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charity
building) ;also : an institution (as a hospital or school) or organization founded by such a gift compare private foundation NOTE: Statutory definitions of what institutions and organizations qualify as charities vary. Organizations that are primarily involved in
Free-chapel
liable to the visitation of the ordinary. It is always of royal foundation, or founded at least by private persons to whom the Crown has granted the privilege, 1 Burn's Ec. Law, 298.
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Public Schools
schools open to all, subject to the terms of their foundation and the regulations of some governing body, private schools being only open to such pupils as the proprietor or head master chooses to admit. The term
Conspiracy
P. 255. 'If in carrying into effect a criminal conspiracy the conspirators inflict loss and damage on a private individual, he will have a private action for the particular damage which he has thus separately suffered'; ibid. … 625. There are also, it seems, what may be called civil con-spiracies, i.e., conspiracies which may be the foundation of an action, though not of an indictment; and there are undoubtedly cases in which two or more
Freedom of press
which would have the effect of interference with the content and circulation of newspapers, Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Private Ltd. v. Union of India, AIR 1986 SC 515: (1985) 1 SCC 641: (1985) 2 SCR 287. Is … v. Union of India, AIR 1958 SC 578. Is freedom of speech and of press lie at the foundation of all democratic organizations, Romesh Thapper v. State of Madras, 1950 SCR 594. In U.K., it is a
Lex loci contractus
Odgen v. Ogden, 1908, P. 46; CONFICT OF LAWS; and consult Dicey's Conflict of Laws, and Westlake on Private International Law. … of agencies, of purchases and sales, of mutual credits, and of transfers of negotiable instruments, rests on this foundation; and the nation which should refuse to acknowledge the common principles would soon find its whole commercial intercourse
Magna Carta
After the fortess of Bedford had surrendered to them, and they were in possession of the metropolis, by private agreement with the citizens, the king sent a message to them to desire that a place and time … Edward I later confirmed. It is generally regarded as one of the great common-law documents and as the foundation of constitution liberties. The other three great charters of English Liberty are the Petition of Right (3 Car.
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