Suit For Land - Law Dictionary Search Results

recover debts of record due to the Crown; it differs from an ordinary writ of execution at the suit of a subject, because under it the body, lands, and goods of the debtor may all be taken … differs from an ordinary writ of execution at the suit of a subject, because under it the body, lands, and goods of the debtor may all be taken at once, in order to compel the payment of

Champarty or champerty

campi partitio, Lat., a division of the land], properly a bargain between a plaintiff or defendant in a suit and a third person, campum partire, to divide between them the land or other matter sued for in

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Fine

offender, also called a ransom. See PENALTY. An amicable final agreement or compromise of a fictitious or actual suit to determine the true possessor of land, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 646. A sum of money

Decree

the rights of the parties with regard to all or any of the matters in controversy in the suit, Deep Chand v. Land Acquisition Officer, (1994) 4 SCC 99: AIR 1994 SC 1901. A decree in invitum

Information

Court of Exchequer, but is now instituted on the Revenue side of the King's Bench Division) is a suit for recovering money or other chattels, or for ob-taining satisfaction, in damages, for any personal wrong committed in the … recovering money or other chattels, or for ob-taining satisfaction, in damages, for any personal wrong committed in the lands or other possessions of the Crown. It is instituted to redress private wrongs, while criminal information are resorted

Maintenance

Maintenance, an officious intermeddling in a suit which in no wise concerns one, by assisting either party with money or otherwise to prosecute or defend … Com. 134. It is either ruralis, in the country as where one assists another in his pretensions to lands, by taking or holding the possession of them for him; or where one stirs up quarrels or suits

Bock-land, Boc-land, or Book-land

Matched in: Term Bock-land, Boc-land, or Book-land

Equitable estates and interests

Statute, being based on the elastic nature of trusts, introduced a more flexible disposition of legal interests in land. Under the (English) Statute of Frauds (29 Car. 2, c. 3, s. 7) trusts creating equitable estates or … Will. 4, c. 27), ss. 24 and 25, and 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 37) (imitation of suits), the (English) Judg-ments Act, 1838 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 110), extending 29 Car. 2, c. 3, s.

Intervention

the (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 181, the king's proctor, or any other person, may intervene in any suit for the dissolution of marriage, on the ground that the parties have been guilty of collusion, or that material … arrest, or in the fund in the registry (ibid., r. 24). As to actions for the recovery of land, see ibid., r. 25. By the (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 181, the king's proctor, or any other

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