Plea - Law Dictionary Search Results
Disposition of the company's property
Disposition of the company's property, where a company pays a creditor by cheque between the date of petition and the winding up order against the company, it is illogical to hold that there is an additional
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
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.
Keep your definitions linked to case research
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
Election
regressum. Quod semel placuit in electionibus amplius displicere non potest. Co. Litt. 146, 146 a.--(Elections once made and plea witnessed suffers not a recall. What has once pleased a man in elections cannot displease him on further
Blank bar
Blank bar, common bar, a plea in bar, which, in an action of trespass, was restored to compel the plaintiff to assign the place
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
Benevolence
or forced loan, now yielded only with consent of the House of Commons, in pursuance of the (English) Petition of Right, 3 Car. 1, and 1 W. & M. st. 2, s. 2. Also an aid granted
Petitionee
A person cited to answer or defend against a petition
Bankrupt
the Act of 1883 and of the subsequent statutes are left standing'a most inconvenient method of legislation. the petition of bankruptcy should be registered as a 'lis pendens' and the receiving order and adjudication as 'orders' in
- ‹ Prev
- 28
- 29
- 30
- 31
- 32
- 34
- 35
- 36
- 37
- 38
- Next ›
- Last »
Try the research workspace - 7 days free