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Advow, or Avow, or Avouch
Advow, or Avow, or Avouch [under the feudal system, when the right of a tenant was impugned, he had to call upon his lord to come forward and defend his right. This, in the Latin of the time, was called advocare, Fr. voucher a garantie, to vouch or call to warrant. As the calling the lord of the fee to defend the right of the tenant involved the admission of all the duties implied in feudal tenancy, it was an act jealously looked after by the lords, and advocare, or the equivalent, Fr. avouer, to avow, came to signify the admission by a tenant of a certain person as feudal superior. Finally, with some grammatical confusion, the words advocare, and avow or avouch, came to be used in the sense of performing the part of the vouchee, or person called on to defend the right impugned. Wedgw.], to justify or maintain an act, e.g., one distrains for rent, and he that is distrained brings an action of replevin; if the distrainer in his defence justify or maintain his act, he is said to advow or...
Quest
The act of seeking or looking after anything attempt to find or obtain search pursuit as to rove in quest of game of a lost child of property etc...
Sentence
Sentence, denotes 'A person who is convicted and sentenced to imprisonment is deemed to have been awarded that punishment even in the case where the sentence is suspended for some reason or other, State of Maharashtra v. Chandrabhan Tale, AIR 1983 SC 803: (1983) 3 SCC 387.Sentence, denotes the action of the court before which the trial is held, declaring the consequences to the convict of the fact thus ascertained. Any consequence which flows after conviction can be looked upon as sentence, Mohammad Shabir Maulamaiya v. State of Maharashtra, (1977) Mah LJ 338.Means the judgment that a court formally pronoun-ces after finding a criminal defendant guilty, the punishment imposed on a criminal wrongdoer, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1367.The expression 'sentence' must be restricted to a sentence which is final, conclusive and ultimate so far as the judicial remedies are concerned. The alternate interpretation is likely to lead to confusion, inconsistency and contradiction and in pr...
VerbarMedusa
The Gorgon or one of the Gorgons whose hair was changed into serpents after which all who looked upon her were turned into stone...
Explore
To seek for or after to strive to attain by search to look wisely and carefully for...
Skeptic
One who is yet undecided as to what is true one who is looking or inquiring for what is true an inquirer after facts or reasons...
Abstract of title
Abstract of title. A concise statement, usually prepared for a mortgagee or purchaser of real property, summarising the history of a piece of land including all conveyances interests, lines & encumbrances that reflect title to property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., an epitome of the evidence of title to property or power to deal with it.Every purchaser of land or real estate has an implied right to have an abstract of title delivered to him within a reasonable time, Compton v. Bagley, (1892) 1 Ch 313. As to registered land, see the Land Registration Act, 1925, s. 110, and Brickdale and Stewart-Wallace on the Land Registration Act, 1925.An abstract is said to be perfect if it deduces the title from the date fixed by the contract or by statute for its commencement and discloses every incumbrance affecting it, by setting out the material parts of all deeds, wills and other documents, and stating the facts on which it depends: fc. 1 Pres. 42, 207. The statutory period is thirty years,...
Corporation or body politic
Corporation or body politic, an artificial person es-tablished for preserving in perpetual succession certain rights, which being conferred on natural persons only would fail in process of time. It is either aggegate, consisting of many members, or sole, consisting of one person only, as a parson. It is also either spiritual, created to perpetuate the rights of the Church, or lay'sub-divided into civil, created for many temporal purposes, and eleemosynary, to perpetuate founders' charities. It is by virtue of the sovereign's prerogative exercised by a charter, or of an Act of Parliament, or of prescription, that the artificial personage called a corporation, whether sole or aggregate, civil or ecclesiastical, is created. The royal charter gives it a legal immortality, and a name by which it acts and becomes known. It has power to make bye-laws for its own government, and transacts its business under the authority of a common seal-its hand and mouthpiece; it has neither soul nor tangibl...
present sense impression
present sense impression : an out-of-court statement that describes or explains an event or condition and that was made during or immediately after the time the event or condition was perceived ;also : an exception to the hearsay rule allowing such a statement to be entered as evidence that what was asserted in the statement is true NOTE: Present sense impressions are excepted from the hearsay rule because the immediacy of the response is considered to render the statement trustworthy. “Look out, he's got a gun,” might be considered admissible as a present sense impression. ...
Award
Award [the primitive sense of ward is shown in the It. Guardare, Fr. regarder, to look. Hence, Prov. Fr. eswarder (answering in form to award), to inspect goods, and, incidentally, to pronounce them good and marketable; eswardenur, an inspector, Hecart. An award is accordingly, in the first place, the taking a matter into consideration and pronouncing judgment upon it; but in later times the designation has been transferred exclusively to the consequent judgment, Wedgw.], a document containing the determination of commissioners, under an Inclosure Act or other public statute; also an instrument embodying an arbitrator's decision on a matter submitted to him. It must follow the submission, but need not necessarily be in writing, unless so prescribed. An award is generally considered as published as soon as the arbitrator has done some act where by he becomes functus officio, and has declared, and can no longer change, his final mind. As soon as the award is executed, notice thereof shou...
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