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Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, a tribunal of Privy Councilors, established by 2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 92, for the disposal of appeals to the Sovereign in Council. It consists of the

Alnager, or Auinager

fixed seals to it, and also collected a subsidiary or aulnage duty on all cloths sold (25 Edw. 3, st. 4, c. 1).there were afterwards three officers belonging to the regulation of clothing, viz., searcher, measurer, and

Presumption

does not logically or necessarily follow from the proved facts, State of West Bengal v. Mohd Khalil, (2000) 4 SCC 594 (602). … is merely plausible, Ram Kishan Bedu Rane v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1973 SC 246: (1973) 1 SCC 366. Presumption is an inference of a certain fact drawn from other proved facts. While inferring the existence of

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Way

created by the immemorial usage, which supposes a grant. By the Prescription Act, 1832 (2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 71), s. 2, it is enacted that no claim by custom, prescription, or grant, to any way … kinds of ways:-1st, a footway (iter); 2nd, a footway and horseway (actus, vulgarly called packe and prime way; 3rd, via or aditus, which contains the other two, and also a cartway, etc.; and this is two-fold, viz.,

Vice-Admiralty Courts

in his Majesty's possessions beyond the seas with jurisdiction over maritime causes, including those relating to prize. See 3 Steph. Com. The Vice-Admiralty Courts Act, 1863 (26 Vict. c. 24), repealed 2 & 3 Wm. 4 c.

Settlement

be settled by reason of an estoppel [see Poor Law Act, 1930 (20 Geo. 5, c. 17), Part III.]. See DERIVATIVE SETTLEMENT; POOR LAWS; and Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Poor (Settlement and Removal).' Means settling the property, right

Savings banks

Savings banks, institutions for the safe custody and increase of the small savings of the poor. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Savings Banks.' They are: (1) Trustee; (2) Post Office; (3) Military; (4) Statutory; (5) Uncontrolled. (1)...

Reasonableness and in public interest

been laid down by this court in E. P. Royappa v. State of Tamil Nadu, (1974) 2 SCR 348: (1974) 4 SCC 3) and Maneka Gandhi case, (1978) 2 SCR 621: (1978) 1 SCC 248 that Article

Overdue

Overdue, past the time of payment. By s. 36 (2), (3), and (4) of the (English) Bills of Exchange Act, 1882:- (2) where an overdue bill is

Ouster

freehold or of chattels real. Ouster of the freehold was effected by various methods: 1, abatement; 2, intrusion; 3, disseisin; 4, discontinuance; and 5, deforcement. Ouster of chattels real consists: 1st, of a motion of possession from

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