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Mandata lictia strictam recipiunt interpretationem; sed illicitalatam et extensam

Mandata lictia strictam recipiunt interpretationem; sed illicitalatam et extensam. Bac. Max. Reg. 16.-(Lawful authority is to receive a strict interpretation; unlawful

Judicial decision

a judicial decision is merely a decision which is in fact exercised by the courts in accordance with strict legal procedure, whereas a quasi-judicial decision is given by an administrator or an administrative court entitled to follow

Settled land

Re Hunt, 1905, s Ch 418; (1906) 2 Ch 11). The case of property settled not by a strict settlement, i.e. as land, but through the medium of a trust for sale, was provided for by s.

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Intoxicating liquor

payable on every grant, renewal, transfer, or removal. 9. Police Regulations.--The holders of licences are subject to very strict police regulations. Their houses must be closed at certain hours, and may be entered by the police at

Interpretation of Statute

by authority, that the meaning of an ordinary word is to be found not so much in a strict etymological propriety of language, nor even in popular use, as in the subject or occasion on which it

Interpretation and construction

something more is being got out in the elucidation of the subject matter than can be got by strict interpretation of the words used. In the very full sense of the word 'construction' the judges have set

Institutions

treble, or quadruple value of the thing he would recover. The fifth is of Actions of good faith, strict law, and arbitrary. The sixth is of Actions in which the total of what is due is sued

In personam

defendant provided he is within the jurisdiction although the subject-matter of the suit may be situate abroad. 'The strict primary decree in this court,' said Lord Hardwicke, 'as a Court of Equity, is in personam', see Penn

Immediately

1995 SC 2195 (2198). [U.P. Zamindari Abolition and Land Reform Rules (1952), R. 285 D] Immediately, in its strict sense excludes any intervening time but from earliest judicial decision it has almost invariably meant the same as

Homicide

justifiable, excusable, or felonious. I. Justifiable, of three kinds: (a) Where the proper officer executes a criminal in strict conformity with his sentence. (b) Where an officer of justice, or other person acting in his aid, in

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