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Quando aliquid prohibetur fieri ex directo prohibetur et per obliquum
Quando aliquid prohibetur fieri ex directo prohibetur et per obliquum (Co. Litt. 223b), when anything is prohibited directly, it is also prohibited indirectly.
Prospectus
issue of any form of application for shares or debentures of a company unaccompanied by a prospectus is prohibited except in an offer to under writers or not to the public, or to existing members or debenture
Petroleum
the schedule gives off an inflammable vapour at a temperature of less than 73' Fahrenheit. The Act also prohibits the keeping of petroleum without a licence (except a small amount in sealed cans for private use). Accidents
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Idem est facere et non prohibere cum possis; et qui non prohibet cum prohibere possit in culpa est
prohibere cum possis; et qui non prohibet cum prohibere possit in culpa est [Lat.], to commit and not prohibit, when in your power, is the same thing; and he who does not prohibit when he can is
Gaming or gambling
chance, as cards, dice, etc., for money, or money's worth. The still unrepealed 33 Hen. 8, c. 9, prohibits the keeping of any common house for dice, cards, or any unlawful games, under penalties of 40s. for
Game
game on a Sunday or Christmas-day, or between the days and seasons when game may be killed. The prohibited period is, for partridges, between 1st February and 1st September; for pheasants, between 1st February and 1st October;
Fraud
or private confidence, or to injure the public interests, are equally reprehensi-ble with positive fraud, and therefore equally prohibited. Thus, to prevent injustice and shut out inducement to wrong, certain transactions are held to be fradulent, as
Leasehold value
permit the lessee to claim the leasehold interest from the landlord in a condemnation proceeding unless, the lease prohibits such a claim. Other states prohibit these claims by statute, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 900.
Double insurance
from re-insurance, which is effected by the underwriter to secure himself from a loss. Double insurances are not prohibited by the law maritime unless fradulently made; see Arnould on Marine Insurance, 8th Edn. P. 430; the Marine
Actus reus
'deed', a physical result of human conduct. When criminal policy regards such a deed as sufficiently harmful it prohibits it and seeks to prevent its occurrence by imposing a penalty for its commission. It has long been
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