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double jeopardy
or she has already been prosecuted - see also jeopardy, Amendment V to the Constitution in the back matter compare merger NOTE: The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution states that no person shall “be subject for the
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 general principle. This...
Equal protection
Equal protection, the guarantee against the denial of equal protection of the laws does not mean that identically the same rules of law should be made applicable to all persons within the territory of India in...
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Fees
Fees, perquisites allowed to officers in the administration of justice, as a recompense for their labour and trouble, ascertained either by Acts of Parlia-ment, by rule or order of Court, or by ancient usage; in modern...
Concurrent jurisdictions
Concurrent jurisdictions, the jurisdiction of several different tribunals, both authorized to deal with the same subject-matter at the choice of the suitor. Inequity, the jurisdiction was concurrent where no complete relief was obtainable at law. It...
Expressum facit cessare tacitum
Expressum facit cessare tacitum. Co. Litt. 210 a.-(What is expressed makes what is implied to cease.) See Broom's Max. Where a deed contains express covenants, no implication of any other covenants on the same subject-matter can...
most-favored-nation clause
most-favored-nation clause : a clause in a treaty granting to a nation in certain stipulated matters the same terms as are then or may thereafter be granted to any other nation
repugnancy
sections of a legal instrument (as a contract or statute) [if two acts which cover the same subject matter are repugnant…, the latter operates to the extent of the as a repeal of the former "In re
Obtundent
A substance which sheathes a part or blunts irritation usually some bland oily or mucilaginous matter nearly the same as demulcent
In simili materia
In simili materia, dealing with the same or a kindred subject-matter.
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