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Home Dictionary Name: quaintQuaintly
In a quaint manner...
Quaintness
The quality of being quaint...
Pansy
A plant of the genus Viola Viola tricolor and its blossom originally purple and yellow Cultivated varieties have very large flowers of a great diversity of colors Called also hearts ease love in idleness and many other quaint names...
Quaint
Prudent wise hence crafty artful wily...
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Audi alteram partem
Audi alteram partem, an order which infringes a fundamental freedom passed in violation of the audi alteram partem rule is a nullity, Nowabkhan Abbaskhan v. State of Gujarat, AIR 1974 SC 1471 (1480).(Hear the other side--i.e., no man should be condemned unheard.)--See Cooper v. Wandsworth Board of Works, (1863) 32 LJ CP 185 and the reference therein, at p. 188, by Byles, J., to Dr. Bentley's case, (1723) 1 Str. 557, and Mr. Justice Fortescue's quaint reason for the Common Law supplying the omission in a statute to direct a hearing, Hopkins v. Smethwick Local Board, (1890) 24 QBD 712; Broom's Leg. Max.Similarly, Qui aliquid statuerit parte inaudita altera, 'quum licet dixerit, haud 'quum fecerit--6 Rep. 52 (taken from Seneca's Medea). (He who shall decide anything without the other side having been heard, although he may have said what is right, will not have done what is right).See also Dand Ahmad v. Disit Magistrate, (1972) 1 SCC 655: AIR 1972 SC 896....
Common
Common, a profit which a man has in the land of another; it derives its name from the community of interest which thence arises between the claimant and the owner of the soil, or between the claimant and other commoners entitled to the same right; all which parties are entitled to bring actions for injuries done to their respective interests, and that both as against strangers and against each other. It is called an incorporeal right, which lies in grant, as if originally commencing in some agreement between lords and tenants, for some valuable consideration which, by lapse of time, being formed into a prescription, continues, although there be no deed or instrument in writing which proves the original contract or agreement. It differs from a rent, principally in freedom of enjoyment on the one hand, and in freedom from obligation on the other; which the law expresses by the quaint antithesis that it lies not in render but in prender. It is also incidentally distinguished by its fruits...
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