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Judge
Judge [fr. juge, Fr.; judex, Lat.], one invested with authority to determine any cause or question in a Court of judicature. The word 'judge' denotes not only every person who is officially
Specific performance
Act, 1854, however, imparted to the Common Law writ of mandamus a little more efficacy by provisions since superseded by s. 24 of the Judicature Act, 1873, now by Judicature Act, 1925, s. 36, and the (English) … agreement. By the Judicature Act, 1873, s. 34 [see now (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 56 (1)], all causes and matters for the specific performance of contracts between vendors and purchasers of real estates, including contracts for
Conscience, Courts of
such order therein as was consonant to equity and good conscience. The county courts established in 1846 have superseded them. … in the City of London and other towns. The ordinary constitution of these courts, which were generally for causes of debt to the amount of 40s. only, but often to the amount of 5l. was to examine
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Arrest of judgment
record which vitiated the proceedings. (See now R.S.C. Ords. XXVII. And XXXIX.) Judgment may be arrested for good cause in criminal cases, if the indictment be insufficient. See Archbold's Criminal Pleading. Means the staying of judgment after … before trial or before judgment is entered, so that the motion in arrest of judgment has been largely superseded, Black Law Dictionary 7th Edn., p. 105. An arrest of judgment (under common law) was the technical term
Levari facias
from the issues and profits of the land, and from the sale of the chattels. This writ, long superseded by the writ of elegit, was formally abolished by the (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1883, s. 146, sub-s. 2. … Levari facias (that you caused to be levied), a writ of execution at Common Law, commanding the sheriff to levy or make of
Vice-Admiralty Courts
Act, 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 27), by which (see s. 17) Vice-Admiralty Courts are abolished, and superseded (see s. 2) by Colonial Courts with unlimited jurisdiction in Admiralty, subject to an appeal (see s. 6) … Vice-Admiralty Courts, tribunals established in his Majesty's possessions beyond the seas with jurisdiction over maritime causes, including those relating to prize. See 3 Steph. Com. The Vice-Admiralty Courts Act, 1863 (26 Vict. c. 24),
Scire facias
Scire facias [Lat.] (that you cause to know), a judicial writ, founded upon some record, and requiring the person against whom it is brought … A scire facias was formerly resorted to in Chancery suits, when they became abated; but this mode became superseded in practice by the order of revivor, which see.
Civil Law
of subsisting laws; and Servius Tullius, 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 … up to that time; and thus the substance of many thousand treatises is compressed into one work which superseded all the then existing Digests, and rendered unnecessary references, which had become not only laborious but almost impossible.
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