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Perpetuating testimony
may be material for establishing such right or claim. This jurisdiction emanates from the anxiety of equity to ward off litigation, where it may be oppressively exercised, by preserving the evidence in maintenance of an unpossessed legal
Proposal
decretal order of the Court. It is for maintenance of an infant, appointment of a guardian, placing a ward of Court at the university, or in the army, or apprentice to a trade; for the appointment of
Priority
427. The notice does not, under the rule in Dearle v. Hall, affect the validity of the assignment, Ward v. Duncombe, 1893 AC 369; it merely establishes priority. Under the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s.
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H'rede rapto
H'rede rapto, a writ for the ravishment of the lord's ward, Reg. Brev. 163
Orphan
mother. The Lord Chancellor is the general guardian of all orphans and minors throughout the realm. See GUARDIANSHIP; WARD OF COURT. By the (English) Poor Law Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 17), local county
Lawful guardian
than the expression 'legal guardian'. That word would mean that wherever the relationship of a guardian and a ward is established by means which are lawful and legitimate that relationship is intended to be included, State v.
Landlord
not on his own account but on account of any other person, such as his principal or his ward, he is landlord, Swadesh Ranjan Sinha v. Haradeb Banerjee, AIR 1992 SC 1590 (1591). [West Bengal Premises Tenancy
Retrospective law
Retrospective law, retrospective means looking backward; contemplating what is past; having reference to a statute or things existing before the Act in question. Retrospective law, according to the same dictionary, means a law which looks back-ward...
High Steward, Court of the Lord
High Steward, Court of the Lord, a tribunal instituted for the trial of peers or peeresses indicted for treason or felony, or for misprision of either, but not for any other offence. The office of Lord...
Recto de custodia terr' et h'redis
Recto de custodia terr' et h'redis, a writ of right of ward of the land and heir. Abolished.
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