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Pedigree

Amendment Act, 1859, s. 24, now L.P. Act, 1925, s. 183 (1) (b); and see the Forgery Act, 1913. As to the admissibility of hearsay evidence in questions of pedigee, see Taylor on Evidence, s. 571; Hubback

Poll

Poll, to give a vote at an election; also to receive a vote; also a taking of votes of all persons entitled to vote present, by proxy, or otherwise, as opposed to counting the votes of...

Power of Court to order meeting to be called

company duly called, held and conducted. It corresponds with slight variation to s. 79(3) of the Companies Act, 1913 and s. 135 of the English Companies Act, 1948; R. Rangachari v. S. Suppiah, AIR 1976 SC 73:

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Obscene

which the community may have arrived here and now, United States v. Kennerley, 209 F 119 (121) (S.D.N.Y. 1913). Obscene, the Indian Penal Code borrowed the word from the English Statute. The Common law offence of obscenity

Official trustee

6, Married Women's Property Act is not the legal person referred to in the Official Trustees Act of 1913, which is a corporation sole, Smt. Haridasi Debi v. Manufacturers Life Assurance Co. Ltd., AIR 1937 Cal 379:

Market

Market [anciently written mercat, fr. mercatus, Lat.], a public time and place of buying and selling; also purchase and sale. It differs from the forum, or market of antiquity, which was a public market-place on one...

Niger territories

Niger territories, now the Nigerian Protectorate, by O.C., S.R. & O., 1913, No. 1267, p. 232.

Necessaries

Necessaries, a relative term, not strictly limited to such things as are absolutely requisite for support and subsistence, but to be construed liberally, and varying with the state and degree, the rank, fortune, and age of...

Moral Imbeciles

or criminal propensities on which punishment has had little or no deterrent effect'; see (English) Mental Deficiency Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 28), s. 1 (d). They constitute one of the four classes of

Money of account, money of measurement money of payment

collection of duties of customs and excise and income tax under the (English) Provisional Collection of Taxes Act, 1913, see CUSTOMS.

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