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Equality before law | Substantial equality of treatment; identical treatment under equal circumstances. ‘All citizens are... | 1084 |
Endorsement | The act of the owner or payee signing his/her name to the back of a check, bill of exchange or other... | 1004 |
Examination-in-chief | The questioning of a witness by the party who called him to give evidence. After the witness has been... | 701 |
Jurisprudence | The science or philosophy of law. “Recorded thinking about the source, nature, end and efficiency of... | 1157 |
Encumbrance | "encumbrance", in relation to any estate, tenure, holding, tenancy of land, means any mortgage, charge,... | 403 |
Delivery (of goods sold) | "Delivery" means voluntary transfer of possession from one person to another. [See section 2(2), the... | 388 |
Dishonour by non-acceptance | A bill of exchange is said to be dishonoured by non-acceptance when the drawee, or one of several drawees... | 384 |
Desert (to) | to "desert", together with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means to desert the other... | 413 |
Closed | 'Closed' means not open for service to any customer or to any business connected with any establishment.... | 396 |
Church of Rome | "Church of Rome" and "Roman Catholic" mean and apply to the Church which regards the Pope of Rome as... | 385 |