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Double voucher






Double voucher

A common recovery is sometimes suffered with double voucher, which occurs when the person first vouched to warranty, comes in and vouches over a third person.

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Common
marriage law. a marriage in which no formal ceremony took place and no license exists.

Recovery
A recovery, in its most extensive sense, is the restoration of a former right, by the solemn judgment of a Court of justice.

Double
Twofold.

Voucher
1) Aaccounts. An account book in which are entered the acquittances, or warrants for the accountant's discharge. It also signifies any acquittance or receipt, which is evidence of payment, or of the debtor's being discharged. 2) Common recoveries. The voucher in common recoveries, is the person on whom the tenant to the praecipe calls to defend the title to the land, because he is supposed to have warranted the title to him at the time of the original purchase.

When
1) At which time, in wills, standing by itself unqualified and unexplained, this is a word of condition denoting the time at which the gift is to continence. 2) The context of a will may show that the word when is to be applied to the possession only, not to the vesting of a legacy; but to justify this construction, there must be circumstances, or other expressions in the will, showing such to have been the testator's intent.

Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.

Warranty
A guarantee given on the performance of a product or the doing of a certain thing. For example, many consumer products come with warranties under which the manufacturer will repair or replace any product that fails during the warranty period; the commitment to repair or replace being the "warranty".

Comes
1) Offices. A Count. An officer during the middle ages, who possessed civil and military authority. 2) Pleading. The word comes, venit, expresses the appearance of the defendant , in court.



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Double
Twofold.

Double actionability
The former English common law rule of conflict of laws in tort, whereby a suit could only be maintained in England for an alleged wrong committed abroad (1) if the wrong would have been actionable had it been committed in England and (2) if it was also civilly actionable in the place where it was committed.

Double cell
In the US penitentiary slang, housing two prisoners in a cell designed for one.

Double costs
Practice. According to the English law, when double costs are given by the statute, the term is not to be understood, according to its literal import, twice the amount of single costs, but in such case the costs are thus calculated. 1) The common costs; and, 2) Half of the common costs.

Double insurance
Contracts. Where the insured makes, two insurances on the same risk, and the same interest.

Double jeopardy
Putting a person on trial more than once for the same crime. It is forbidden by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Double plea
The alleging, for one single purpose, two or more distinct grounds of defence, when one of them would be as effectual in law, as both or all.

Double renvoi
The application by the forum court to the conflict rules, including the renvoi rules, of a foreign state. Double renvoi, also known as the "foreign court theory", appears to be limited to England; see also renvoi.

Double waste
When a tenant, bound to repair, suffers a house to be wasted, and then unlawfully fells timber to repair it, he is said to commit double waste.



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Double costs
Practice. According to the English law, when double costs are given by the statute, the term is not to be understood, according to its literal import, twice the amount of single costs, but in such case the costs are thus calculated. 1) The common costs; and, 2) Half of the common costs.

Double insurance
Contracts. Where the insured makes, two insurances on the same risk, and the same interest.

Double jeopardy
Putting a person on trial more than once for the same crime. It is forbidden by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Double plea
The alleging, for one single purpose, two or more distinct grounds of defence, when one of them would be as effectual in law, as both or all.

Double renvoi
The application by the forum court to the conflict rules, including the renvoi rules, of a foreign state. Double renvoi, also known as the "foreign court theory", appears to be limited to England; see also renvoi.

Double voucher

Double waste
When a tenant, bound to repair, suffers a house to be wasted, and then unlawfully fells timber to repair it, he is said to commit double waste.

Dove
The name of a well known bird.

Dowager
A widow endowed; one who has a jointure.

Dower
A wife's common law right to inherit from her husband.

Dower unde nihil habet
This is a writ of right in its nature. It lies only against the tenant of the freehold.

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