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May 01 1878 (PC)

Savitribai Widow of Dhakji Balcrustna Vs. Luximibai Widow of Ganoba An ...

Court : Mumbai

Reported in : (1878)ILR2Bom573

..... that maintenance only is reserved for the widow and ..... . thus, the support of a married daughter residing in her father's house (for so the term is explained by vijnyanesvara) is approved by yajnyavalkya (lxxvii), although she have no title to the estate; and there is no difference, so ..... her husband, it is not an unfair inference to make that he would have deemed it highly unreasonable to countenance claims for maintenance, made against a relative separated from the family or without family property, by persons other than his parents (when old or in distress), his wife, or his infant son, or possibly, by analogy to the latter, unmarried daughters.40 ..... for not doing so was that he was unwilling to put the parties to the expense of two new suits, or one new suit and an ..... for texts show that the family perishes: therefore, women shall not, in such cases, apply to the king; but he being privately informed, must compel their relations to supply them with food and the like; and the rule must be settled as in the supplementary ..... . even what he does for the sake of his future spiritual body, to the injury of those ..... she admitted, however, that no personal violence was used to her, and eventually her complaint did not go beyond an assertion that the comfort of herself and her ..... . justice norman, when acting as chief justice of bengal, held that a widow could not support a suit for a money allowance as maintenance against her father-in-law, who had separated in estate, though not in .....

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Dec 03 1900 (FN)

Stearns Vs. Minnesota

Court : US Supreme Court

..... was reserved to repeal, alter or amend, and it was exercised by declaring that the right of occupation should cease, but that the duty to pay the rent should continue in the same amount and in the same manner stated in the contract, and that nothing in the amendatory act should be construed as relieving the lessee from the duty to pay the whole of the stipulated rent, a condition strictly analogous to that which arises from the amending act relied ..... these lands were not donated by congress to the state to be used by it for its own benefit and in its own way, but were conveyed to the state in trust with the understanding that, as trustee, it should use them in the best possible manner for accomplishing the purposes of the trust. ..... that said northern pacific railroad company shall have the right and authority to acquire and hold lands for right of way, depot grounds, and for all necessary purposes of said company in all respects as provided by the general laws of this state, as set forth in sections numbered consecutively thirteen to twenty-seven, inclusive, of chapter thirty-four, title one, of general statutes now in force. ..... by contract limit the lawful rights of its successors, by taking particular property out of the legislative authority to tax, on the assumption that such persons or property are thereafter to be governed by a contract which exempts from all future exercise of the legislative power of taxation. ..... 600 ; wisconsin central r.r. co. v ..... 210; wisconsin central r.r. co. .....

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Jun 14 1915 (FN)

Woodward Vs. De Graffenried

Court : US Supreme Court

..... said nation or tribe is also completed, the commission heretofore appointed under acts of congress, and known as the 'dawes commission,' shall proceed to allot the exclusive use and occupancy of the surface of all the lands of said nation or tribe susceptible of allotment among the citizens thereof, as shown by said roll, giving to each, so far as possible, his fair and equal share thereof, considering the nature and fertility ..... members, and those holding leases from them, are deriving more than their share of the profit, so it has provided that all valuable mineral deposits be reserved to the tribes and be set apart as incapable of allotment, and that such mineral deposits be in the future leased under rules and regulations prescribed by the secretary of the interior. . . . ..... besides; (b) 29, which ratified an agreement made by the dawes commission with commissions representing the choctaw and chickasaw tribes on april 23, 1897 (the "atoka agreement"), as amended, the same to be of full force and effect if ratified before december 1, 1898, by a majority of the votes cast by the members of the tribes at an election held for that purpose; "and if said agreement as amended be so ratified, the provisions of this act shall page 238 u. s. ..... pointed out the successive acts of legislation; culminating in 26 and 28 of the curtis act itself, by which congress had displaced the tribal laws of descent and distribution, and substituted the arkansas law as expressed in chapter 49 of mansfield's .....

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Apr 08 1929 (FN)

Gilchrist Vs. Interborough Rapid Transit Co.

Court : US Supreme Court

..... 3 -- 122 printed pages -- with great detail provided for immediate (and possible future) extensions of and additions to the subway system then existing, also their equipment and operation ..... , in connection with (2) elevated lines belonging to and leased from another corporation, and (3) extensions of such elevated lines, sought to increase the rate of fare, which had been fixed at five cents for all the lines by the leases and by the agreement under which the extensions had been constructed, and to that end proposed a seven-cent fare and applied to the transit commission of new york to ..... of the amended act declares: "4 ..... connection with the operation of the railroad and the existing railroads [old subways], hereinafter referred to as the 'revenue,' shall be combined during the term of this contract, and the city shall receive for the use of the railroad at the intervals provided a specified part or proportion of the income, earnings or profits of the railroad and the existing railroads. . . . ..... elevated roads extended as above shown, and reserved as possible compensation a named percentum of any increased receipts ..... shall have and exercise all the powers heretofore conferred upon the board of rapid transit railroad commissions under chapter 4 of the laws of 1891 entitled 'an act to provide for rapid transit railways in cities of over one million inhabitants,' and the acts amendatory thereto. ..... (4) from grand central station northward along lexington avenue, under the harlem and beyond, .....

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Apr 18 1951 (HC)

Bishnu Charan Mukherjee and anr. Vs. State of Orissa

Court : Orissa

Reported in : AIR1952Ori11

..... in order to substantiate the argument that the disqualification in question is entirely arbitrary, learned counsel for the applicants, has attempted an analysis of the possible reason for all the other disqualifications in section 16 of the act with a view to persuade us that the particular disqualification which is under consideration cannot be related to ..... of councillors in the various municipalities ox orissa including cuttack and kendrapara and also specifying the number of seats reserved for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes. ..... we have attempted to ascertain what was the reason behind that amendment in 1930 by the madras legislature, but we have been unable to obtain any clear elucidation ..... unified the law on the subject and included in the orissa municipal act, 1950 (hereinafter referred to as the act) many of the provisions of the madras act and the b & o act which they considered to be useful and desirable. ..... force in any district, or part of a district on such date as the local government may by notification direct : provided that chapter viii shall not apply to any area unless it has been specially extended thereto under section 71, and provided that it shall be lawful, any time after the passing of this act, to hold any election in manner therein provided, but such election shall not take effect till the commencement of this act. ..... such application, for the limited purpose of a future and anticipatory election, does not amount to bringing into force the various relevant .....

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May 07 1951 (FN)

United States Vs. ChamplIn Refining Co.

Court : US Supreme Court

..... claims (1) that factual changes remove this case from the realm of collateral estoppel; (2) that the court specifically reserved the statutory issue presented by this case, namely whether the icc may convert a private carrier into a common carrier for hire, and (3) that the lower court was correct in holding that the act violates the fifth amendment if construed to authorize the icc's order. ..... " [ footnote 2/5 ] while the meaning of this "something more" is not made clear, the court, in overturning the commission order, does suggest in passing that it might possibly sustain an order requiring champlin to comply with 6 upon commission findings that the company exploited "a competitive advantage simply by refusing to deal with independent producers having no comparably cheap method of reaching consuming markets," or that ..... (a) the term 'common carrier' as used in this chapter shall include all pipeline companies. . . ..... [ footnote 2/16 ] consequently, today's decision allowing champlin to refrain from filing tariffs under 6 necessarily overrules either the pipe line cases or champlin i, or both ..... is little doubt, from the legislative history, that the act was passed to eliminate the competitive advantage which existing or future integrated companies might possess from exclusive ownership of a pipeline. ..... is one thing, but to require it to file tariffs, and thereby obligate itself to transport oil products of others in common carrier service, to the exclusion of its own, is something entirely .....

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Jun 10 1952 (HC)

Ajaib Singh Lehna Singh Vs. the State of Punjab and anr.

Court : Punjab and Haryana

Reported in : AIR1952P& H309

..... into custody' any person found therein who, in his opinion, is an 'abducted person', and deliver or cause such person to be delivered to the custody of the officer in charge of the nearest camp with the least possible delay.section 6 of the act makes provision for the determination of the questions whether a person detained in a camp is or is not an 'abducted person' or whether such person should be restored to his or her relatives or handed over to any other person or 'conveyed ..... 'magna carta was re-affirmed from time to time by successive english monarchs, and in 1354 edward, iii recognised the liberties and customs which the people had enjoyed in the past and declared in chapter 3 of 28 edward iii that'no man of what estate or condition that he be, shall be put out of land, or tenement, nor taken, nor imprisoned, nor disinherited, nor put to death, without being brought in answer by due process of ..... 589 the supreme court denning 'liberty' said:-'the liberty mentioned in the fourteenth amendment means not only the right of a citizen to be free from the mere physical restraint of his person as by incarceration, but the term is deemed to embrace the right of the citizen to be free in the 'engagement' of all his faculties; to be free to use them fn all lawful ways; to live and work where he will; to earn his livelihood by any lawful calling; to ..... this tribunal in a case dealt by it is final but power has been reserved to the central government to review or revise any such decision. .....

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Nov 18 1958 (SC)

Sri Ram Ram NaraIn Medhi Vs. the State of Bombay

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1959SC459; (1959)61BOMLR811; [1959]Supp1SCR489

..... 'retrenchment' as defined in section 2(oo) and the word 'retrenchment' in section 25f of the industrial disputes act, 1947, as amended by act xliii of 1953 were held to have no wider meaning than the ordinary accepted connotation of those words and were held to mean the discharge of surplus labour or staff by the employer for any reason whatsoever, otherwise than as a punishments inflicted by way of disciplinary action, and did not include ..... state, the provisions of this article shall not apply thereto unless such law, having been reserved for the consideration of the president, has received his assent................ ..... position, however, could not obtain because whatever amendments were made by the impugned act in the 1948 act were future laws within the meaning of article 13(2) of ..... this power is vested not in minor officials but in top-ranking authorities like the commissioner of income-tax and the central board of revenue who act on the information supplied to them by the income-tax officers concerned. ..... it is contended that section 7 does not fix any criteria for the guidance of the state government and that the power which is given to the state government to vary the ceiling area and economic holding is unguided and unfettered and that it is possible to exercise it at the sweet will and discretion of the state government even in ..... chapter vi deals with the grant, use and relinquishment of unalienated lands and section 65 thereof prescribes the uses to which an occupant of land for .....

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Jan 23 1959 (HC)

Anil Kumar Bhattacharjee and ors. Vs. Deputy Commissioner and Collecto ...

Court : Guwahati

..... provided under section 31 of the act against orders passed under sections 12 and 13, which are otherwise final and not open to question in any court (vide; section 32), we have then a separate chapter in the act (chapter iii) for disposal and settlement of the excess land acquired under section 8 of the: act. ..... sc 397 at pp 408-409) as follows : 'it may also be remembered that this power is vested not in minor officials but in top-ranking authorities like the commissioner of income-tax and the central board of revenue who act on the information supplied to them by the income-tax officers concerned. ..... (broadly defined as to cover all estates in /the country, and to cover all possible kinds of rights in estates, as shown by sub-clause (b) of clause (2) of ..... it has been also suggested that the legislation impugned puts a bar on future acquisition of property (vide section 20 of the act) and makes certain offences penal under the act and is, therefore, hit by articles 19(1)(f) and 20 of the constitution. ..... the act also purported to create a pool of the surplus area in excess of the reserved area for resettlement of tenants, who were liable to pay rent to the landlord when inducted, and the act made provision for conferring on certain classes of tenants the right to purchase lands held by ..... order to save legislation effecting agrarian reforms, we have every reason to hold that those expressions have been used in their widest amplitude, consistent with the purpose behind those amendments. .....

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Feb 12 1960 (HC)

Bhagwandas Goenka Vs. Union of India (Uoi)

Court : Chennai

Reported in : AIR1961Mad47; 1961CriLJ273; (1960)IIMLJ458

..... used or, as the case may be, the conditions cannot be complied with, the said person shall without delay sell the foreign exchange to an authorised dealer".section 9 of the act, which is titled 'acquisition by central government of foreign exchange, runs as follows:--''the central government may, by notification in the official gazette, order every person in, or resident in, the states (a) who owns or holds such foreign exchange as may be specified in the notification, to offer it, or cause it to be offered for sale to the reserve ..... an accused from his possession, but also to such compelled production of oral or documentary evidence from any other who may become incriminated thereby as an accused in future proceedings.the supreme court held that the pharse "to be a witness" is not merely in respect of testimonial compulsion in the court room but may well extend ..... is elaborately dealt with in the monumental work on evidence by wigmore, third edition, volume viii, chapter lxxx, pages 276-304 and by professor glanville williams in his "the proof of guilt" (the hamlyn lectures), page 36 and ..... amendment safeguarded the privacy of the home and made it unconstitutional for the issue of searches and seizures unless they were on reasonable grounds, and the fifth amendment dealt with what is known as testimonial compulsion, our constitution-makers in article 20(3) did not deal with the fourth amendment ..... in obviously wrong ways and created the possibility of rendering unfounded sentences. .....

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