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Act of Parliament

effect given to resolutions varying or renewing taxation, see (English) Provisional Collection of Taxes Act, 1913 (3 Geo. 5, c. 3), and (English) Finance Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 28), s. 12. The Royal … the contrary, operative from the date of notification in the Gazette, Handbook for Members of Rajya Sabha, April, 2002. Means an action; a thing done or established; a written law formally passed by the legislative power of

Locomotives. I

cars, see MOTOR CAR. Now light locomotives as defined by the (English) Road Traffic Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 43), are mechanically propelled vehicles which are not constructed themselves to carry any load (other

Food stuff

v. Virkumar Gulabchand Shah, AIR 1952 SC 335: (1952) SCR 877. [Essential Supplies (Temporary powers) Act, 1946, s. 2(9)] 'Foodstuff' need not necessarily mean only the final food product which is consumed. It also includes raw food … Process of cooking the derivative is nonetheless foodstuff, Welcome Hotel v. State of Andhra Pradesh, (1983) 4 SCC 575: AIR 1983 SC 1015 (1018). [Essential Commodities Act, 1955, s. 2(a)(v)] By 'foodstuffs' is meant food of any

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Sovereignty

by definition to be sovereign. Sardar Govindrao v. State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1982 SC 1201 (1204): (1982) 2 SCC 414: (1982) 3 SCR 729. [C.P. & Berar Revocation of Land Revenue Exemption Act, 37 of (1948), … affairs without foreign dictation; also a political society or State which is sovereign and independent, Black's Law Dictionary, 5th Edn., p. 1252. The term 'sovereignty' is difficult to define. It is the exercise of sovereign power which

Office of profit

Sudarshan Reddy v. District Collector, AIR 1964 AP 421. [Hyderabad District Municipalities Act, 1956 (18 of 1956), s. 27(1)(c)] A medical practitioner working as a panel doctor appointed under the Employees' State Insurance Scheme does not hold … other than Government revenue is not always a decisive factor, Abdul Shakur v. Ribhab Chand, AIR 1958 SC 52 (55). [Constitution of India, Article 58(1)] The holding of such an office under the Crown in general incapacitates

Benefice

incapable of sale after the benefice has been twice vacant subsequent to 14 July, 1924; and by s. 2 a patron may make a declaration under seal that his right of patronage shall thenceforth be without power … the intended collation or admission. By the (English) Benefices Act, 1898 (Amendment) Measure, 1923 (14 & 15 Geo. 5, No. 1), s. 1, a right of patronage is to be incapable of sale after the benefice has

Hare

and Game Certificate Acts (see GAME); but by the (English) Hares Act, 1848 (11 & 12 Vict. c. 29), both occupier and owner may kill hares without a certificate, and by the (English) Ground Game Act, 1880 … no close time for hares in England until 1892, when the (English) Hares Preservation Act, 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 8), prohibited the sale of any hare or leveret in any part of Great Britain in

Parliament, the Imperial

Britain and Ireland, now, by the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act, 1927 (17 Geo. 5, c. 4), s. 2, styled the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, (Southern Ireland or the Irish

Pr'munire

of Edward III., and was the foundation of all the subsequent statute of pr'munire, of which 16 Rich. 2, c. 5, passed in 1392, is the 'Statute of Pr'munire' generally so called, and incorporated by reference in

Restrictive Covenant

Property Act, 1925, ss. 78 and 79) of the (servient) land having notice of the covenant, see Tulk v. Moxhay, 2 Phil 774, and Smith's L.C., Notes to Spencer's case. Upon sale of land under a building … agreement (not being made between lessor and lessee), restrictive of the user of the land, and see s. 20 (11), ibid. Such a covenant is in the nature of an equitable easement restricting the use or enjoyment

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