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Witness
actually required. If a witness who has been ordered out of Court remains, it is a contempt, if wilful and may be treated as such; but his evidence is not rejected. Each witness remains in Court after
Will, Estate at
then entitled to them. He is not bound to maintain or repair the premises, but is liable for wilful waste. We have seen that either party may determine this estate. The lessor can do so by an
Waste
waste at Common Law, whereby a tenant for life, without impeachment of waste, will be restrained from committing wilful, destructive, malicious, or extravagant waste, such as pulling down houses, cutting timber of too young a growth, or
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Tax evasion
Tax evasion, means wilful attempt to defeat or circumvent the tax law in order to illegally reduce one's tax liability, Black's Law
Tail after possibility of issue extinct, Tenant in
it, but also convert to his own use the property wasted. Equity, however, will restrain him from committing wilful waste. (2) The estate is liable to forfeiture. (3) It will merge in a fee-simple of fee-tail, immediately
Suppression of facts
failure to pay duty or take out a licence is not necessarily due to fraud or collusion or wilful misstatement or suppression of facts or contravention of any provision of the Act. Suppression of facts is not
Risk Note
liability, and a lower rate with exemption from liability-a company may exempt themselves from all liability except for wilful is conduct, Sutcliffe v. G.W.Ry., (1910) 1 KB 478.
Reckless
Reckless, as applied to negligence is the legal equivalent of wilful or wanton Black's Law Dictionary (Fourth Edn.) at p. 1773. Reckless, Characterized by creation of a substantial and
Workmen's Compensation Act
least three days from earning full wages in his employment [s. 1 (1) (a), ibid.], and serious and wilful misconduct may disqualify unless the injury results in death or serious and permanent disablement [s. 1 (1) (b),
Obstruction of justice
obstructing justice; obstructing public justice, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1105. Means the goal, to proscribe every wilful act of corruption, intimidation or force which tends in any way to distort or impede the administration of
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