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Requisition

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Requisition, made by a creditor, that a debt be paid or an obligation fulfilled, Bell's Scots Law Dict.; and (by Government) France, Fenwick & Co. Ltd. v. Rex, (1926) 43 TLR 18.

An authoritative, formal demand; a governmental seizure of property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1307.

Requisition, unlike acquisition, is of a temporary nature and though it may extend over some years, it has not the element of permanence, Commissioner of Income Tax v. Manna Ramji & Co., AIR 1973 SC 515 (518): (1973) 3 SCC 43: (1973) 1 SCR 1068.

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