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De injuria sua propria absque tali causa
such cause as alleged), more compendiously called the traverse de injuria, a species of traverse by replication in pleading, now obsolete, which varied from the common form, and which, though confined to particular actions, and to a
De ventre inspiciendo
De ventre inspiciendo, writ, an original process which issued out of Chancery on petition, for the security of the next heir (i.e., verus not h'res apparens), or on behalf of a tenant-in-tail,
Defender, advocate, pleader
Defender, advocate, pleader, a debender exerts himself in favour of one that wants support; and advocate signifies one who is called
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Departure
Departure [fr. decessus, Lat.], in pleading, when a party deserts the ground that he took in his last antecedent pleading and resorts to another.
Desertion
divorce it must exist for a period of at least three years immediately preceding the presentation of the petition or where the offence appears as a cross-charge, of the answer. Desertion as a ground of divorce differs
Disposition
283. Carried out by the parties in good faith at a time when they were unaware that a petition had been presented would normally be validated unless there are grounds for thinking that the transaction was an
District Court
Act. [Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (25 of 1955), s. 3 (b)] It means, in the case of any petition under this Act, the Court of the District Judge within the local limits of whose ordinary jurisdiction, or
Failing of record
Failing of record, when an action is brought against a person who alleges in his plea matters of record in bar of the action, and avers to prove it by the record; but the
Doleance
refusing an appeal and leave to bring a doleance will not be granted if the matter of the petition could be disposed of on ordinary appeal whether by special leave or otherwise, Credit Foncier of England v.
Duress
See Scott v. Sebright, (1886) 12 PD 21, in which Butt, J., declared a marriage void on the petition of the wife. is meant the compulsion under which a person acts through fear of personal suffering as
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