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Duress

is practised may avail himself of the duress as a special defence to an action thereupon at any time. But the

In forma pauperis

such larger sum not exceeding 100l. as the judge in special circumstances may direct. In London and the District Registries lists

on Judgment, statute or recognizance, inquisition of debt, obligation, or specialty, or acceptance of office, shall affect any lands, tenements, or … set forth in the inquisition, may enter an appearance and plead to the extent; issue is then joined, and it is

District Court

District Court, means, in any area for which there is a city civil court, that court, and in any other...

Deceit

337]. Under the (English) Companies Act, 1929, s. 37, a special action for deceit will lie at the instance of any … of deceit, which was an action brought in the Common Pleas to reverse a judgment obtained in any real action, by

Damage-cleer

gratuity, given to the prothonotaries and their clerks, for drawing special writs and pleadings; but it was taken away by 17 … a fee assessed of the tenth part in the Common Pleas, and the twentieth part in the King's Bench and Exchequer,

Coroner

5, c. 25). A coroner is required to give a special certificate to permit cremation of a body upon which he … Law, so called because he has principally to do with pleas of the Crown, appointed in boroughs by the Borough Council

Woman

At Common Law words imputing unchastity to a woman required special damage to be actionable; but this injustice was put an

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