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Exceptio nulla est versus actionem que exceptionem perimit [Lat.], There is no exception against an action which entirely destroys an exception....
Super statuto versus servantes et laboratores
Super statuto versus servantes et laboratores, a writ which lay against him who kept any servants who had left the service of another contrary to law...
Versus
Versus [Lat.], abbrev. v. (against)....
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iridium
A rare metallic element of atomic number 77 of the same group as platinum which it much resembles being silver white and indifferent to most corrosive agents but harder more brittle and with a higher melting temperature 2410deg C versus platinum 1772deg C With the exception of osmium it is the heaviest substance known its specific gravity being 224 Symbol Ir Atomic weight 19222...
main sequence
That region on a two dimensional graph of luminosity versus temperature for stars the Herzsprung Russel diagram which runs from high temperature and high luminosity to low temperature and low luminosity in which most of the stars plotted as points on the diagram are found A normal star such as the earths sun will spend most of its time over billions of years within this region of temperature and luminosity as it progressively converts more of its original hydrogen into heavier elements After the hydrogen is consumed a star may become a red giant or evolve into other types of star not within the main sequence region...
Caveat viator
Caveat viator (let the traveller beware), meaning that he must use reasonable care for his own safety; but a traveller or passer-by on premises on or over which he has a right to be or to pass is entitled to be protected from the negligence of those who are under some duty to passers-by or users of the premises. The degree of duty varies according to whether the victim of the accident has a contract involving care or even absolute assurance or warranty on the part of the defendant in regard to the soundness of the premises or otherwise, or whether the plaintiff was a visitor or licensee. See Indermaur v. Dames, (1866) LR 1 CP 274, Latham v. Johnson, 1913 (1) KB 398, and Norman v. Great Western Railway Company, 1915 (1) KB 584 (2) CP 311. The case of a trespasser is quite different, but even then the owner of the land or person in possession has no right to lay a trap for him or commit any other wilful injury, see Bird v. Holbrook, (1828) 4 Bing 628, with that exception, the owner of th...
Crypto-coup
Crypto-coup, the use of the word crypto, is rather puzzling. The word cryptic means mysterious. So the said phrase may be construed as mysterious coup, 'constitutional values versus globalisational crypto-coup: To be or not to be: that is the question.' [Globalisation-Vanishing National Economics and Diminishing Labour Survival in Justice Iyer, Off the Bench, Universal Law Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., p. 225]. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)...
Shebaitship
Shebaitship, property dedicated to an idol vests in it in an ideal sense only; ex necessitas, the possession and management has to be entrusted to some human agent. Such an agent of the idol is known as shebait in Northern India. The legal character of a shebait cannot be defined with precision and exactitude. Broadly described, he is the human ministrant and custodian of the idol, its earthly spokesman, its authorised representative entitled to deal with all its temporal affairs and to manage its property. As regards the administration of the debutter, his position is analogous to that of a trustee; yet, he is not precisely in the position of a trustee in the English sense, because under Hindu Law, property absolutely dedicated to an idol, vests in the idol, and not in the shebait. Although the debutter never vests in the shebait, yet, peculiarly enough, almost in every case, the shebait has a right to a part of the usufruct, the mode of enjoyment; and the amount of the usufruct depen...
Surcharge and falsify
Surcharge and falsify, a mode of taking accounts in Chancery, where the court treats the account as a stated account but gives liberty to challenge any particular items. 'I am not now upon a question arising on an open general account, but barely upon a liberty given to the plaintiff to surcharge and falsify. The onus probandi is always on the party having that liberty; for the court takes it as a stated account, and establishes it; but if any of the parties can shew an omission, for which credit ought to be [given], that is a surcharge; or if anything is inserted, that is a wrong charge, he is at liberty to show it, and that is falsification': Pit v. Cholmondeley, (1754) 2 Vs Sen 565, per Lord Hardwicke, L.C. See R.S.C. Ord. XXXIII., r. 5....
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