Search results for: “Criminal Law: cases and comments”
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Undue Influence
Definition of Undue Influence The equitable doctrine of undue influence is that where a person enters into an agreement or makes a disposition of property under such circumstances as to show or give rise to the presumption that he has not been allowed to exercise a free and deliberate judgment […]
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Traverse
Definition of Traverse To deny an allegation of fact. If a plaintiff replies by simply joining issue on the statement of defence he traverses, that is, denies, all the material allegations in the defence. See Order XIX, r. 18.Traverse of office or inquisition is a mode by which a subject can, […]
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Summary Proceedings
Definition of Summary Proceedings Short proceedings. Petitions, special cases, motions, and summonses, not being interlocutory proceedings in an action or suit, are instances of summary proceedings in civil cases.In criminal cases, summary proceedings are those which may be had and concluded […]
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Summons
Definition of Summons A document issued from the office of a Court of justice, calling upon the person to whom it is directed to attend before a Judge or officer of the Court. In the High Court of Justice a summons is a mode of making an application to a Judge or master in chambers…
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Summary Proceedings
Definition of Summary Proceedings Short proceedings. Petitions, special cases, motions, and summonses, not being interlocutory proceedings in an action or suit, are instances of summary proceedings in civil cases.In criminal cases, summary proceedings are those which may be had and concluded […]
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Short Cause
Definition of Short Cause In the Chancery Division, on the certificate of plaintiff’s counsel, an action which involves no question of difficulty and is not likely to take up much time in Court may be marked as short in the registrar’s book and disposed of expeditiously.In the King’s Bench […]
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Reservation
Definition of Reservation (1) A clause of a deed whereby the feoff or, donor, lessor, grantor, etc., doth reserve some new thing to himself out of that which he granted before. And this doth most commonly and properly succeed the tenendum (Sheppard’s Touchstone). The commonest instance of a […]
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Reputed Ownership
Definition of Reputed Ownership The doctrine that if the circumstances in which property is in a trader’s possession, order or disposition, are such as to lead to a fair and reasonable inference amongst persons likely to have dealings with him, that he is the owner, and if the real owner is a […]