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Money land

Money land. In equity, land articled or devised to be sold, and turned into money, is considered as money, and...

Possession

Possession, correctly understood, means effective physical control or occupation. The word 'possession' is sometimes used inaccurately as synonymous with the...

Purchaser

Purchaser, a buyer, a vendee; also the root of descent, from whom, under the (English) Inheritance Act, 1833, the descent...

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Umpire

Umpire [fr. imperator or impar, Lat.]. A submission to arbitration usually provides that in case of arbitrators not agreeing in...

Magna Carta

Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III...

Nemo debet bis vexari, si constat curi' quod sit pro una et eadem causa

Nemo debet bis vexari, si constat curi' quod sit pro una et eadem causa. 5 Co. 61, (No man ought...

Jury

Jury [fr. jurata, Lat.; jure, Fr.], a number of persons sworn to deliver a verdict upon evidence delivered to them...

Limitation of actions and prosecutions

Limitation of actions and prosecutions. By various statutes, of which the first was 21 Jac. 1, c. 16, the (English)...

Public servant

Public servant, has the same meaning as in s. 21 of the Indian Penal Code. [Arms Act, 1959 (54 of...

Notice

Notice, the making something known to a person of which he was or might be ignorant. Notice is either (1)...

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