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Toll
Toll [fr. tollo, Lat.], to bar, defeat, or take away, as to 'toll an entry' is to deny and take away the right of entry. See (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm....
Royalty
Royalty, a payment reserved by the grantor of a patent, lease of a mine or similar right, and payable proportionately to the use made of the right by the grantee. It is usually a payment of...
Otti
Otti, in Malabar, the word 'otti' in the context of the deed designates a possessory mortgage, Kuchian Govinda Swami v. Kallani Amma Lakshmi Amma, 1966 Supp SCR 135: AIR 1966 SC 1937 (1938).
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Offence not punishable with death or transporta-tion for life
transporta-tion for life', State v. Sheo Shanker, AIR 1956 All 326 (327). [U.P. First Offenders Act, (6 of 1938), s. 4]
Bills of quantities
Bills of quantities, is a document which itemizes the work described in the drawings and specification. It too will be split into sections or elements frequently in accordance with the rules or recommendations of standard methods...
Kuzhikanam
Kuzhikanam, 'kuzhikanam' means and includes a transfer of garden lands or of other lands or of both, with the fruit-bearing trees, if any, standing thereon at the time of the transfer, for the enjoyment of those...
Employer
of service or apprenticeship, means such other person while the workman is working for him. [Employers' Liability Act, 1938, s. 2 (b); Also see Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923 (4 of 1936), s. 2 (1) (e)] Includes the
Discover
applies to the discovery of an error in law and an error in fact, IRC v. Mackinlay's Trustees, 1938 SC 765: 22 TC 305 (UK).
Aggression
Aggression, is not to be confused with war only. It being an all comprehensive word with a very wide meaning and complex dimensions, its meaning cannot be explained by a strait-jacket formula but will depend on...
Actuary
1884. An actuary possessing such qualifications as may be by regulations made by authority. [Insurance Act (4 of 1938), s. 2(a)] Means a person skilled in determining the present effects of future contingent events or in finance
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