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Definition :

Relief, legal remedy for wrongs, etc.; charitable assistance.

A payment made by an heir of a feudal tenant to the feudal lord for privilege of succeeding to ancestor's tenancy, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1293.

In the feudal law a payment made to the lord by the tenant coming into possession of an estate held under him. Abolished with other feudal grievances.

Relief with respect to Election Offences. If a candidate at a parliamentary or municipal election has become responsible in respect of an election offence committed unwittingly, or which he has taken all reasonable means to prevent, he can apply or relief at the trial of an election petition, or if no petition is on the record, to the High Court, under Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act, 1883 (46 & 47 Vict. c. 51), the application being usually to a Divisional Court; see Shaw v. Reckitt, (1893) 1 QB 779; 2 QB 59; and as to municipal elections under the Municipal Elections (Corrupt and Illegal Practices) Act, 1884, ss. 7 and 8, see Nichol v. Fearby, (1923) 1 KB 480.

Relief against Forfeiture of Lease. See FORFEITURE; and see TRUSTEES.

Relief, means measures taken during or immediately after a declaration of disasters to diminish, or alleviate any suffering, pain, injury or distress or hardship caused on account of the disaster. [Gujarat State Disaster Management Act, 2003, s. 2(f)]