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Licence fee and fixed fee
Excise Law connotes the idea of it being the consideration in money receivable by the Government from a private person by grant of a licence (contract), for parting in such person's favour, its exclusive privilege or right
Lex citius tolerare vult privatum damnum quam publicum malum
Lex citius tolerare vult privatum damnum quam publicum malum.-(The law more readily tolerates a private loss than a public evil.)
Knock-out
from bidding in competition one with the other on the sale of certain articles and for the subsequent private sale among themselves of the Articles thus bought at a low price. At Common Law such an agreement
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Judex bonus nihil ex arbitrio suo faciat, nec pro-positione domestica voluntatis, sed juxta leges et jura pronunciet
et jura pronunciet [Lat.], A good judge does nothing from his own judgement, or from a dictate of private will; but he will pronounce according to law and justice.
Inclosure
the purpose of cultivation. The Common Law power (see APPRO-VEMENT) has been extended and regulated under very numerous private and also by public Acts, with the aid of 'Inclosure Commissioners,' whose powers under the Inclosure Act, 1845
Eavesdropping
The habit of lurking about dwelling houses and other places where persons meet for private intercourse secretly listening to what is said and then tattling it abroad The offense is indictable at common … intercourse secretly listening to what is said and then tattling it abroad The offense is indictable at common law
Idiochira
Idiochira, means an instrument executed privately, rather than before a public officer, esp., a deed written in one's own hand, Black Law Dictionary, 7th
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.
Fiscus
or money chest. The treasury of a monarch (as the repository of forfeited property) a noble, or any private person, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 650. The importance of the imperial fiscus led to the appropriating
Declaration of Paris
Russia, Sardinia, and Turkey (February 26, 1856), in which the following agreements on maritime law were come to:-- Privateering is abolished. The neutral flag covers enemy's goods save contraband of war. Neutral goods save contraband of war
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