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Special case

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small business case

small business case A special type of chapter 11 case in which there is no creditors' committee (or the creditors' committee is deemed

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Jury

the county of London, the qualification for which is the same as for Middlesex); the qualification for a special jury, by s. 31 of the same Act, and the (English) Jurors Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. … Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act, 1919, women were disqualified at common law from acting as jurors except in the case of a Jury of Matrons (q.v.). Now the qualifications are the same for each sex. Certain persons, as

Arbitration

an umpire (s. 5), the powers of arbitrators and of the Court (s. 8), the statement of a special case (s. 9). Arbitrators have power to order specific performance (s. 7), an amount will carry interest at the … stage of the proceedings, and shall, if so directed by the Court, state in the form of a special case for the opinion of the Court any question of law arising in the course of the reference. See

National insurance

Approved Societies and Insurance Committees. Part IV. Financial Provisions relating to Approved Societies and Insurance Committees. Part V. Special Classes of Insured Persons. Part VI. Central Finance. Part VII. Central Administration. Part VIII. Legal and Miscellaneous. Part … employed on agricultural holdings, persons employed by their parents, persons wholly maintained by their employer, if, in each case, employed without money payment. (c) Husband or wife employed by his or her spouse. (d) Persons casually employed,

Pawn or Pledge

stipulated time, the title becomes absolute at law although equity allows a redemption. But in a pledge, a special property only passes to the pledgee, the general property remaining in the pledgor. Also, in the case of

damage

for losses sustained as a direct result of the injury suffered called also compensatory damages consequential damages : special damages in this entry direct damages : damages for a loss that is an immediate, natural, and foreseeable … jurisdictions. incidental damages : damages recoverable under section 2-715 of the Uniform Commercial Code in breach of contract cases for losses that include expenses incurred in handling and caring for goods which were the subject of the

Copyhold

are warranted by the common law, and of which the courts of law take judicial notice, without being specially pleaded; and (2) Particular, which prevail in some manors only, and which must be specially pleaded. They are … at the lord's will. The law certainly considers the freehold to be in the lord (except in the case of strict customary free holds, when the freehold is in the tenant), and the tenant to possess his

Case stated

Ord. XXXIV., the parties after writ may concur in stating questions of law in the form of a special case, or if it appear to the court or a judge from the pleadings or otherwise that there is … law which it would be convenient to have decided in that manner, they or he may order a special case to be stated. See Special Case. As to cases stated by justices of the peace on points of

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