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Trade Union

officials thereof on behalf of themselves and all other members of the trade union in respect of any tortious act alleged to have been committed by or on behalf of the trade union, shall not be entertained

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Sufferance, Tenancy at

whenever the true owner actually enters upon the lands, by which he declares the continuance of the tenant tortious and wrongful, or demands possession, or brings his action of ejectment to recover possession, which he may do

Particular tenants, Alienation by

was entitled to enter immediately. Fines and recoveries having been abolished and a feoffment having no longer a tortious operation (English) (Real Property Act, 1845, s. 4), a tenant, by creating a larger interest than he has

Lunatic

of unsound mind by inquisition, see In re Walker, (1905) 1 Ch 160. As to their liability for tortious acts, see Clerk and Lindsell, 7th Edn. P. 45.As to the criminal responsibility of insane persons, see MACNAUGHTON'S

Innocent conveyances

they are only void, pro tanto, for the excess. But a feoffment of such larger estate was a tortious conveyance, and therefore, under such circumstances, would have been void altogether, and produced a forfeiture. But by the

Feoffment

in the section. See also REGISTRATION OF LAND. A feoffment was a conveyance which might have had a tortious effect, and if a person attempted to convey by it a greater freehold than he had, he forfeited

Exemplary damages

Exemplary damages, damages on an unsparing scale, given in respect of tortious acts, committed through malice or other circumstances of aggravation. In Belt. v. Lawes, (1884) 2 QBD 356, an

Duress

In order to constitute duress by imprisonment, either the imprisonment or the duress consequent upon it must be tortious and unlawful. By the Common Law, a contract made during duress is not void, but voidable; and the

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