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Uncle and nephew

Uncle and nephew. A nephew, the son of a deceased elder brother, was by the general law in force immediately before the 1st January 1926, preferred in the inheritance to his uncle, a younger brother of...

Uxor et filious sunt nomina naturae

Uxor et filious sunt nomina naturae, wife and son are name of nature.

Vadlet

Vadlet, the king's eldest son-hence the valet or knave follows the king and queen in a pack of cards, Barr. on Stat. 344.

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Saturn

One of the elder and principal deities the son of Coeliglus and Terra Heaven and Earth and the father of Jupiter The corresponding Greek divinity was Kronos later CHronos Time

Publication

Publication, divulgation; proclamation; also 'the communication of defamatory words to some person or persons other than the person defamed' (Odgers on Libel). The publication of fair reports of legal proceedings in Court (other than ex parte...

Possibility on a possibility

Possibility on a possibility. Lord Coke lays it down as a rule that the event on which a remainder is to depend must be a common possibility, and not a double possibility, or a possibility on...

Honorary feuds

Honorary feuds, titles of nobility, descendible to the eldest son, in exclusion of all the rest.

Members of family

Members of family, a son-in-law can be regarded as a member of the family because the word 'family' is not to be construed in a narrow sense or meaning only a member of a Hindu joint...

La-aulad

La-aulad, means 'issueless' or without any son or daughter, Nirman Bahadur v. Fateh Bahadur Singh, AIR 1929 All 963. Means without male issue and not issueless, Bibi Umatul Rasul v. Nageshwar Bux Rai, AIR 1927 Pat...

Lada

Lada [fr. lathian, Sax.], a lath, or inferior Court of justice; also a course of water, or a broadway. Means purgation, exculpation. There were three kinds: (1) That wherein the accused cleared himself by his own...

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