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Preliminary point

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Question of fact

the issues of fact; but if there arise in the course of the trial a question of fact preliminary to the decision of a point of law, etc., e.g., the genuineness of a document at necessary to

Action prejudicial

Action prejudicial, otherwise called preparatory or principal, an action arising from some preliminary doubt, as in case a man sue his younger brother for lands descended from the father, and it … brother for lands descended from the father, and it is objected against him that he is bastard, this point of bastardy must be tried before the cause can proceed. It is, therefore, termed pr'judicialis.

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Decree

with regard to all or any of the matters in controversy in the suit and may be either preliminary or final. It shall be deemed to include the rejection of a plaint and the determination of any … parties which it based on the pleadings and proofs in the cause, pronounced on hearing and understanding all points in issue, A Dictionary of Law, Willium C. Anderson, 1889, p. 322. As used in the Court-Fees Act

Magna Carta

Friday, the 19th of June, 1215, being in the seventeenth year of his reign. After the adjustment of preliminaries, Articles or heads of agreement were drawn up and sealed; these Articles were then reduced to the form … This chapter of the Great Charter is interesting as showing that our circuits and the practice of reserving points of law arising on circuit, for the consideration of the Court, are a very old institution of our

Bar, plea in

point, seeking to displace the plaintiff's equity. See now DEFENCE. In Scottish criminal practice the expression denotes these preliminary pleas which, if sustained, prevent the trial proceeding. The more important of them are: that the accused is

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