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Marginal note
by the King's Printers have not the authority of the legislature, and cannot alter the interpretation of the text. See Claydon v. Green, (1868) LR 3 CP 5, per Willes, J.; Sutton v. Sutton, (1882) 22 Ch
Paraphrase
A restatement of a text passage or work expressing the meaning of the original in another form generally for the sake of its
deconstruction
surface meaning This method questions the ability of language to represent a fixed reality and proposes that a text has no stable meaning because words only refer to other words that metaphysical or ethnocentric assumptions about the
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infra
infra : in the following text : below [see textual discussion accompanying note 22 "D. Q. Posin"] used in books, articles, and cases to
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(one's will or a provision in one's will) ineffective by purposely making marks through or otherwise marring the text of compare revoke NOTE: The text of the will or of the will's provision need not be rendered
Paragraph
Originally a marginal mark or note set in the margin to call attention to something in the text e g a change of subject now the character para commonly used in the text as a reference
Virulent
ground for exclusion from inheritance is treated from an entirely different angle in the Hindu religious and legal texts. The general emphasis in those contexts was of the competence of a man to perform his social and
Benefit of clergy
an indefeasible right, which had been merely a matter of royal favour, founding their principal argument upon this text of Scripture: 'Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.' They obtained great enlargements of this
Deed
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; and although it is not absolutely necessary
Consent
Consent, an act of reason accompanied with delib-erations, the mind weighing, as in a balance, the good or evil on either side. Consent supposes three things-a physical power, a mental power, and a free and serious...
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