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Supplementary proceedings

jurisdiction in the interest of justice, Vareed Jacob v. Sosamma Geevarghese, (2004) 6 SCC 378 (399). (Civil PC, 1908)

Support

the risk of future subsidence must not be taken into account, West Leigh Colliery v. Tunnicliffe & Hampson, 1908 AC 27. The right to support does not extend to support by underground percolating waters; abstracting these so

Tantum prescriptum quantum possessum

any claim or colour of title, Onkarmal Agarwalla v. Bireswar Hazra, AIR 1959 Cal 195 (200). (Limitation Act, 1908, Art. 142, 144)

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Tax

to the direction of the Treasury, of excise, by the Commissioners of Customs and Excise: see Finance Act, 1908, s. 4, and Orders in Council made thereunder. As to the collection of taxes for a limited period

Temporary injunction or interlocutory injunction

injunction may be granted at any period of a suit and are regulated by Code of Civil Procedure, 1908.

Third party

Third party, means a person other than the citizen making a request for information and includes a public authority. [Right to Information Act, 2005 (22 of 2005), s. 2(n)] Means a person other than the person...

Seisin

Seisin, possession. The word is now confined to the possession of an estate of freehold. Possession of a freehold estate in land; ownership, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1362. There is a seisin in deed,...

Seamen

Seamen, persons engaged in navigating ships, barges, etc., upon the high seas. Those employed for this purpose upon rivers, lakes, or canals are denominated watermen. The (English) Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 and 1906 (57 & 58...

Privy purse

3 SCR 207; see also Ragunandan Rao Ganpatrao v. Union of India, AIR 1993 SC 1267. [Civil PC, 1908 s. 60(i)(g)]

Reformatory Schools

Reformatory Schools. Section 44 of the (English) Children Act, 1908, defined a 'reformatory school' as 'a school for the industrial training of youthful offenders, in which youthful offenders

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