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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 c. 27, repealed by Stat.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 and Civil Procedure Act, 1883, as having been superseded by s. 24 of the Judicature Act, 1873.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....
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 ...
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....
City's cash
City's cash, the revenues derived from the corpora-tion's estates are usually known as 'city's cash', and are applied for charitable, educational, ceremonial and other purposes, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 29, para 60, p. 45....
Scroop's Inn
Scroop's Inn, an obsolete law society, also called Serjeant's Place, opposite to St. Andrew's Church, Holborn, London...
On one's own account
On one's own account, means 'for one's own sake; on one's responsibility, American Express Bank Ltd. v. Calcutta Steel Co., (1993) 2 SCC 199 (209)....
Oswald's law hundred
Oswald's law hundred, an ancient hundred in Worcestershire, so called from Bishop Oswald, who obtained it from King Edgar to be given to St. Mary's Church in Worcester. It was exempt from the sheriff's jurisdiction, and comprehends 300 hides of land, Camd. Brit....
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