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axation of costs

of taxation is pointed out by that enactment, and in particular it is provided (with an exception for special circumstances) that if the bill when taxes be less by a sixth part than the bill delivered, the … one party in an action from the other. In the High Court taxation is carried out by Taxing Masters who are Masters of the Supreme Court (R.S.C. Ord. LXI., r. 1B), and in county courts by the

Taxation of costs

of taxation is pointed out by that enactment, and in particular it is provided (with an exception for special circumstances) that if the bill when taxes be less by a sixth part than the bill delivered, the … one party in an action from the other. In the High Court taxation is carried out by Taxing Masters who are Masters of the Supreme Court (R.S.C. Ord. LXI., r. 1B), and in county courts by the

Partners of a firm

em-ployees working under the firm. It may be that a partner is being paid some remuneration for any special attention which he devotes but that would not involve any change of status and bring him within the … agent of the other. The position of a partner qua the firm is thus not that of a master and a servant or employer and employee which concept involves an element of subordination but that of equality.

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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 … Employment under a contract of service or apprenticeship. (b) Employment under a contract of service or apprenticeship as master or a member of the crew of any ship registered in the United Kingdom. (c) Employment as an

De lunatico inquirendo, writ

mind. Those judges [see (English) Jud. Act, 1873, s. 17; Jud. Act, 1875, s. 7] to whom, by special authority from the sovereign, the custody of idiots and lunatics is entrusted may, upon petition or information, grant … that an issue be tried before a judge of the High Court or refer the matter to the Master in Lunacy with a view to the appointment of a receiver. Applications for inquisitions are seldom made now,

Person of unsound mind

65. The Lord Chancellor's Visitors, who are independent of the Board of Control, report to the Judge or Master in Lunacy. The (English) Mental Treatment Rules, 1930, chiefly relate to the reception of lunatics, and their proper … (1) An order of judicial authority (county Court judge, stipendiary or police magistrate, or justice of the peace specially appointed) for the detention as persons of unsound mind of any such person not so found by inquisition.

Negligence

positively enjoining the act causing damage; even in this last-mentioned case the defendant would still be under a special duty to take precautions, as held in the Dominion case, ubi supra. So also an employer is liable … owned by the same company, Carpue v. London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Co., (1844) 5 QB 747] Master and Servant.--A master is responsible to the public, and also, under certain conditions, to his servant, for the

Incorporated Law Society

(22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 37). Further statutory powers are vested in the Committee appointed by the Master of the Rolls under s. 4 of the Act, by whom all complaints against Solicitors for professional misconduct … s. 21. On the decay of the Inns of Chancery, which in their later aspect were the Inns specially appropriated to attorneys, a Society was formed called ''The Society of Gentlemen Practices in the several Courts of

Solicitor

that of the client, not of the solicitor. Transactions between a solicitor and his client are subject to special scrutiny by the Hubbard, 1923 AC 673. S. 59 enacts that the remuneration of solicitors in contentious business … provides for the registration of Articles of clerkship, and s. 3 for the admission of solicitors by the Master of the Rolls. A Committee of the Law Society investigates charges made against solicitors and may strike offenders

Copyhold

1071, L. 24. The Court Rolls and other manorial documents have been placed under the superintendence of the Master of the Rolls, but the possession and care of these documents remains in the lord of the manor … 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

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