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justify

[does not a denial of bail] 2 : to show to have had a legally sufficient reason or cause [a defendant may not set up his own standard of conduct to or excuse himself "State v. Doss, … justify -fied -fy·ing vt 1 : to prove or show to be just, right, or reasonable [does not a denial of bail] 2 : to show to have

judgment

nisi : a judgment that is not final or absolute [after default and judgment nisi requiring them to show cause why it should not be made final "Code of Alabama"] judgment non ob·stan·te ve·re·dic·to [-nÄ n-əb-stan-tē-ver-ə-dik-tō, -nȯn-ȯb-stÄ n-tā-vā-rā-dēk-tō]

Challenge

In capital cases the prisoner, in favorem vit', is allowed an arbitrary and capricious species of challenges, without showing any cause at all, limited, in cases of treason, to thirty-five, and in felonies to twenty, County Juries

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liability

have privity of contract with the seller or manufacturer called also product liability NOTE: A plaintiff usually must show that a defective product was the proximate cause of injuries, was defective at the time of purchase, and

Abatement

the slow progress of the ordinary forms of justice. (3) Plea in Abatement.-A defence by which a defendant showed cause to the Court why he should not be sued, or, if sued, not in the form adopted

Plea

answered and repelled or justified by the defendants plea In chancery practice a plea is a special answer showing or relying upon one or more things as a cause why the suit should be either dismissed delayed

Act of God

may have been. If this be correct, then the unpredictable nature of the occurrence will go only to show that the act of God in question was one which the defendant was under no duty to foresee … Common Carrier, tit. CARRIER. Accidental fire is not an act of God which can be traced to natural causes, Patel Roadways Ltd. v. Birla Yamaha Ltd., (2000) 4 SCC 91. Means an overwhelming, unpreventable event caused exclusively

Distringas

scire facias might be issued against a third person in whose hands they might happen to be, to show cause why they should not be delivered; and if the defendant still continued obstinate, then (if the judgment had

Ubi lex aliquem cogit ostendere causam necesse est quod causa sit justa et legitima

necesse est quod causa sit justa et legitima (2 Inst. 269), where the law compels a man to show cause, it is incumbent that the cause be just and lawful.

Decree nisi

of the decree nisi and before the decree is made absolute, any person may, in the prescribed manner, show cause why the decree should not be made absolute by reason of the decree having been obtained by collusion

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