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Money Bill
Money, means current coin; metal stamped in pieces as a medium of exchange and measure of value. Hence, anything serving the same purpose as coin, late ME. In mod. use applied indifferently to coin and to...
Wife
Wife [wif, Sax.; wiff, Dut,; wyf, Icel.; uxor, Lat.], a woman that has a husband. See HUSBAND AND WIFE. Wife includes a divorced Muslim wife, Zohara Khatoon v. Mohd. Ibrahim, AIR 1981 SC 1243: (1981) 2...
Sham
Sham, 1. Something that is not what it seems; a counterfeit, 2. A person who pretends to be something that he or she is not; a faker, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1380. Sham, means...
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Roman Catholics
Roman Catholics. Very severe laws, commonly called the penal laws, were passed against Roman Catholics, generally under the name of Papists (see that title), after the Reformation, an Act of Elizabeth, for instance, 13 Eliz. c....
Jus
Jus, law, right, equity, authority, and rule. A Roman 'magistratus' generally did not investigate the facts in dispute in such matters as were brought before him; he appointed a judex for that purpose, and gave him...
Money
Money, means current coin; metal stamped in pieces as a medium of exchange and measure of value. Hence, anything serving the same purpose as coin, late ME. In mod. use applied indifferently to coin and to...
Free-board, or freebord
Free-board, or freebord. The precise nature of free-board is not very clear, but it may be described as denoting certain rights enjoyed by the owner of an ancient park over a strip of ground, varying in...
Abode
Abode, habitation or place of residence; stay or continuance. In law it is used in different senses, to denote the place of a man's residence, or business, temporary or permanent. For some purposes in law a...
Neuralgia
A disease the chief symptom of which is a very acute pain exacerbating or intermitting which follows the course of a nervous branch extends to its ramifications and seems therefore to be seated in the nerve...
Lex loci contractus
Lex loci contractus (the law of the place of the contract). Generally speaking, the validity of a contract is decided by the law of the place where it was made. If valid there, it is, by...
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