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Directors

believed to be true, were not liable to a shareholder taking shares on the faith of such prospectus, reversed the law as to laid down. There are, however, qualifications to meet the case of withdrawal of consent

Appeal

especially the submission of a lower court's or agency's decision to a higher court for review and possible reversal e.g. the case is on appeal, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 94. Appeal is an application by

Diminution

Diminution, the act of making less, opposed to augmentation. In proceedings for the reversal of judgment, if the whole record be not certified, or not truly certified by the inferior Court, the

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Deed

reserve the rent at large, not specifying to whom made, since the rent will be annexed to the reversion and belong to the person for the time being entitled to the latter. (l) Conditions, conditional limitations, provisos

Curtesy of England

Furnivall, (1881) 17 Ch D 115. (3) The wife's estate must have been in possession and not in reversion expectant on a life estate or othr freehold estate. 2 Black. Comm. 127. (4) Birht of issue, alive

Counterplea

anyone to warrant his title, or prayed inaid of another whohad a larger estate, as of him in reversion, etc.; or where a stranger to the action came and prayed to be received to save his estate;

Concurrent leases

of the same premises, known as a concurrent lease or in more modern usage a lease of the reversion, is sometimes granted, for a term beginning before the expiration of the earlier lease and ending before or

Casu proviso

where a tenant in dower alienated in fee, or for life, etc., and it lay for him in reversion against the alienee, Fitz. N. B. 207. Abolished.

Casu consimill

for life, alienated in fee, or in tail, or for another's life, and was brought by him in reversion against the party to whom such tenant so alienated to his prejudice, and in the tenant's lifetime, Termes

Capias utlagatum

the Crown Office Rules of 1906, which also (by Rules 88-110) provide for procedure to outlawry and in reversal of outlawry.

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