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A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies a division of time as a series of years months or days in which something is completed and ready to recommence and go on in the same order as the period of the sun or the earth or a comet...
Recommence
To commence or begin again...
Nonsuit
Nonsuit [non est prosecutus, Lat.]. The judge orders a nonsuit when the plaintiff fails to make out a legal cause of action or fails to support his pleadings by any evidence; whether the evidence which he gives can be considered any evidence at all of a cause of action is a question of law for the judge. By the former practice a plaintiff after a nonsuit might, on paying all costs, recommence his action; by the Rules of 1875 any judgment of nonsuit, unless the court or a judge should otherwise direct, had the same effect as judgment upon the merits for the defendant (English) Jud. Act, 1875, Ord. XLI., r. 6]; but this rule has been rescinded, and it is not reproduced. A plaintiff cannot now elect to be nonsuited, and if he offers no evidence it is the duty of the court to direct the jury to find a verdict for the defendant, and the usual consequences of such verdict will follow, Fox v. Star Newspaper Co., 1900 AC 19; but a judge cannot order a nonsuit on plaintiff's opening without the...
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