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This officer, so constituted by letters patent has preaudience over the. bar after the attorney and solicitor general and queen's advocate. 3 Steph. Comm. (7th Ed.) 274, note. … [Read more...] about PREMIER SERJEANT, THE QUEEN’S

Interest that a creditor may collect from a debtor that accumulated from the time the injury occurred until the time that the final court judgment was entered by the court. … [Read more...] about PREJUDGMENT INTEREST

Any assumption which forms the basis of a conclusion. … [Read more...] about PREMISE

To decide beforehand; to lean in favor of one side of a cause for some reason or other than its justice. 2. A judge ought to be without prejudice, and he cannot therefore sit in a case where he has any interest, or when a near relation is a part, or where he has been of counsel for one of the parties. Vide Judge. 3. In the civil law prejudice signifies a tort or injury; as the … [Read more...] about PREJUDICE

Bias of a judge in a lawsuit towards one of the parties. … [Read more...] about PREJUDICE OF JUDGE