settled+principle
41Commonwealth v. Alger — Property law Part of …
42dictate — Synonyms and related words: a priori truth, act, adage, ana, analects, aphorism, apothegm, appoint, authorize, axiom, behest, bestride, bid, bidding, bill, brocard, brook no denial, bylaw, byword, call for, call on, call the signals, call upon,… …
43truism — Synonyms and related words: a priori truth, abstraction, aphorism, apothegm, axiom, banality, brocard, bromide, cliche, commonplace, dictate, dictum, formula, general idea, generalization, generalized proposition, glittering generality, gnome,… …
44truth — Synonyms and related words: a priori truth, absolute certainty, absolute credibility, absoluteness, accomplished fact, accuracy, actuality, actually, assurance, assuredness, authenticity, axiom, brocard, candor, certain knowledge, certainness,… …
45Vaughan v. Menlove — (1837) 3 Bing. N.C. 467, 132 E.R. 490 (C.P.) is a famous English tort law case that first introduced the concept of the reasonable person in law. [Talfourd and Whatley represented the plaintiff, while Richards represented the defendant. Judges on …
46Punitive damages — (termed exemplary damages in the United Kingdom) are damages not awarded in order to compensate the plaintiff, but in order to reform or deter the defendant and similar persons from pursuing a course of action such as that which damaged the… …
47axiom — n. 1. Truism, self evident proposition, intuitive truth, necessary truth. 2. Postulate, settled principle (not of necessity true), proposition commonly received, assumed truth …
48reverse direction rule — The well settled principle that if a difficulty arises in running the line of a survey of lands in one direction, and all the known calls are met by running them in the reverse direction, the latter is a proper procedure. 12 Am J2d Bound § 60 …
49Europe, history of — Introduction history of European peoples and cultures from prehistoric times to the present. Europe is a more ambiguous term than most geographic expressions. Its etymology is doubtful, as is the physical extent of the area it designates.… …
50Germany — /jerr meuh nee/, n. a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany; East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. 84,068,216; 137,852 sq.… …
