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Pray in aid

Pray in aid, to petition in a court of justice for the calling in of the help from another that has an interest in the cause in question....

Aid of the King [auxilium regis, Lat.], the king's tenant prays this, when rent is demanded of him by others. A city or borough, holding a fee-farm from the king, if anything be demanded which belongs to such fee-farm, may pray, in 'aid of the king,' and the king's bailiffs, collectors, or accountants shall have aid of the king. The proceedings are then stayed until the Crown counsel are heard, but this aid will not be granted after issue, because the Crown cannot rely upon the defence made by another, Termes de la Ley...

Procedendo on aid prayer

Procedendo on aid prayer. If one pray in aid of the Crown in real action, and aid be granted, it shall be awarded that he sue to the sovereign in Chancery, and the justices in the Common Pleas shall stay until this writ of procedendo de loquel' come to them. So also on a personal action, New N.B. 154....

Aid prayer

Aid prayer, formerly made use of in pleading for a petition in Court, praying in aid of the tenant for life, etc., from the reversioner or remainderman, when the title to the inheritance was in question. It was a plea in suspension of the action, Com. Dig. 'Abide,' B. 5....

Tenure

Tenure, cannot be equated with 'terms and con-ditions of services' or payment of gravity or pension. Tenure when followed by words of office, means term of office, Punjab University v. Khalsa College, Amritsar, AIR 1971 P&H 479: 1971 Cur LJ 334.Means a right, term, or mode of holding lands or tenements in subordination to a superior; in fendal times, real property was held predominantly as part of a tenure system, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1481.Tenure, the mode of holding property. The only tenures in land now existing with a few unimpor-tant exceptions are (1) free and common socage in fee-simple, including enfranchised copyhold, which is subject to paramount incidents; and (2) a term of years absolute (see LAND). The idea of tenure or holding is said to derive from feudalism, which separated the dominium directum (the dominion of the soil), which it placed mediately, or immediately, in the Crown, from the dominium utile (the possessory title), the right to use the profits ...

Counterplea

Counterplea. When the tenant in any real action, tenant by the courtesy or in dower, in his answer and plea vouched anyone to warrant his title, or prayed inaid of another whohad a larger estate, as of him in reversion, etc.; or where a stranger to the action came and prayed to be received to save his estate; then that which the demandant alleged against it, why he should not be admitted, was called a counterplea; it was a replication to aid prier, and was called counterplea to the voucher. But when the voucher was allowed, and the vouchee came and demanded what cause the tenant had to vouchhim, and the tenant showed his cause, whreuponthe vouchee pleaded anything to avoid the warranty, that was termed a counterplea of thewarranty, Temes de la Ley. Obsolete....

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