and which can be replaced by electronic data interchange messages permitted by applicable law. [Multimodal Transportation of Goods Act, 1993 (28 of 1993), s. 2(la)
Prostitute
Police Act, 1839, s. 54, and generally by the Vagrancy Act, 1824. A licensed retailer of intoxicating liquor permitting his premises to be the habitual resort of reputed prostitutes, whether their object be prostitution or not, is,
Open field doctrine
Open field doctrine, means the rule permitting a warrantless speech of the area outside a property owner's cartilage, which includes the home and any adjoining
Sufferance, Tenancy at
of that person. An under-tenant, who is in possession at the determination of the original lease, and is permitted by the reversioner to hold over, is a quasi-tenant at sufferance. Lord Coke tells us (in 2 Inst.
Roman Catholics
Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. See also Office and Oath Act, 1867, which permitted the Lord Chancellor of Ireland to be a Roman Catholic. The office was abolished by Part II. of
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