Walkers

Walkers, foresters who have the care of a certain space of ground....

Night walkers, vagrants, pilferers, disturbers of the peace. They may be arrested by the police, and committed to custody till the morning, 2 Hale, P.C. 90. Also a name for a common prostitute: see s. 54 (11) of the (English) Metropolitan Police Act, 1839 (2 & 3 Vict. c. 47); Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Police (Metropolis).'...

Money

Money, means current coin; metal stamped in pieces as a medium of exchange and measure of value. Hence, anything serving the same purpose as coin, late ME. In mod. use applied indifferently to coin and to such promissory documents representing coin as are currently accepted as a medium of exchange, Shorter Oxford English Dictionary; see also C.I.T. v. Kasturi & Sons Ltd., (1999) 3 SCC 346.Money, the Black's Law Dictionary 5th Edn., defines the word 'money' thus: 'In usual and ordinary acceptation. It means coins and paper currency used as circulating medium of exchange, and does not embrace notes, bonds, evidences of debt, or other personal or real estate, Lane v. Railey, 280 Ky 319, 133 SW 2d 74, 79, 81. See also Currency; Current money; Flat money; Legal tender; Near money; Scrip; Wampum. A medium of exchange authorized or adopted by a domestic or foreign Government as a part of its currency, VCC $1-2-1(24).' Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, 5th Edn., defines it as follows: 'Money as cu...

Money Bill

Money, means current coin; metal stamped in pieces as a medium of exchange and measure of value. Hence, anything serving the same purpose as coin, late ME. In mod. use applied indifferently to coin and to such promissory documents representing coin as are currently accepted as a medium of exchange, Shorter Oxford English Dictionary; see also C.I.T. v. Kasturi & Sons Ltd., (1999) 3 SCC 346.Money, the Black's Law Dictionary 5th Edn., defines the word 'money' thus: 'In usual and ordinary acceptation. It means coins and paper currency used as circulating medium of exchange, and does not embrace notes, bonds, evidences of debt, or other personal or real estate, Lane v. Railey, 280 Ky 319, 133 SW 2d 74, 79, 81. See also Currency; Current money; Flat money; Legal tender; Near money; Scrip; Wampum. A medium of exchange authorized or adopted by a domestic or foreign Government as a part of its currency, VCC $1-2-1(24).' Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, 5th Edn., defines it as follows: 'Money as cu...

Occasioned by or in consequence of

Occasioned by or in consequence of, imply directly occasioned by or the direct consequence of, Walker v. London and Provincial Insurance Co., (1888) 22 LR Ir 572; Burrow's Words & Phrases....

Upto

Upto, a particular date, means that the particular date is the one up to which the state of account has been ascertained, income-tax assessed up to a particular date is not confined to the tax actually assessed before that date, but includes all assessed tax up to that date, whether the assessment was made before or after the date, Gowers v. Walker, (1930) 1 Ch 262.Upto, may include the last day or may not, and if it is in consonance with justice to interpret it in one of the ways permissible, there can be no complaint on the other side, Musharraf Hussain v. Agha Munawar Ali Khan, 186 IC 881: AIR 1940 Lah 7: 186 IC 881.Upto, Wednesday in a contract means that the offer remains open until midnight of Wednesday, Metropolitan Engineering Works v. Debramer, 45 Cal 481....

Trespasser

Trespasser, referred. [Transfer of Property Act, 1882 (15 of 1882), s. 45]One who commits a trespass. In general a person owes no duty to a trespasser, the rule being that a man trespasses at his own risk, Grand Trunk Railway of Canada v. Barnett, 1911 AC 370; and see Latham v. R. Johnson & Nephew, (1913) 1 KB 398; but an owner of a field upon which to his knowledge the public habitually trespassed was under the circumstances held liable to a trespasser for injuries done to him by a vicious horse which the owner of the field kept there, Lowery v. Walker, 1911 AC 10. A man may be a trespasser even on a highway if he is using it for an improper purpose; see Harrison v. Duke of Rutland, (1893) 1 QB 143; and see SPRING GUNS.Per K. Ramaswamy, J.: A rank trespasser is one who does not stand in any contractual relationship with the owner of the premises. A trespasser is also one who lawfully enters into but unlawfully remains in possession of the property without the consent or acquiescence o...

Thistle

Thistle, it was the custom within the manor of Halton, in Chester, that if, in driving beasts over a common, the driver permitted them to graze or take but a thistle, he should pay a halfpenny a-piece, called a 'thistle-take,' to the lord of the fee. And at Fiskerton, in Notinghamshire, by ancient custom, if a native or a cottager killed a swine above a year old, he paid to the lord a penny, which purchase of leave to kill a hog was also called thistle-take.It has been held that an occupier of land has no duty towards his neighbour to prevent thistles from seeding, and is not liable to his neighbour for damage by the seeds being blown on to his neighbour's land, Giles v. Walker, (1890) 24 QBD 656...

Prejudice, without

Prejudice, without, is a term given to overtures and communications between parties in the course of negotiate on, or between litigants before action or after action, but before trial or verdict. The words import an understanding that if the negotiation fails, nothing that has passed shall be taken advantage of thereafter; so, if a defendant offer, 'without prejudice,' to pay half the claim, the plaintiff must not rely on the offer as an admission of his having a right to some payment.The rule is that nothing written or said 'without prejudice' can be considered at the trial without the consent of both parties--not even by a judge in determining whether or not there is good cause for depriving a successful litigant of costs, Walker v. Wilsher, (1889) 23 QBD 335; Hulton v. Chadwick, 35 TLR 620. There must, however, be an existing dispute for the rule to apply [Re Daintrey, (1893) 2 QB 116]. The word is also frequently used without the foregoing implications in statutes and inter partes ...

Dilapidation

Dilapidation, decay; a kind of ecclesiastical waste, either voluntary, by pulling down, or permissive, by suffering the chancel, parsonage house, and other buildings thereunto belonging to decay. See the (English) Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Act, 1871 and 1872 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 43, and 35 & 36 Vict. c. 96), Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Church and Clergy.'The term is also used to signify that disrepair for which a tenant is usually liable to a landlord during and at the end of a tenancy under an express agreement to keep and yield up the demised premises in good repair; see Lister v. Lane, (1893) 2 QB 212; Torrents v. Walker, (1906) 2 Ch 166; Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe v. McOscar, (1924) 1 KB 716 (CA), also FORFEITURE, and Landlord and Tenant Housing Act....

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