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Public well
gratuitously, and was of right, by the inhabitants in the vicinity for drawing water is a public well, Smith v. Archibald, 5 AC 489.
Novell'
Geschichte der Novellen. See also Betray zu Litterar-Geschichte des Novellen Auszugs von Julian; Von Haubold, Zeitschrift, etc., iv.; Smith's Dict. of Antiq.
Sentence of a Court
has to be served by virtue of s. 9 of the (English) Penal Servitude Act, 1864; R. v. Smith, (1909) 2 KB 756. See the (English) Infanticide Act, 1922, when in certain cases a verdict of infanticide
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Wager
wagering contract may be recovered if not, or before it has been, paid over, Burge v. Ashley and Smith, (1900) 1 QB 744; Hyams v. Stuart King, (1908) 2 KB 696. See, generally, the Betting and Lotteries
Void
or otherwise held to be invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction', Judicial Review of Administrative Action, De Smith, Woolf and Jowell, 1995 Edn., p. 259-60. Void, denotes 'if an act or decision, or an order or
Value
without adjunct, always means in political economy, value in exchange; or, as it has been called by Adam Smith and his successors, exchangeable value, a phrase which no amount of authority that can be quoted for it
Turpis causa
the maxim being Ex turpi causa non oritur actio, see Collins v. Blantern, (1766) 2 Wils 341; 1 Smith, L.C.
Tree
trees to overhang: per Lord Macnaghten, ibid.; and an action lies for damage to crops by overhanging trees, Smith v. Giddy, (1904) 1 KB 448. By the highway Act, 1835, ss. 64-66, no tree may be planted
Think fit
fit' so to do and would came to the conclusion that he did not in fact 'think fit', Smith v. Thompson, (1896) 1 Ch 71.
Tax
of the three sources of income (rent, profits, or wages); or a uniform tax on all of them, Smith's Wealth of Nat., b. 5, ch. ii.; Mill's Pol. Econ., b. 5, chs. Ii., iii. All duties of
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