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Cognovit actionem
or damages, and costs. It is supposed to be given in Court, and it impliedly authorizes the plaintiff's solicitor to do everything necessary in order to obtain judgment. By the (English) Debtors Act, 1869 (32 & 33
Constructive notice
to the purchaser arises, it has come to the knowledge of his counsel, as such, or of his solicitor or other agent, as such, or would have come to the knowledge of his solicitor or other agent,
Devolution issue
meaning of paragraph 1(b) of Schedule 6 to the Act of 1998 (Scetland Act, 1998), Hoekstra v. H.M. Advocate (PC), (2000) 3 WLR 1817. May well arise in advance of or every porsibility in the course of
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Instruct
Instruct, to convey information-as a client to a solicitor, or as a solicitor to a counsel; to authorise one to appear as advocate.
Public Authorities, Protection of
Rural Council, (1909) 100 LT 121; Brownlie v. Barrhead Magistrates, 1923, SC 915; and (2) costs as between solicitor an client if judgment given for defendant; and also (3) deprives a plaintiff of costs if he fail
barrister
before a British court ;esp : one who is allowed to argue before a British high court compare solicitor NOTE: Many countries in the Commonwealth (as England and Australia) and the Republic of Ireland divide the legal
Locke's Act
Locke's Act (English), (23 & 24 Vict. c. 127), the Solicitors Act, 1860, amending the law as to the admission etc., of solicitors. Secs. 22 (in part) and 34,
Law List
Law List, a list of barristers, solicitors, and other legal practitioners, giving their addresses, and the dates of their entering the profession. The present 'Law
Moral turpitude or delinquency
Moral turpitude or delinquency, Wherever conduct proved against an advocate is contrary to honesty, or opposed to good morals, or is unethical, it may be safely held that
Undertaking to appear
Undertaking to appear by a solicitor for a defendant an action. A solicitor not entering an appearance in pursuance of his written undertaking to
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