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Jane Roe : a female party to a legal proceeding whose true identity is unknown or whose true name is being withheld compare john doe, richard roe ...
Richard Roe
Richard Roe : a male party to a legal proceeding whose true identity is unknown or whose true name is being withheld ;esp : the second of two such parties compare jane roe, john doe ...
Roe, Richard
Roe, Richard, otherwise Troublesome, the casual ejector and fictitious defendant in ejectment, whose services are no longer invoked. See JOHN DOE, and EJECTMENT....
Ejectment
Ejectment, the 'mixed' action at Common Law to recover the possession of land (which is real), and damages and costs for the wrongful withholding of the land (which are personal).Until abolished by the (English) C.L.P. Act, 1852, s. 168, the forms of this action exhibited the most remarkable string of fictions then recognized by the Courts of Common Law. The action was commen-ced by the party claiming title delivering to the party in possession a declaration in which the plaintiff (John Doe) and the defendant (Richard Roe) were fictitious persons. The declaration stated that a lease of the premises in question for a term of years had been made by the party claiming the title (who was the real plaintiff) to John Doe, who entered upon the land by virtue of such demise, and that afterwards Richard Roe, the casual ejector, entered and ousted John Doe during the continuance of his term. Appended to this declara-tion was a notice signed by Richard Roe, addressed to the tenant in possession (...
John Doe
John Doe : a party to legal proceedings (as a suspect) whose true name is unknown or withheld compare jane roe, richard roe ...
Beasts
Beasts f chase [fer' campestres, Lat.]; there are five, viz., the buck, doe, fox, marten, and roe; of the forest are the hart, hind, buck, hare, boar, and wolf, also called beasts of venery; of the warren are the hare, coney, and roe, Co. Litt. 233 a....
Roe
A roebuck See Roebuck...
Trout
Trout. The (English) Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act, 1923, consolidates and amends the enactments relating to salmon and trout and freshwater fisheries in England and Wales. Sects. 1 and 2 prohibit the use of a light, otter lath, or jack, wire or snare, spear, gaff, strokehaul, snatch or the like, or stone or other missile, or roe for catching or killing salmon, trout, or freshwater fish. A gaff or tailer may, however, be used as an auxiliary to angling with a rod and line. No explosive or noxious material must be used with intent to take or destroy fish in any waters (s. 9). Sect. 31 provides that -31.-(1) No person shall fish for, take, kill or attempt to take or kill trout-(a) Except with a rod and line, during the annual close season for trout; or(b) with a rod and line during the annual trout close season for rod and line; or(c) except with a rod and line, during the weekly close time for trout. (3) The annual close season for trout shall in any place in which a period has be...
Quarry
Quarry. As any place, not being a mine in which persons work in getting slate, stone, coprolites or other minerals, quarries are comprised in the list of non-textile factories and workshops given in Part II. of Sched. VI. of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901. See FACTORY. They are also subjected to inspection under the Metalliferous Mines Acts by the Quarries Act, 1894. As to the fencing of Quarries, see Quarry (Fencing) Act, 1887; A.G. v. Roe, (1915) 1 Ch 235. The powers of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Board of Trade by 10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 50. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Mines and Quarries.'As a noun the term 'quarry' has been defined as the spot where rock is quarried....an excavation or other place from which stone is taken by cutting, blasting or the like. It is open excavation usually for obtaining building stone, slate or limestone, Labour Inspector v. Chittapur Stone Quarrying Co. (P) Ltd., AIR 1972 SC 1177: (1972) 3 SCC 605: (1973) 1 SCR 83....
Casual ejector
Casual ejector, the fictitious Richard Roe in the mixed action of ejectment, before the fiction was abolished by the (English) C. L. P. Act, 1852. See Ejectment....
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