1908 - Law Dictionary Search Results
Promissory Note
Promissory Note, defined in the Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, s. 83, as 'an unconditional promise in writing, made by one person to another, signed, by the maker, engaging to pay on demand, or at a...
Promoter
Promoter, a term anciently sometimes applied to a common informer generally (see 5 Inst. 191), but in modern times applied only to the prosecutor of an ecclesiastical suit, as in Combe v. Edwards, (1878) 3 PD...
Pronounce judgment
Union of India v. Manager Jain & Associates, (2001) 3 SCC 277: AIR 2001 SC 809. [Civil PC, 1908, O. 20, R. 4(2)]
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Protector of the settlement
survived and the last surviving protector could exercise it (Sugd. R.P. Stat., pp. 201, 204; Cohen v. Bayley-Worthington, 1908, AC 97). Under the provisions of the Law of Property Act, 1925, Sch. vii., repealing s. 32 of
Public health
of Births Acts, 1907 and 1915; Maternity and Child Welfare Act, 1918; Part I. of the Children Act, 1908, and consequential legislation; Canal Boats Acts, 1877 and 1884; and many of the Public Health Acts (Water, 1878);
Public meeting
by persons advocating the extension of the parliamentary franchise to women there was passed the Public Meeting Act, 1908, which by s. 1 provides as follows:- 1.-(1) Any person who at a lawful public meeting acts in
Public mischief
Jones, (1936) 1 KB 218 (public meeting, apprehension of breach of the peace); and see Public Meeting Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 66), and title infra.
Public officer
Government, or remunerated by fees or commission for the performance of any public duty. [Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, s. 2 (17)] The general name for any authorized officer acting in a public capacity under the Crown
Public policy
Public policy, connotes some matter which concerns public good and the public interest. Expression does not admit of precise definition. Concept of 'public policy' is considered to be vague, susceptible to narrow or wider meaning depending...
Public prosecutor
Public Prosecutions. This fusion of offices, however, was subsequently done away with by the Prosecution of Offences Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 3). By the Act of 1884 (47 & 48 Vict. c. 58), s. 3,
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