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Arbitrariness

Arbitrariness, the meaning and true import of arbitrariness is more easily visualized than precisely stated or defined. The question, whether an impugned act is arbitrary or not, is ultimately to be answered on the facts and in

Apprentice

within the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925, ss. 3 and 35. Justices of the peace have jurisdiction in many questions between master and apprentice. For instance, the (English) Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act, 1875, s. 6, makes

Apportionment

e.g., upon surrender, release, grant or devise of part of demised land. The right to apportionment is a question of law, the apportionment may be by consent or by judicial process or, under the Landlord and Tenant

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Any property

of 'property' in law. Off course, the property must be heritable property in respect to which alone the question of succession may legitimately arise, Angurbala Mullick v. Debabrata Mullick, AIR 1951 SC 293 (297): 1951 SCR 1125.

American Law

Code Napoleon. Though the decisions of the Courts of the United States are often helpful in elucidating analogous questions, and accordingly are frequently quoted in text-books by English writers and sometimes cited in argument, they have no

Account or Accompt

Arbitration Act, 1889, in any cause or matter (other than a criminal proceeding by the Crown) if the question in dispute consists wholly or in part of matters of account the Court or a judge may order

Aid prayer

the tenant for life, etc., from the reversioner or remainderman, when the title to the inheritance was in question. It was a plea in suspension of the action, Com. Dig. 'Abide,' B. 5.

Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923

mortgagor under a contract of tenancy not binding on the mortgagee. 5. Arbitration (ss. 16-19 and Sch. II.)--Any question or difference between landlord and tenant of a holding, arising out of any claim for compensation payable under

Affirmation

'I A. B. solemnly and sincerely affirm and declare as follows' [or 'that as touching the matters in question I will speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but truth']. For the purposes of the (English)

Advocate, King's

Advocates, appointed by letters patent, whose office was to advise and act as counsel for the Crown in questions of civil, canon, and international law. It is believed that the office has never been formally abolished.

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