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Measure of damage

s. 1, see Rose v. Ford, (1936) 1 KB 90; DAMAGES; ACTIO PERSONALIS and LAW REFORM; DEATH. See Smith's L.C., notes to Haldey v. Baxendale, and Maine on Damages.

Metayer system

in implied in the words metayer, mezzajuolo, and medietarius) one-half, 1 Mill's Pol. Econ. 296 and 363; and Smith's Wealth of Nat., bk. Iii. c. ii.

Electric Railway v. Loach, (1916) 1 AC 719; and see VOLENTI NONFIT INJURIA. Consult Beven on Negligence and Smith's Leading Cases, sub tit, Coggs v. Bernard. Negligence is absence of reasonable or prudent care which a reasonable

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by next post, the expression is understood to mean next reasonable convenient post, Derbyshire v. Parker, (1805) 2 Smith KB 195 (198); Burrow's Words and Phrases.

Levy

and rate of levy. Levy of duty does not mean actual collection, Collector of Central Excise, Chandigarh v. Smith Kline Beecham Consumer Health Care Ltd., AIR 2003 SC 829. [see Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944)]

Lien

person to whom he conveys it will have a perfect title to it upon discharging the lien. Consult Smith's Merc. Law; Coote on Mortgages, 9th Edn., pp. 1375 et seq. And 1396et seq.; Atkinson on Sol. Lien.

Jesuits

to jurisdiction to compel Mr. Kennedy to issue the summons; the sections were virtually a dead letter [Re Smith, (1914) 1 Ch 937], and are now repealed as to Great Britain by the Roman Catholic Relief Act,

Lensee

served by the mortgagee, Church Comrs for England v. Ve-Ri-Best Manufacturing Co., (1957) 1 QB 238; see also Smith v. Spaul, 2003 LR 983 (QB) (CA).

Leading cases

'leading case.' The leading cases on important points of law were collected and published by Mr. John William Smith with copious notes in1837, and a similar collection on points of equity, by Messrs. White and Tudor, in

Law merchant

Common Law, has been gradually engrafted into it and made to form part of it. See Introduction to Smith's Merc. Law. Law merchant, means a system of customary law that developed in Europe during the Middle Ages

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