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Phirni

village to the other and the circular roads around the village, Ishwar Singh v. State of Haryana, AIR 1996 P&H 30.

Persona designata

Persona designata, a persona designata, is 'a person who is pointed out or described as an individual, as opposed to a person ascertained as a member of a class, or as filling a particular character.' (See...

Officiating continuously in a senior post

Officiating continuously in a senior post, the ex-pression 'officiated continuously in a senior post' in Rule 3(3)(b) of the Seniority Rules is to be constructed to mean holding a senior post on officiating basis prior to...

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Person with low vision

appropriate assistive device. [Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 (1 of 1996), s. 2 (u)]

Person

Person, a Hindu Undivided Family is a person, Kshetra Mohan-Sannyasi Charan Sadhukhan v. Commissioner of Excess Profit Tax, West Bengal, AIR 1953 SC 516. According to company law it does not mean an unregistered firm, Firm...

Persecution

Persecution, implies a failure by the State to make protection available against the ill-treatment or violence which the person suffers at the hands of his persecutors, Horvath v. Home Secretary [HL(E)], (2000) 3 WLR 379. Persecution,...

Ownership

property. It is the external form in which claims normally manifest themselves, B. Gangadhar v. B.C. Rajalingam, AIR 1996 SC 780 (781). (1995) 5 SCC 238. Ownership denotes the relation between a person and an object forming

On behalf of

behalf of' means that the holder of the property is only a representative of the real owner, AIR 1996 Pat 371(372). (Wealth Tax Act, 1957, s. 21)

Office

the main office of an insurance company; a doctor's office, Webster's Encyclopaedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, 1996 Edn.; see also Goa Urban Coop. Bank Ltd. v. Noor Mohd. Sheikh Mussa, (2004) 6 SCC 166. Means

Negotiable

Negotiable, as a term of art describes an instrument which can give to a transferee a better title than that possessed by the transferor. A bill of lading is not 'negotiable' in this sense: the indorsee...

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