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Surety and guarantor
Surety and guarantor, are both answerable for debt, default, or miscarriage of another but liability of guarantor is, strictly speaking, secondary, and collateral, while that of surety is original, primary and direct. In case of suretyship there
Sufferance, Tenancy at
Sufferance, Tenancy at. This is the least and lowest estate which can subsist in realty. It is in strictness not an estate, but a mere possession only it arises when a person after his right to the
Stet processus
Stet processus, an order of the Court to stay proceedings. Strictly, it can only be made with the consent of the parties; but where the ends of justices will
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Speaker of the House of Commons
office till the dissolution of the Parliament in which he was elected, and is expected to preserve a strictly impartial attitude. a substantial salary is provided with a furnished residence. At the end of his official labours
Sales tax
a tax in the sense that a provision by which a tax is imposed has to be construed strictly, regardless of the hardship that such a construction may cause either to the treasury or to the taxpayer.
Payment of Money into Court
banker to the Court for the purpose of proceedings commenced in that Court. Payment into Court is not strictly a defence; it is rather an attempt at a compromise. No such plea was known to the Common
Rigor juris
Rigor juris, means the strictness of law, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1326
Remainder
as to the construction of equitable interests. A remainder may be limited in all freehold estates, but not strictly and technically in chattels real and personal, although these may be limited over after a previous limitation or
Registration of title of land
incumbrances are protected (1) by means of caution or restriction against the registered proprietor (ss. 54 and 58). Strictly speaking, cautions and restrictions are not incumbrances on the land, but they serve to give the persons entitled
Re-entry
e.g., twenty-one days, or if there shall be any breach of the lessee's covenants. A proviso for re-entry, strictly speaking, is only applicable to corporeal hereditaments; see Sitwell v. Londesborough (Earl of), (1905) 1 Ch 465. A
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