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verdict

invalid and constitute grounds for a mistrial "Faverty v. McDonald's Restaurants of Oregon, Inc., 892 P.2d 703 (1995)"] repugnant verdict : an impermissible verdict that contradicts itself since the defendant is convicted and acquitted of different crimes

Compatible

Capable of existing in harmony congruous suitable not repugnant usually followed by with

Repugnance

The state or condition of being repugnant opposition contrariety especially a strong instinctive antagonism aversion reluctance unwillingness as of mind passions principles qualities and the

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Act of Parliament

a prior one, not only expressly, but by implication, as when it is contrary thereto, i.e., so clearly repugnant that it necessarily implies a negative, but if the Acts can stand together, they shall have a concurrent

repugnancy

a legal instrument (as a contract or statute) [if two acts which cover the same subject matter are repugnant…, the latter operates to the extent of the as a repeal of the former "In re Miller, 107

Assent

word 'assent' is used purposefully indicating affirmative action of the proposal made by the State for having law repugnant to the earlier law made by Parliament. It would amount to accepting or conceding and concurring to the

Brehon Law

there appeared great show of equity in determining the right between party and party, but in many things repugnant quite, both to God's laws and man's.' This law was formally abolished by 40 Edw. 3, it being

Collateral warrants

father's disseisor with warranty, this was collateral to the elder brother. The whole doctrine of collateral warranty is repugnant to justice; and even its technical grounds are so obscure that the ablest legal writers are not agreed

Comity of Nations

operation of foreign laws, courts of justice presume the tacit adoption of them by their own government, unless repugnant to its policy or prejudicial to its interests. It is not the comity of the courts, but the

Crown

'restoring to the Crown the Ancient Jurisdiction over the State Ecclesistical and Spiritual and abolishing all Foreign Power repugnant to the same,' after repealing 1 & 2 P. & M. c. 8, reviving the Foreign Citations Act,the

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