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Compensation
owners and occupiers of lands taken or injuriously affected for public purposes and under Act of Parliament, e.g., the (English) Lands … Lloyd or Cripps on Compensation, 7th Edn. Also (in Scots Law) a sort of right by set-off or stoppage, whereby a
Copyright
815. There is no copyright in an illegal or immoral publication, Southey v. Sherwood, (1817) 2 Mer 435; Stockdale v. Onwhyn, … selling, and publishing is own original work which the statute law first gave to an author in 1709, by 8 Anne,
Shall
context of the statute, the purpose of the prescription, the public injury in the event of neglect of the rule and … 233: (1955) 1 SCR 1104. Shall, it is a settled law that even wherthe expression 'shall' is used, the same may
Charitable uses and trusts
laws as prejudicial to the common utility, and that such public mischief had greatly increased by many large and improvident dispositions, … (see MORTMAIN) were prohibited by Magna Charta and other whole-some laws as prejudicial to the common utility, and that such public
Mandamus
consonant to right and justice. It is used principally for public purposes, and to enforce performance of public duties. It enforces, … under a duty imposed by statue or by the common law to do a particular act. In order to obtain a
Sedition
established or either House of Parliament,' or to excite the public 'to attempt the alteration of any matter in Church or … to any test or declaration not required or authorized by law, is declared to be an illegal society, and by s.
Bribe
giver. It is a misdemeanour at common law for a public officer, whether judicial or ministerial, to accept a bribe, or
libel
(as in business) or otherwise exposes him or her to public contempt b : the publication of such a libel c … defamation, slander NOTE: Although libel is defined under state case law or statute, the U.S. Supreme Court has enumerated some First
Audit
whose accounts are audited has given his service gratuitously. The public accounts are audited under the (English) Exchequer and Audit Act, … audit of accounts of local authorities were the (English) Poor Law Audit Act, 1848; (English) District Auditors Act,1879; (English) Municipal Corporations
Institutions
And Title XVIII., the last, shows what were the Roman public prosecutions, which every one had free liberty to institute, and … his Code and Digest, or Pandects, a complete body of law. But these works were not adapted to the purposes of
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