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Overruling
Overruling, is an act of superior jurisdiction. A precedent overruled is definitely and formally deprived of all authority. If becomes null and void, like a repealed statute, and a new principle is authoritatively substituted for the...
More or less
More or less (sive plus siveminus). These words in a contract, which rests in fieri, will only excuse a very small deficiency in the quantity of an estate; for if there be a considerable deficiency, the...
New trial
New trial. If any defect of judgment happen from causes wholly extrinsic, i.e., arising from matters foreign to or dethors the record, the only remedy the party injured by it has (except formerly error coram nobis...
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Newspaper establishment
Newspaper establishment, means an establishment under the control of any person or body of persons, whether incorporated or not, for the production or publication of one or more newspapers or for conducting any news agency or...
Notes, Judge's
Notes, Judge's. a judge usually takes notes of the viva voce evidence given during the trial of an action, and these are in practice always referred to on appeal, although they cannot be obtained as a...
Original Writ or Original
Original Writ or Original [breve originale, Lat.], was the beginning or foundation of a real action at Common Law. It is also applied to processes for some other purposes. It was a mandatory letter issuing out...
Ornest
Ornest, the trial by battle, which does not seem to have been used in England before the time of the Conqueror, though originating in the kingdoms of the North, where it was practised under the name...
Pakka kaikari 'hissedar
Pakka kaikari 'hissedar', is a term used in Kumaun and Garhwal in a special sense. A kachcha kaikar seems to mean a tenant, while a pakka kaikar is in a sense a proprietor, Sohan Singh v....
Owner
Owner, for the purposes of the Public Health Act, 1936, s. 343, replacing s. 4 of the Public Health Act, 1875, the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, and the London Building Acts (Amendment) Act (5 Edw....
Palace
Palace. A palace, which is a royal residence, is privileged from the execution of legal process within its precints; but the privilege does not, it seems, extend to a royal palace, e.g., Hampton Court, which is...
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