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Burial ground
ground, includes any churchyard, cemetery or other ground, whether consecrated or not, which has been at any time set aside for the purpose of interment, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 10, 4th Edn., Para 1099, p. 817. Burial
Tithe Rent-Charge
Sec. 7 relates to the issue of stock subject to specified deductions in the Third Schedule and deductions set aside to provide for liabilities to repair chancels, etc. (see s. 29), and the Bank of England is to
Warrant of Attorney
or upon illegal consideration, the Court will order it to be delivered up to be cancelled, and will set aside all proceedings upon it, and so if a material alteration be made in it. If the warrant is
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defense
evils defense in this entry meritorious defense : a defense that is based on evidence sufficient to warrant setting aside a default judgment against the defendant in civil litigation partial defense : a defense by which the
Acquittal
had been acquitted by the trial Court under a major charge and the High Court on appeal sets aside the acquittal under the major charge and sentences the person to imprisonment for life or to a sentence … guilty of the charged offence. [fr. acquitter, Fr.; quietus, Lat., to free, acquit, or discharged], a deliverance and setting free of a person from the suspicion or guilt of an offence; also to be free from entries
Audit
(1887) 36 CD 787; Re Republic of Bolivia, etc., Ltd., (1914) 1 Ch 139; and as to setting aside his certificate, Thacker v. Elder, 1899 AC 451. See COMPANY. The accounts of friendly societies are audited under … years. The (English) Companies Act, 1929, ss. 132 to 134 now provide for annual appointment of auditors and sets out their duties. Ss. 122-131 contain express provisions for compulsory annual accounts, whereas in the 1908 Act no
Pending proceedings
Pending proceedings, proceedings for setting aside the arbitral award in appeal is pending proceedings. Any reopening of proceedings will presuppose finality of such
Gift
Such a transaction is apt to be very jealously scrutinized in a Court of Equity, and will be set aside on proof of undue influence (see that title), or of a fiduciary relationship of the donee to the
Marital rights
without the concurrence of her intended husband, the husband after the marriage was entitled to have such settlement set aside as a 'fraud on his marital rights' (see Strathmore v. Bowes, (1789) 1 Ves Jun 22; 1 Wh.
Merits, affidavit of
Merits, affidavit of. This instrument is necessary when a defendant seeks to set aside, for irregularity, a judgment signed or other proceeding. The term 'merits,' in an affidavit of this nature, is
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