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Marriage, Promise of

Marriage, Promise of, need not be in writing, although an 'agreement in consideration of marriage' must be, by s. 4 of the Statute of Frauds. So it was decided, overruling an earlier decision to the contrary,...

Qabiz darmiani

in which it is used in the Oudh Rent Acts; Kunwar Man Singh v. Bindeshwari Bakshi Singh, AIR 1937 Oudh 473: 190 IA 595. [Oudh Rent Act, 1869]

Qui facit per alium facit per se

is not a doctrine of criminal law, but of civil law, Maung New v. Maung Po Hla, AIR 1937 Rang 117. The rule as to agency is expressed in the maxim qui facit per alium, facit per

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Quota

one year up to the end of March, 1938, for renting or exhibiting films in that year. In 1937 and 1938 the proportion in either case is 20 per cent. in coal mines, district schemes under Coal

Rank

Rank, refers to a position, especially an official one, within a social organization, of high social order or other standing status, S.C. Advocate-on-Record Asn. v. Union of India, AIR 1994 SC 268. The word 'rank' has...

Regency

appointed to administer a kingdom during the incapacity, minority, or absence of the sovereign. The (English) Regency Act, 1937 (1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6, c. 16), provides for the person next in line of succession

Separate property

his 'separate property' within the meaning of s. 3(1) of the (English) Hindu Women's Right to Property Act, 1937, Manohar Lal Ganeriwalla v. Bhuri Bai, AIR 1972 SC 1369 (1371): (1973) 3 SCC 432. See also AIR

Spear

word 'spear' is used in s. 4 of the Arms Act in contra distinction with spear head, AIR 1937 All 228.

Specific performance

Specific performance. Equity, in obedience to the cardinal rule of natural justice that a person should perform his agreement enforces, pursuant to a regulated and judicial discretion, the actual accomplishment of a thing stipulated for, on...

Tithe Rent-Charge

of arrears de before 2nd October, 1936 (see Queen Anne's Bounty v. Tithe Redemption Commission, Times, 10th July, 1937). Sec. 23 excludes tithe rent-charges extinguished by the Act from rates and future valuation lists. For the meaning

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