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legal custody

legal custody The right to make important decisions about the raising of your child, on issues such as health care, religious upbringing, education, etc. ...

Legal Einsteinism, read in context, it implies that are no absolutes in law. 'legal Einsteinism guides the court, and not doctrinal absolutes... ' [Fatehchand v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1977 SC 1825 (1829), para 7]. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)...

legal entity

legal entity : an entity (as a corporation or labor union) having under the law rights and responsibilities and esp. the capacity to sue and be sued ...

Legal entity

Legal entity, only a thing recognised by the law as real in itself and distinct from its qualities and attributes and, while every legal person is necessarily a legal entity, the converse is not true, Ittiavira Thomas v. Sankaranarayanan Kesavan Nampori of Manakkattu, AIR 1964 Ker 144....

legal estate

legal estate see estate ...

legal fiction

legal fiction : something asssumed in law to be fact irrespective of the truth or accuracy of that assumption [the legal fiction that a day has no fractions "Fields v. Fairbanks North Star Borough, 818 P.2d 658 (1991)"] ...

Legal fiction

Legal fiction, it must be confined to the limited purpose for which it is created, Commissioner of Sales Tax v. Union Medical Agency, (1981) 1 SCC 51: AIR 1981 SC 1.The Supreme Court thus while laying down the principles on the basis of which a deeming provision should be construed held 'a legal fiction must be limited to the purposes for which it is created and not to be extended beyond its legitimate field', K.S. Dharmadatan v. Central Government, AIR 1979 SC 1495: (1979) 4 SCC 204.Legal fiction pre-supposes the correctness of the state of facts on which it is based and all the consequences which flow from that state of facts have got to be worked out to their logical extent, Bengal Immunity Co. v. State of Bihar, (1955) 2 SCR 603: AIR 1955 SC 661 (709). [Constitution of India, Article 286(2)]...

legal fraud

legal fraud see fraud ...

legal heir

legal heir see heir ...

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