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Definition of Action
A civil proceeding commenced by writ or in such other manner as may be prescribed by rules of Court. It does not include a criminal proceeding by the Crown. (Judicature Act, 1925, s. 225.) Before the Judicature Acts, ” action ” generally meant a proceeding in one of the common law Courts, as opposed to a suit in equity. Actions were divided into real, personal, and mixed : real (or feudal) actions being those for the specific recovery of lands or other realty ; personal actions, those for the recovery of a debt, personal chattel, or damages ; and mixed actions, those for the recovery of real property, together with damages for a wrong connected with it. By the Real Property Limitation Act, 1833, s. 36, most of the real and mixed actions were abolished
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| Action | Action in the Family Law Portal of the European Encyclopedia of Law. |
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| Action | Action in the Civil Law Portal of the European Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Action | Action in the Constitutional Law Portal of the European Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Action | Action in the Taxation Law Portal of the European Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Action | Action in the Banking and Finance Law Portal of the European Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Action | Action in the Employment and Labour Portal of the European Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Action | Action in the Injury and Tort Law Portal of the European Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Action | Action in the Environmental Law Portal of the European Encyclopedia of Law. |
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Definition of Action is, temporally, from A Concise Law Dictionary (1927). This page needs to be proofread.
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