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Note a Bill, To

reason, if assigned, of non-payment. The making of this minute is called 'noting the bill.' See NOTING, and Smith's Merc. Law; Byles on Bills.

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.

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Seal-paper

the Rolls in like manner issued a seal-paper in respect of the business to be heard before him, Smith's Ch. Pr. 9.

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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