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Personality of laws
to express that the operation of a law is universal, they compendiously announce that it is a personal statute; and whenever, on the other hand, they wish to express that its operation is confined to the country
Settlement
members of settlor's family in a way that differs from what the beneficiaries would receive as heirs under statutes of descent and distribution-, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1377. (In the Poor Law), the fixture of
Discretion
rule, not by humour; it must not be arbitrary, vague, and fanciful, but legal and regular' (see CRAIES STATUTE LAW, 6th Edn., p. 273). Ramji Dayawala and Sons (P) Ltd. v. Invest Import, (1981) 1 SCC 80: AIR
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Lawful
compulsory, Julius v. Bishop of Oxford, (1880) 5 App Cas 182; see Craies, or Maxwell or Hardcastle on Statute Law.
In forma pauperis
by Courts of (English) Equity to defendants. The statute 11 Hen. 7, c. 12, is repealed by the Statute Law Revision and Civil Procedure Act, 1883, but its provisions and those of the Chancery Orders and Common Law
Office
of a magistrate ought not to be saleable.) Lord Coke (Co. Litt. 234 a) speaks of the above statute as 'a law worthy to be written in letters of gold, but more worthy to be put in
Arrest
committed and he has reasonable grounds for believing that the man arrested has committed that felony. 2. By Statute.--Any person found committing an offence under the (English) Larceny Act, 1916 (except against s. 31), or against the … in order to be legal, by virtue of a precept or writ issue out of some Court. The law of civil arrest (see MESNE PROCESS), so far as it still exists, is regulated by the Debtors Act,
Right of suit and right of appeal
in every person to bring a suit of a civil nature and unless the suit is barred by statute one may, at one's peril, bring a suit of one's choice. It is no answer to a suit, … a suit of one's choice. It is no answer to a suit, howsoever frivolous to claim, that the law confers no such right to sue. A suit for its maintainability requires no authority of law and it
Bargain and sale
and sale, A contract for the sale of real or personal property of any kind operating under the Statute of Uses as a conveyance of the land, or at Common Law, from early times of goods sold
Guaranty, or Guarantee
be accepted is not binding. At Common Law a guarantee need not have been in writing, but the Statute of Frauds (29 Car. 2, c. 3), s. 4, enacts that 'No action shall be brought whereby to
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