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Contracting as consumer

contract in the course of a business, and any goods passing are of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption, Consumer Arbitration Agreements Act, 1988, s. 3(1) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. (2), para … a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption, Consumer Arbitration Agreements Act, 1988, s. 3(1) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. (2), para 615, p. 342.

Common assurances

of four kinds:-(1) By matter in pais, or deed, which is an assurance transacted between two or more private persons, in pais, iin the country; that is (according to the old Common Law) upon the very spot

Commercium jure gentium commune esse debet, et non in monopolium et privatum paucorum qu'stum convertendum

Inst. 181.-(Commerce by the law of nations ought to be common, and not converted to monopoly and the private gain of a few.)

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Body politic

S.; bodhag, Gael.], the nation; also a corporation. A group of people regarded in a political (rather thana private) sense and organised under a single Government authority; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.

Arrogatio

Arrogatio, a form of adoption in Civil Law. It could not be effected by a mere private juristic act like adoptio, but only by a decree of the comitia curiata or later by imperial rescript.

Advance Payment Code

Advance Payment Code, has effects for securing payment of the expenses of the execution of street work in private streets adjacent to new building. Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 21, 4th Edn., Para 749, p. 548. … payment of the expenses of the execution of street work in private streets adjacent to new building. Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 21, 4th Edn., Para 749, p. 548.

Publish

To make public to make known to mankind or to people in general to divulge as a private transaction to promulgate or proclaim as a law or an edict

penal action

penal action : an action by the state or a private party that is for the purpose of imposing a statutorily prescribed penalty on one who violates a law

expose

of which I shall for sale at public auction "Detroit Law Journal"] b : to purposely uncover (one's private body parts) or leave open to view in a place or situation in which such conduct is likely

cause of action

court] 2 : right of action [the court, led by Justice Brennan, said Congress intended to provide a private cause of action "National Law Journal"]

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