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Fees
steward to steward. When the steward made excessive charges, the copyholder might have brought an action on the case to recover the excess, and it has been suggested that an indictment would lie for extortion colore officii.
Electoral franchise
voter: by extending the household and lodger franchise of the boroughs to the counties, and including in both cases occupiers of dwelling-houses by virtue of office, service, or employment. The (English) Representation of the People Act, 1918,
Chattels or catals
mixed action of ejectment (q.v.), in which the plaintiff could recover the specific property was available in the case of; chattels real.' The (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 55 (x) provides a definition of 'personal
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Commorientes
accident or upon the same occasion. By English law, there was no presumption of survivorship in such a case, whereas by the Code Napoleon, and the Civil Law generally, there is a presumption that the physically stronger
Prima facie case
Prima facie case, a prima facie case does not mean a case proved to the hilt but a case which can
law of the case
esp. of law that has been decided (as by an appeals court) will not be reconsidered in the same case unless compelling circumstances warrant such reconsideration ;also : a matter of law considered as settled in a case
Void and voidable
is avoided from the day it is so set aside and not any day prior to it. In cases, where legal effect of a document cannot be taken away without setting aside the same, it cannot be
Public trustee
Act, and either as an original or a new trustee, or as an additional trustee, in the same cases and manner and by the same persons or Court as if he were a private trustee, with this
Access
for the reasonable enjoyment of his property, Lyon v. Fishmongers Co., (1876) 1 AC 662 (684); and the same case decides that an owner of land has a right of access to and from water whether tidal or
Analogy
Analogy, identity or similarity of proportion: where there is no precedent in point, in cases on the same subject, lawyers have recourse to cases in a different subject-matter but governed by the same
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