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Feb 21 1975 (SC)

Sukhdev Singh, Oil and Natural Gas Commission, Life Insurance Corporat ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1975SC1331; [1975(30)FLR283]; 1975LabIC881; (1975)ILLJ399SC; (1975)1SCC421; [1975]3SCR619

..... indicate at each stage that the creation, composition of membership, the functions and powers, the financial powers, the audit of accounts, the returns, the capital, the borrowing powers, the dissolution of the commission and acquisition of and for the purpose of the company and the powers of entry are all authority and agency of the central government.45. ..... terms and conditions of service of such employees or agents; the terms and conditions of service of persons who have become employees of the corporation under section 11 of the act; the number, term of office and conditions of service of members of boards constituted under section 22 of the act; the manner in which the fund of the corporation shall be maintained; the form and manner in which policies may be issued and contracts binding on the corporation may ..... , as i stated earlier, unnecessary and may be even misleading to refer to the english practice in interpreting the word 'regulation'.163. ..... statutes it is unnecessary and might sometimes be misleading to refer to the provisions of english law in connection with subordinate legislation. ..... the case of private employment english law has devised no suitable ..... the recent english cases, appear, at long last, to move towards the abandonment of the totally antiquated notions of 'proper' functions ..... it has taken english and american courts many years to concede that the exercise of an industrial or commercial activity on behalf of the state does not deprive such activity of its .....

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Aug 22 2006 (SC)

Kuldip Nayar Vs. Union of India (Uoi) and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR2006SC3127; JT2006(8)SC1; 2006(8)SCALE257; (2006)7SCC1

..... such states as have legislative councils or by change in the system of proportional representation, that would also have the effect of changing the representation of the states.article 83(1) provides as under:the council of states shall not be subject to dissolution, but as nearly as possible one-third of the members thereof shall retire as soon as may be on the expiration of every second year in accordance with the provisions made in that behalf by parliament by law.if the duration of ..... constituency in india'; that is to say, he is no longer required to be an elector for a parliamentary constituency in the 'state or territory' to which the seat for which he is a candidate pertains.9.1 the word 'elector' has been defined in section 2(e) of the rp act, 1951 which reads as under:elector' in relation to a constituency means a person whose name is entered in the electoral roll of that constituency for the time being in force and who is not subject to any of the disqualifications ..... constitution and the representation of people act together as constituting a scheme, it was observed as under:(e) neither, under the constitution nor under the representation of the people act, any period of limitation has been prescribed for holding election for constituting legislative assembly after premature dissolution of the existing one ..... . he also referred to the collins paperback english dictionary to point out meanings of the expressions 'country' [a territory distinguished by its people, .....

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Sep 08 1885 (PC)

V.H. Lopez Vs. E.J. Lopez

Court : Kolkata

Reported in : (1885)ILR12Cal706

..... is, whether a marriage between a man and his deceased wife's sister, celebrated in calcutta in the year 1877, is liable to be declared null and void, under section 19 of the indian divorce act, on the ground that the parties are within the prohibited degrees, both parties being domiciled in british india and resident in calcutta, and both being roman catholics. ..... of prohibited degrees, as has been shown, was not applicable to christians generally when the divorce act was passed; the application of the english rules to all christians would be a most momentous change in the marriage law of the large majority of christians in india, such as we ought not to hold to have been made, unless the ..... of england, 'so far as the circumstances and occasions of the said provinces and people shall admit or require'; and that the only further question to be considered was, whether the english law of prohibited degrees was such as those circumstanced admitted of required--a question which might have been one of much difficulty. ..... act and the acts of 1864 and 1865 are in pari materia in the sense that they both deal with marriage; but they deal with it from different points of view, and for different purposes, the earlier acts treating primarily of the form of marriage, the divorce act of its dissolution ..... ' the act then proceeds to deal with a number of subjects, of which the most important are dissolution of marriage, nullity of marriage, judicial separation, protection orders, restitution of conjugal .....

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Aug 03 2012 (HC)

Bader Sayeed Vs. the Southern India Education Trust and Others

Court : Chennai

..... said case, the supreme court entertained a petition filed by a teacher under article 32 of the constitution, against a private school which was not receiving any aid, to enforce the provisions of the act and the rules, and granted her the benefit of the age of retirement as 60 years, while, under the rules of the school she was to retire at the age of 58 years ..... of the societies registration act, 1860 had to be complied with in the matter of filing list of office-bearers every year with the registrar and the carrying out of the amendments in accordance with the procedure laid down in the act of 1860 and the dissolution being in terms of sections 13 and 14 of the societies registration act, 1860 and making all the provisions of the societies registration act applicable to the society ..... . any attempt to equate the scope of the power of the high court under article 226 of the constitution with that of the english courts to issue prerogative writs is to introduce the unnecessary procedural restrictions grown over the years in a comparatively small country like england with a unitary from of government into a ..... and ambit of public law remedy in the light of certain english decisions, it is worthwhile to remember the words of ..... . 226 of the constitution with that of the english courts to issue prerogative writs is to introduce the unnecessary procedural restrictions grown over the years in a comparatively small country like england with a unitary form of government to a vast .....

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Sep 25 2014 (SC)

Madras Bar Association Vs. Union of India and anr.

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... enactment under reference creating the ntt as an independent appellate forum to decide appeals on substantial questions of law, from orders passed by the appellate tribunals constituted under the income tax act, the customs act, and the excise act deserves to be set aside; it was the contention of the learned counsel for the respondents, that the submissions advanced at the hands of the petitioners, were premised on an ..... tribunal, could be availed of (a) against a decision or order passed by the collector of central excise as an adjudicating authority, (b) against an order passed by the collector (appeals) under section 35a of the excise act (as substituted by the finance (no.2) act, 1980), (c) against an order passed by the board or the appellate collector of central excise under section 35 (as it stood before 21.8.1980), and (d) against an order passed by the board or the collector ..... in england and concluded that the jurisdiction conferred on magistrates under the legislation before the court in thereferencewas analogous to the jurisdiction under the englishpoor laws,a jurisdiction which had belonged to courts of summary nature rather than to superior courts. ..... babu |deferred dower on the dissolution of marriage by ..... after amendment in section 45(4) which talks of | | | |dissolution or otherwise ..... |668 (mad) | | |5 |malabar fisheries|distribution of assets on dissolution is not transfer | | |v. ..... | | |share in the surplus, if any, after the dissolution of | | | |the .....

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1855

Bacon Vs. Robertson

Court : US Supreme Court

..... of the military and religious orders of knights, and whose lands returned to those who had granted them, and did not fall to the king as an escheat; or of cases of dissolution of monasteries and other ecclesiastical foundations upon the death of all their members; or of donations to public bodies, such as a mayor and commonalty. ..... he claims that the stockholders have no rights since the dissolution of the corporation, and if any, they must be looked for in the ..... there had been instances in great britain of the dissolution of public or ecclesiastical corporations by the exertion of the public authority or as a consequence of the death of their members, and parliament and the courts had affirmed in these instances that ..... and no reason can be given why the dissolution of a corporation, whether by judicial sentence or otherwise, whose capital was contributed by shareholders, for a lawful and perhaps laudable enterprise, with the consent of the legislature, should suspend the operation of ..... parts of a system, the latter act being auxiliary to and adopted in aid of the provisions of the earlier act of 1843 -- the two acts containing the full expression of the ..... the modern rules of the english courts have been adopted in the united states, extending the protection of chancery over the civil rights of members of moneyed corporations and recognizing the existence of distinct and ..... the early and late english cases examined as to what becomes of the property of a corporation whose charter .....

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Jan 10 2007 (SC)

Raja Ram Pal Vs. the Hon'ble Speaker, Lok Sabha and Ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : JT2007(2)SC1; (2007)3SCC184

..... (parliament) articles (state legislature) articles constitution & composition of houses and election/nomination of members 79 to 82 168 to 171 duration of houses and tenure of office of members 83 172 sessions, prorogation and dissolution 85 174 qualification for membership 84 173 cessation of membership (disqualifications for being chosen as, and for being a member, and vacancies) and decision on questions of disqualification 102, 101 & 103 192, 190 ..... constituents of the state will keep themselves within the domain of their authority and will not encroach, trespass or overstep the province of other organs but will also act in preserving, protecting and upholding the faith, confidence and trust reposed in them by the founding fathers of the constitution and by the people of this great country by mutual ..... this court held :but where, as in this country and unlike in england, there is a written constitution which constitutes the fundamental and in that sense a 'higher law' and acts as a limitation upon the legislature and other organs of the state as grantees under the constitution, the usual incidents of parliamentary sovereignty do not obtain and the concept is one ..... . the words 'shall be those of the house and of its members and committees immediately before coming into force of section 15 of constitution (forty forth amendment) act, 1978' in clause (3) of articles 105 and 194 have replaced the earlier words 'shall be those of the house of commons of parliament of the united ..... english .....

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Nov 15 1983 (HC)

Harvinder Kaur Vs. Harmander Singh Choudhry

Court : Delhi

Reported in : AIR1984Delhi66; ILR1984Delhi546; 1984RLR187

..... the first place he said that marriage, according to' hindu law, is a samsara or a .sacrament and a holy union for the performance of religious duties, divorce dissolution of marriage are concepts which were ..uoene.to 'hindu law before the statute stepped in to modify the.. ..... 13(1-a)(ii) says that if the withdrawing spouse is disobedient to the decree of restitution of conjugal rights and the husband and wife continue to live separately as before, each of them is entitled to a dissolution of marriage which has been a marriage in name only but in fact an empty legal shell. ..... the only alternative is the legal dissolution of marriage and not a restoration of the ..... this movement drew its inspiration from the matrimonial proceedings and property act 1970 which by section 20 abolished 'the right to claim restitution of conjugal rights ..... secondly it leads to the dissolution of the marriage, if there is no resumption ..... in the interests of the state that family life should be maintained, and that homes should not be broken up by the dissolution of the marriage of parents. ..... whether it is english law or the indian act marriage is a voluntary union for life of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all ..... is no warrant in authority extending over 150 years in england from where we have borrowed this matrimonial remedy, nor any in india before or after the passing of the act, for assigning to this remedy of conjugal rights the meaning given by chaudhary j. ..... the answer is dissolution of marriage. .....

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Apr 23 1945 (FN)

Cramer Vs. United States

Court : US Supreme Court

..... bare solicitation of the chastity of the queen or princess, or advances made by themselves; marrying with the king, by a woman not a virgin, without previously discovering to him such her unchaste life; judging or believing (manifested by any overt act) the king to have been lawfully married to anne of cleve; derogating from the king's royal stile and title; impugning his supremacy, and assembling riotously to the number of twelve, and not dispersing upon proclamation. . . . ..... but such is not the temper of the english law, and therefore, in this and the three next species of treason, it is necessary that there appear an open or overt act of a more full and explicit nature to convict the traitor upon." id., p. 79 ..... the substance of the overt act of adherence was that, when france and england were at war, the defendant cruised in a small ship of war, in english waters, in the service of france with intent to take the king's ships ..... in addition, the english law of treason itself applied, to an undefined extent, and several colonial acts were disallowed on the theory that they covered ground already occupied by the mother country's ..... that would be true only if there was a purpose to depart from the concept of adhering to the enemy or the concept of overt acts which had become ingrained in the antecedent english law. ..... of the acts substantially adopted the language of the latter statute, with additions, and some simply declared that the offense of treason should follow the english law. .....

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Apr 30 1951 (FN)

Joint Anti-fascist Refugee Committee Vs. Mcgrath

Court : US Supreme Court

..... in, affiliation with or sympathetic association with any foreign or domestic organization, association, movement, group or combination of persons, designated by the attorney general as totalitarian, fascist, communist, or subversive, or as having adopted a policy of advocating or approving the commission of acts of force or violence to deny other persons their rights under the constitution of the united states, or as seeking to alter the form of government of the united states by unconstitutional means. ..... any foreign or domestic organization, association, movement, group or combination of persons, designated by the attorney general as totalitarian, fascist, communist, or subversive, or as having adopted a policy of advocating or approving the commission of acts of force or violence to deny other persons their rights under the constitution of the united states, or as seeking to alter the form of government of the united states by unconstitutional means. ..... superintendent of insurance has begun proceedings, in which a representative of the attorney general of the united states has appeared, for dissolution of the order. ..... whose names were on the list were required to surrender themselves to such justice as was then administered to english protestants in dublin. ..... in france, james landed in ireland, where he was supported by those irish catholics who had suffered greatly at the hands of the english protestant colonists. ..... to be heard is recognized as well by the english courts. ..... english .....

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