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libel
matters of public concern. In New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, the Court held that in order to recover damages a public person (as a celebrity or politician) who alleges libel (as by a newspaper) has to
County Courts
were first established in 1846 by 9 & 10 Vict. c. 95, 'the Act for the more easy recovery of Small Debts and Demands in England,' repealed and re-enacted with fourteen amending Acts by the consolidating and
Measure of damage
e.g., libel, slander, violence, malice, cruelty, or breach of promise of marriage. The actual loss cannot always be recovered, as the whole or a portion of the loss may be too remote to be the natural and
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Circuity of action
Circuity of action, a longer course of proceeding to recover a thing sued for than is needful--Terms de la Ley; also a general term denoting inter alia a
Limitation of actions and prosecutions
Real Property Limitation Act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 57), no land or rent is to be recovered but within twelve years after the right of action accrued, and under s. 2 of the same Act
Poundage
Poundage, a certain sum deducted from or added to each pound of any sum of money recovered by one person for another, to remunerate the person recovering the sum for his trouble. The sheriff's poundage
Detainer
after tender of amends, is not lawful, and he shall have an action of replevin against me to recover them, in which he shall recover damages for the detention, and not for the caption, because the original
Remainder
the gist of it must be who has the better title to the possession, and A. must necessarily recover. Thus far the party disseised, even during the disseisin, is considered in law to be the rightful tenant.
recapture
recapture -tured -tur·ing 1 : to capture again 2 : to recover or take (as an excess or gain) by law or agreement ;esp : to recover (a tax benefit)
trespass
Medieval Latin (trangressio) de bonis asportatis (trespass) concerning property carried off] : a common-law form of action to recover for trespass involving the carrying off of one's goods by another trespass on the case : a common-law
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