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Common Counts
Definition of Common Counts Counts (q.v.) for money lent, for work done, etc Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Common Counts in the Dictionaries, Common Counts in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European Encyclopedia […]
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Common Employment
Definition of Common Employment The common law rule is that a master is not liable to his servant for injuries resulting from the negligence of a fellow-servant in the course of their common employment unless there be on the part of the master want of care in selecting his servants, or […]
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Common Informer
Definition of Common Informer A person who sues for a penalty under a statute which entitles any person to sue for it Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Common Informer in the Dictionaries, Common Informer in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, […]
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Common Law
Definition of Common Law That part of the law of England formulated, developed and administered by the old Common Law Courts, based on the common custom of the country, and originally unwritten. It is opposed to equity, the body of rules administered by the Court of Chancery ; to statute law, […]
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Common Lodging-house
Definition of Common Lodging-house A house in which persons are lodged for hire, for less than a week at a time, and sleeping or eating in a common room Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Common Lodging-house in the Dictionaries, Common Lodging-house […]
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Common Pleas
Definition of Common Pleas Common law actions between subject and subject. See Court of Common Pleas Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Common Pleas in the Dictionaries, Common Pleas in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the […]
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Common Recovery
Definition of Common Recovery See Becovery, Common Serjeant. A judicial officer of the City of London, next below the Recorder, and a Judge of the Central Criminal Court Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Common Recovery in the Dictionaries, Common […]
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Common Vouchee
Definition of Common Vouchee The crier of the Court vouched to warranty in the common recovery. See Eecovery Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Common Vouchee in the Dictionaries, Common Vouchee in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse […]
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Common En Tes
Definition of Common En Tes Persons dying together on the same occasion, where it cannot be ascertained which died first. By section 184 of the Law of Property Act, 1925, death is presumed to have tak’en place in order of seniority Browse You might be interested in these references tools: […]
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Combination, Unlawful
Definition of Combination, Unlawful Combinations in restraint of trade are unlawful at common law. But combinations of workmen for the purpose of raising wages, etc., i. e., trade unions, have been legalised by statute. See the Trade Union Act, 1871 ; Trade Disputes Act, 1906 Browse You might […]