the reversal of a judgment
41List of Acts of Parliament of the English Parliament, 1700 to 1706 — This is a list of Acts of Parliament of the English Parliament during that body s existence prior to the Act of Union of 1707. For legislation passed after that date see List of Acts of Parliament of the United Kingdom Parliament.The numbers… …
42Civil liberties in the United Kingdom — have a long and formative history. This is usually considered to have begun with the English legal charter the Magna Carta of 1215, following its predecessor the English Charter of Liberties, a landmark document in English legal history. Judicial …
43Warren G. Harding: The Return to Normalcy — ▪ Primary Source The Republican Party in 1920 turned its back on a number of strong contenders and as his friend Harry Daugherty had predicted as early as February picked the relatively unknown Warren Gamaliel Harding of Ohio as its… …
44snatch defeat from the jaws of victory — verb To suddenly lose a contest through reversal of fortune, mistakes, or bad judgment. The meaning is analogous to the idiomatic phrase blow it ... since the fall of communism, the West has managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, and… …
45snatch victory from the jaws of defeat — verb To suddenly win a contest when it appears that loss is a foregone conclusion, to succeed in an endeavor through reversal of fortune, skill, effort, or good judgment …
46writ of restitution — A writ which is issued on the reversal of a judgment commanding the sheriff to restore to the defendant below the thing levied upon, if it has not been sold, and, if it has been sold, the proceeds. A writ which lies, after the reversal of a… …
47Court of Appeal — an English court. It comprises a Civil Division and a Criminal Division and hears most appeals in England. It is a central court, and cases come from all over the country. The Master of the Rolls heads up the Civil Division; the Lord Chief… …
48Maritime National Fish Ltd v Ocean Trawlers Ltd — Court Privy Council Citation(s) [1935] UKPC 1, [1935] AC 524; (1935) 51 Ll L Rep 299 …
49appeal — [14] The ultimate Latin source of appeal, the verb adpellere (formed from the prefix ad ‘to’ and pellere ‘drive’ – related to anvil, felt, and pulse), seems to have been used in nautical contexts in the sense ‘direct a ship towards a particular… …
50appeal — [14] The ultimate Latin source of appeal, the verb adpellere (formed from the prefix ad ‘to’ and pellere ‘drive’ – related to anvil, felt, and pulse), seems to have been used in nautical contexts in the sense ‘direct a ship towards a particular… …
