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Barrier

A carpentry obstruction stockade or other obstacle made in a passage in order to stop an enemy

intervene

514 (1994)"] 2 a : to come in or between by way of hindrance or modification [ to stop a fight] b : to become a party to a legal proceeding begun by others in order to

Carbon process

paper to some other support and developed by washing the unexposed portions being dissolved away If the process stops here it is called single transfer if the image is afterward transferred in order to give an unreversed

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Nonsuit

A neglect or failure by the plaintiff to follow up his suit a stopping of the suit a renunciation or withdrawal of the cause by the plaintiff either because he is satisfied … he can not support it or upon the judges expressing his opinion A compulsory nonsuit is a nonsuit ordered by the court on the ground that the plaintiff on his own showing has not made out his

Court-leet

the nature of a common nuisance,' and still having 'power to impose fines for certain offenes, such the stopping up of ways': Solicitor's Journal,Vol. 49, p. 493. The Court-leet is a court of record appointed to be … and county court, Steph. Com., Book VI., Ch. xiv. The lord was compellable to hold a court by mandamus, and a leet was forfeited by non user and by acts of abuser. By the (English) Law of

Civil Law

the sixth king, enacted many wise and good laws to maintain the cause of the poor, and to stop the oppressions of the rich. He also revived many of the obsolete laws of Romulus and Numa Pompilius. … 462, A.U.C. 301) three commissioners are said to have been chosen by the patricians to visit Greece in order to collect materials for a code; upon their return, after an absence of three years, ten commissioners, including

Deed

language employed should be sufficient in point of law, intelligible without punctuation, and clear without the aid of stops or parentheses. Usage has arranged the text of a conveyance inter partes in a formal and well-understood sequence; … or by the express terms of a power. See POWER. In practice, however, every deed is attested, in order to render it more easy of proof. It was expressly enacted by the repealed (English) Common Law Procedure

Cheque

775; and Lloyds Bank, Ltd. v. Savory & Co., (1933) 49 TLR 116. As to the effect of stopping a cheque, see Cohen v. Hale, (1878) 3 !. BD 371; and of alteration, Slingsby v. District Bank, … banker and not expressed to be payable otherwise than on demand. [Indian Stamp Act, 1899, s. 2(7)] An order addressed to a banker requesting him to pay to (a) the person therein mentioned, or his order, or

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