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Injunction
may direct a 'stay of proceedings.' Amongst public nuisances, restrainable either upon information or at suit of a private person immediately grieved by them, may be enumerated obstructions to highways and bridges, public rivers and harbours, and
Jobbery
Jobbery, means the practice or act of perverting a public service in a way that serves private ends; unfair means to serve private interests, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 840.
Key pair
Key pair, In an asymmetric crypts system, means a private key and its mathematically related public key, which are so related that the public key can verify a
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Land-reeve
attend not only to the woods and hedge-timber, but also to the state of the fences, gates, buildings, private roads, drift-ways, and water-courses; and likewise to the stocking of commons, and encroachment of every kind, as well
Local land charges
by any local authority, including county, borough or rural district councils under the Public Health Metropolis Management or Private Street Works Act, or under any similar statute (public, general or local or private) passed at any time,
Locus standi
of Law, William C. Anderson, 1889, p. 637. Locus standi, is the right of the petitioner against a private, provisional order or hybrid bill or special procedure order to be heard upon his petition. A petitioner has
National Bank
Bank Act, 1981 (61 of 1981), s. 2 (e); see also Act (2 of 1934), s. 2(ccc)] A private or quasi public corporation, organised under the general law, by individual stockholders, with their own capital, by private
Office
actionable per se, i.e., without proof of special damage. See PUBLIC OFFICE. An 'office' means a public or private employment with certain duties to be performed, Dewan Joynal Abedin v. Abdul Wazed Mian, (1988) Supp SCC 580
Pardon
a pr'munire (see that title), unpardonable even by the Crown; and (2) that the sovereign cannot pardon where private justice is principally concerned in the prosecution of offenders--'non potest rex gratiam facere cum injuria et damno aliorum.'
Prerogative of mercy
In early times, again, there were fewer offences that did not admit of being pardoned. In appeals (i.e., private accusations of felony) which were not the suit of the King, but of the party injured, the prosecutor
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