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Apices juris non sunt jura
are not laws.)-'An excellent and a profitable law, concurring with the wisedome and judgment of ancient and latter times, that have disallowed curious and nice exceptions tending to the overthrow or delay of justice':Co. Litt. 304 b,
Anon
for some reason or other was unable or unwilling to state the names of the parties. In modern times the names of the parties in nullity suits in the Divorce Court are generally concealed under initials, and
And, or
be so read. The word 'or' is normally disjunctive and the word 'and' is normally conjunctive. But at times they are read as vice-versa to give effect to the manifest intent of the legislature as disclosed from
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Ancient demesne
manors, which, though now granted to private persons, were in the actual possession of the Crown in the times of Edward the Confessor and William the Conqueror, and appear to have been so by the great survey
Altar
of England should be covered during the communion service with 'a fair white linen cloth,' and at other times with 'silk or other decent stuff.
Allocatur exigent
Allocatur exigent, a writ which was issued when an outlaw had not been exacted five times under the exigi facias, in order to complete the number of exactions.
Affairs of State
the routine day-to-day administration and also highly confidential acts involving defence and foreign relations, and also in modern times the multifarious activities of a welfare State, State of Punjab v. Sodhi Sukhdev Singh, AIR 1961 SC 493
Re reiterate
To reiterate many times
Action
proceedings in courts of law as 'action' and of those in courts of equity as 'suit.' In olden times there was a more marked distinction, for an action was considered as terminating when judgment was rendered, the
VerbarSolarium
freely exposed to the sun anciently an apartment or inclosure on the roof of a house in modern times an apartment in a hospital used as a resort for convalescents
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