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Tenure
or payment of gravity or pension. Tenure when followed by words of office, means term of office, Punjab University v. Khalsa College, Amritsar, AIR 1971 P&H 479: 1971 Cur LJ 334. Means a right, term, or mode … of the soil), which it placed mediately, or immediately, in the Crown, from the dominium utile (the possessory title), the right to use the profits in the soil, designated by the term 'seisin,' which is the highest
Northern Ireland
including boroughs of Belfast ad Londonderry, with (1) a representation of 13 members (including one from the Queen's University of Belfast) in the Parliament of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland (see IMPERIAL Parliament), and (2) a … war, the armed forces of the Crown, treaties and relations with foreign States, or the Dominions, dignities and titles of honour, treason, aliens, naturalization or domicile, cables and wireless, aerial navigation, lighthouses, coinage, negotiable instruments, trade marks,
Circumstantial evidence
positive evidence of a fact from credible eye-witnesses is the most satisfactory that can be produced; and the universal feeling of mankind leans to this species of evidence in preference to that which is merely circumstantial. If … State of Maharashtra, (1977) 2 SCC 124: AIR 1977 SC 1164 (1166). Circumstantial evidence, which is itself of title weight may, taken together with other evidence, satisfy the onus of proof on the prosecution, R.V. Lydon (Sean),
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agency
perform only specified acts or to act only in a specified transaction compare general agency in this entry universal agency : general agency in this entry b : the office and function of an agent [even when … at the federal level are governed by the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, which is found at title 5 of the U.S. Code. independent agency : an agency that is not part of any of the
Equity
clear that human tribunals cannot cope with so wide a range or duties. (2) Taken in a less universal sense, Equity is used in contradistinction to strict law. This is Moral Equity, which should be the genius … upon the conscientious obligations of the suitors; and by adjudicating in personam, may compel specific performance (see that title) of a contract where law would only give damages for the breach of it, and stop a wrong
Charities, or Public Trusts
poor people; maintenance of sick and maimed soldiers and mariners, schools of learning, free schools, and scholars of universities; repairsof bridges, ports, havens, causeways, churches, sea-banks, and highways; education and preferment of orphans; the relief, stock, or … c. 27), the Trustees or Charitable Funds have become incorporated. See Tyssen's Charitable Bequests, 2nd Edn., and preceding title.
Oath
relaxed this rule, and the privilege of affirming (see AFFIRMATION) instead of taking an oath has now been universally granted by the (English) Oaths Act, 1888, by which-- Every person upon objection to being sworn, and stating, … 3, c. 104; 57Geo. 3, c. 19; 1 Vict. c. 91. As to 'Commissioners for Oaths,' see that title. As to the oath to be taken by members of the Parliament of the Irish Free State, see
particular successor
in his or her own right, and who is not liable for any debts of the succession compare universal successor … in the civil law of Louisiana : a successor (as a donee or buyer) who succeeds by particular title to the rights and obligations pertaining only to the property conveyed by the ancestor in title, who takes
Advocate
had, previously to their admission to that college, taken the degree of Doctor of Laws at an English university. The jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Courts in matters matrimonial and testamentary was in 1857 transferred to the Court … members of a college situate at Doctor's Commons, incorporated by charter, June 22, 8 Geo. 3, under the title of 'The College of Doctors of Law exercent in the Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Courts,' and had, previously to
Pandect', or Digesta
prevent the circulation of incorrect editions, three Ultramontane and three Citramon-tane scholars were chosen every year in the University of Bologna, and termed PECIARII; they were excused from all other munera publica, and held their sessions once … in Smith's Dict. of Antiq., voce 'Pandect'.' The Pandects are divided into fifty Books, each book containing several Titles, divided into Laws, and the Laws generally into several Parts or Para-graphs. In order to prevent the circulation
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Tenure
or payment of gravity or pension. Tenure when followed by words of office, means term of office, Punjab University v. Khalsa College, Amritsar, AIR 1971 P&H 479: 1971 Cur LJ 334. Means a right, term, or mode … of the soil), which it placed mediately, or immediately, in the Crown, from the dominium utile (the possessory title), the right to use the profits in the soil, designated by the term 'seisin,' which is the highest
Northern Ireland
including boroughs of Belfast ad Londonderry, with (1) a representation of 13 members (including one from the Queen's University of Belfast) in the Parliament of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland (see IMPERIAL Parliament), and (2) a … war, the armed forces of the Crown, treaties and relations with foreign States, or the Dominions, dignities and titles of honour, treason, aliens, naturalization or domicile, cables and wireless, aerial navigation, lighthouses, coinage, negotiable instruments, trade marks,
Circumstantial evidence
positive evidence of a fact from credible eye-witnesses is the most satisfactory that can be produced; and the universal feeling of mankind leans to this species of evidence in preference to that which is merely circumstantial. If … State of Maharashtra, (1977) 2 SCC 124: AIR 1977 SC 1164 (1166). Circumstantial evidence, which is itself of title weight may, taken together with other evidence, satisfy the onus of proof on the prosecution, R.V. Lydon (Sean),
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agency
perform only specified acts or to act only in a specified transaction compare general agency in this entry universal agency : general agency in this entry b : the office and function of an agent [even when … at the federal level are governed by the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, which is found at title 5 of the U.S. Code. independent agency : an agency that is not part of any of the
Equity
clear that human tribunals cannot cope with so wide a range or duties. (2) Taken in a less universal sense, Equity is used in contradistinction to strict law. This is Moral Equity, which should be the genius … upon the conscientious obligations of the suitors; and by adjudicating in personam, may compel specific performance (see that title) of a contract where law would only give damages for the breach of it, and stop a wrong
Charities, or Public Trusts
poor people; maintenance of sick and maimed soldiers and mariners, schools of learning, free schools, and scholars of universities; repairsof bridges, ports, havens, causeways, churches, sea-banks, and highways; education and preferment of orphans; the relief, stock, or … c. 27), the Trustees or Charitable Funds have become incorporated. See Tyssen's Charitable Bequests, 2nd Edn., and preceding title.
Oath
relaxed this rule, and the privilege of affirming (see AFFIRMATION) instead of taking an oath has now been universally granted by the (English) Oaths Act, 1888, by which-- Every person upon objection to being sworn, and stating, … 3, c. 104; 57Geo. 3, c. 19; 1 Vict. c. 91. As to 'Commissioners for Oaths,' see that title. As to the oath to be taken by members of the Parliament of the Irish Free State, see
particular successor
in his or her own right, and who is not liable for any debts of the succession compare universal successor … in the civil law of Louisiana : a successor (as a donee or buyer) who succeeds by particular title to the rights and obligations pertaining only to the property conveyed by the ancestor in title, who takes
Advocate
had, previously to their admission to that college, taken the degree of Doctor of Laws at an English university. The jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Courts in matters matrimonial and testamentary was in 1857 transferred to the Court … members of a college situate at Doctor's Commons, incorporated by charter, June 22, 8 Geo. 3, under the title of 'The College of Doctors of Law exercent in the Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Courts,' and had, previously to
Pandect', or Digesta
prevent the circulation of incorrect editions, three Ultramontane and three Citramon-tane scholars were chosen every year in the University of Bologna, and termed PECIARII; they were excused from all other munera publica, and held their sessions once … in Smith's Dict. of Antiq., voce 'Pandect'.' The Pandects are divided into fifty Books, each book containing several Titles, divided into Laws, and the Laws generally into several Parts or Para-graphs. In order to prevent the circulation
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