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Down syndrome
A congenital disorder caused by an extra chromosome 21 in some or all cells It causes a variable number and degree of abnormalities including retarded growth mental
Clerk of the peace
Council General Powers Act, 1930 (c. clix.), ss. 26-28. Removal is regulated by 1 Wm. & M. c. 21, and (English) Local Government Clerks Act, 1931 (21 & 22 Geo. 5, c. 45), ss. 2, 3, 4.
Contingent legacy
been exhausted. The rule that contingent gifts which cannot vest within a life or lives in being and 21 years after-wards are void not only in regard to gifts to particular persons but in regard to the … dies under that age. These are said to be positive rules of construction, Williams on Executors and Administrators, 12th Edn. P. 794, but the prima facie inference may be negatived by the context of the will taken
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Entertain
AIR 1970 SC 1093: (1970) 2 SCR 898. The expression 'entertain' in proviso to cl. (b) of Or. 21, r. 90,Civil Procedure Code,1908 means 'adjudicate upon' or 'proceed to consider on merits' and not 'initiation of proceeding', … consider on merits' and not 'initiation of proceeding', Hindusthan Commercial Bank Ltd. v. Punnu Sahu (1971) 3 SCC 124: AIR 1970 SC 1384. [Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (As amended by Allahabad High Court) O. 21, R. 90]
Lease
not a lease for life or lives, or (not after 1925) limited to take effect in possession within 21 years as required by the Act; see infra. Until 1926, under a lease for years, except a lease … he is considered to be a tenant, Associated Hotels of India Ltd. v. R.N. Kapoor, AIR 1959 SC 1262. Means a lease of immovable property, and includes also-- (a) a patta; (b) a kabuliyat or other undertaking
Peace, Clerk of the
5. c. 45). He may be removed for misbehaviour in his office under 1 M. & W. c. 21, by the justices in Quarter Sessions, as amended by the Clerks of the (English) Peace Removal Act, 1864
Procedure established by law
the State, Collector of Malabar v. Erimmal Ebrahim Hajee, AIR 1957 SC 688. (See Constitution of India, Art. 21) Means the procedure prescribed by the law of the State. (Constitution of India, Art. 21) The term 'Procedure
Retainer
party may at any time be involved; this is called a general retainer. Subject to rr. 20 and 21 of the Retainer Rules, a special retainer is binding if duly tendered, whether accepted or not, but there
Visitor
the right of visitation on behalf of the Crown, in whom the right (see 25 Hen. 8, c. 21 and 1 Eliz. c. 1, s. 2) of visitation and inspection lies, in default of special visitors. Under
Judge
it is enacted by s. 5 of the (English) Jud. Act, 1875 (replaced by Jud. Act, 1925, s. 12), repeating in effect a provision of the Act of Settlement (12 & 13 Wm. 3, c. 2), that
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