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Public policy

Public policy, connotes some matter which concerns public good and the public interest. Expression does not admit of precise definition....

Prescription [fr. pr'scribo, Lat.], title produced and authorised by long usage. It is known in the Roman Law as usucapio....

Interested, a close relative who is a very natural witness cannot be regarded as an interested witness. The term 'interested'...

Consideration. Any act of the promisee (the person claiming the benefit of an obligation) from which the promisor (the person...

Confusion of boundaries, was a jurisdiction of equity, concurrent with the Common Law. The Civil Law was far more provident...

Fee [fr. feoh, Sax.; fee, Dan., cattle; feudum, Med. Lat.; feu, Scot.], property peculiar; reward or recom-pense for services. See...

Reparation, is taken to mean the making of amends by an offender to his victim, or to victims of crime...

Mandate [fr. mandatum, Lat.], a judicial command, charge, commission. Also, a bailment of goods, without reward, to be carried from...

Manufacture, implies a change but every change is not manufacture. But something more is necessary and there must be transformation,...

New trial. If any defect of judgment happen from causes wholly extrinsic, i.e., arising from matters foreign to or dethors...