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Queen's proctor, means a solicitor that represents the crown in domestic-relations, probate, and admiralty cases. For example, in a suit for divorce or nullity of marriage, the Queen's proctor might intervene to prove collusion between the parties. Also termed (when a king reigns) King's proctor, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1259....
King's keys
King's keys. The King's keys are, in law phrase, the crow-bars and hammers used to force doors and locks in execution of the King's warrant, Scott's Antiquary....
Subject to surveyor's report
Subject to surveyor's report, means when a property is agreed to be purchased subject to surveyor's report, it is perfectly well-understood in the business of sale and purchase of houses, that, when a person says that he will buy 'subject to surveyor's report, although he agrees to everything else, what it means is that he will not decide whether he will take the house until he has seen what his surveyor says about it, Marks v. Board, (1930) 46 TLR 424: Burrow's Words and Phrases....
Dead man's part
Dead man's part, the remainder of an intestate's movables, besides that which of right belonged to his wife and children. This was formerly made use of in masses for the soul of the deceased; subsequently, the administrators applied it to their own use and benefit, until the 1 Jac. 2, c. 17, subjected it to distribution among the next of kin. In Scotland the 'dead's part' of a man's personalty is that part of which he is entitled to dispose by will. See REASONABLE PARTS....
Cairn's Act (English)
Cairn's Act (English), for enabling the court of Chancery to award damages, and try questions of fact with a jury, 21 & 22 Vict. c. 27, repealed by Stat. Law Rev. and Civil Procedure Act, 1883, as having been superseded by s. 24 of the Judicature Act, 1873. See R. S. C. Ord. L., r. 6, and Judicature Act,1925, s. 36....
Battered Woman's syndrome
Battered Woman's syndrome, means the psycho-logical symptoms buffered by a woman repeatedly abused by a mate (as a husband), Battered Woman's syndrome is used as defense to violent criminal charges (as homicide). Evidence of repeated abuse is used to show that the defendant acted in self-defence even though the threat or danger was not imminent; Battered Woman's syndrome is also used as a mitigating factor in sentencing, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 46....
Banker's Draft
Banker's Draft. A banker's draft is defined by s. 1 of the (English) Bills of Exchange Act (1882) Amendment Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 44), as 'a draft payable on demand drawn by or on behalf of a bank upon itself whether payable at the head office or some other office of the bank.' This Act makes ss. 76 and 82 of the (English) Bills of Exchange Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 61), applicable to a banker's draft as if it were a cheque....
Banker's Books
Banker's Books, includes ledgers, day books, cash-books, account-books and other records used in the ordinary business of the bank, whether in written form or kept on microfilm, magnetic tape, or other forms of retrieval mechanism, State of Norway's Application, (1987) QB 433; Williams v. Summer Field, (1972) 2 QB 513.Banker's Books, includes ledgers, day books, cash-books, account-books and all other records used in the ordinary business of the bank, whether these records are kept in written form or stored in a microfilm, magnetic tape or any other form of mechanical or electronic data retrieval mechanism, either onsite or at any offsite location including back-up or disaster recovery site of both, Banker's Books Evidence Act, 1891, sec. 2(3)...
Banker's acceptance
Banker's acceptance, is a short-term credit instrument issued by an importer's bank that guarantees payment of an exporter's invoice, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 43....
arm's length
arm's length : the condition of the parties to a business deal in which each has independent interests and one does not dominate the other often used in the phrase at arm's length [a contract made at arm's length] arm's-length adj ...
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