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Petition of Right
Petition of Right, 3 Car. 1, c. 1, a parliamentary declaration of the liberties of the people, assented to by Charles I. in the beginning of his reign. In the first Parliament of Charles I., which...
Aid of the King
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...
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...
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Cause of action
Cause of action, a cause of action is a bundle of facts which are required to be pleaded and proved for the purpose of obtaining relief claimed in the suit. For the aforementioned purpose, the material...
Co-respondent
Co-respondent, the man charged with adultery. The (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 177,enacts that on a petition for divorce presented by the husband or in the answer of a husband praying for divorce, the petitioner or...
Cruelty
Cruelty, it is contemplated as a conduct of such type which endangers the living of the petitioner with the respondent. Cruelty consists of acts which are dangerous to life, limb or health. Cruelty for the purpose...
Impotent, Impotency
Impotent, Impotency, a party is impotent if his or her mental or physical condition makes cons-ummation of the marriage a practical impossibility. The condition must be one, according to the statute, which existed at the time...
Orando pro rege et regno
Orando pro rege et regno, an ancient writ which issued, while there was no standing collect for a sitting Parliament, to pray for peace and good government
Insufficiency
Insufficiency, an answer in Chancery was said to be insufficient when it did not specially reply to the specific charges in the bill. If a plaintiff conceived an answer to be insufficient, he might take exception...
Les Prelats, Seigneurs, et Communes en ce present Parlement assemblees, au nom de touts vos autres sujets, remercient tres humblement votre Majeste, et prient a Dieu vous donner en sante bonne vie et longue
Les Prelats, Seigneurs, et Communes en ce present Parlement assemblees, au nom de touts vos autres sujets, remercient tres humblement votre Majeste, et prient a Dieu vous donner en sante bonne vie et longue.-The prelates, lords,...
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