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Rooks
Rooks are animals (fer' natur'), and no action is maintainable for
Caw
To cry like a crow rook or raven
Rook
Mist fog See Roke
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Chess
king a queen two bishops two knights two castles or rooks and eight pawns
Passeriformes
largest order of birds comprising about half the known species rooks finches sparrows tits warblers robins wrens swallows etc in four
Rookery
The breeding place of a colony of rooks also the birds themselves
Damage
a principle which ought logically to belong to the criminal, Rookes v. Barnard, (1964) AC 1129. Is to be contrasted with
Judicial discretion
judge at chambers. Discretion is thus defined by Coke, in Rooke's case, 40 Eliz.: 'Discretion is a science of understanding, to
Reasonable and probable cause
that finding to the jury in some cases, McDonald v. Rooke, (1835) 2 Bing (NC) 217. See Addison on Torts; Clerk
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