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Disability

(i) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) (vi) (vii)] 'Disability' means the absence of power, Shanti Kumar & Chanji v. House Insurance Co., AIR 1974 SC 1719 (1722). Means where the disablement is of a temporary nature, such

Limitation of actions and prosecutions

the (English) Limitation Act, 1623, and the principal succeeding ones, the Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 42), the (English) Civil Procedure Act (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 27) [see Read … Will. 4, c. 27) [see Read v. Price, (1909) 2 KB 724], and 37 & 38 Vict. c. 57, the (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1874, certain periods are fixed within which, upon the principle Interest reipublic'

Copyhold

Legislature have been much directed to the facilitation of enfranchisement, but the (English) Copyhold Act, 1841 (4 & 5 Vict. c. 35), and its amending Acts were purely permissive, and merely facilitated the commutation and enfran-chisement by … must prevail. Subject to any such custom, the alterations effected by the (English) Inheritance Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 106), are applicable to the species of tenure. (6) Copyholds are alienated by surrender, according

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Preamble

in case of ambiguity in the statute itself. Preamble, which in early (English) Acts (see, e.g., 4 & 5 W. & M. c. 18, the Act of Settlement, and the Irish Act, 1 Car. 1, c. 1), … or in a Bill to give effect to international conventions, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1977, p. 462. Preamble, introduction, preface; also the beginning of an Act of Parliament, etc., serving to portray the interests of

Annuity

is charged for such payment, CWT v. P. K. Banerjee, (1981) 1 SCC 63 (75): AIR 1981 SC 401. [Wealth-Tax Act, 1957, s. 2(e)(1)(iv)] It is a right to receive a specified sum and not an aliquot … sum annually made and is a charge personally on the grantor, CWT v. Arundhati Balkrishna, (1970) 1 SCC 561 (565): AIR 1971 SC 915. [Wealth Tax Act, 1957, s. 2(e)(iv)] An annuity is a fixed sum payable

Constable

constables were appointed by the justices of the peace under 2 & 3 Vict. c. 93; 3 & 4 Vict. c. 88; and 19 & 20 Vict. c. 69, the County and Borough Police Act, 1856, by … unions. By the (English) Police (Weekly Rest-Day) Act, 1910, a constable is to be off duty at least 52 days in the year, and as far as practicable to have one day's rest in seven. By the

Transfer

of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1993 MP 132. [See M.P. Ceiling on Agricultural Holdings Act (20 of 1960), ss. 4, 5] Transfer, in relation thereto means the doing of anything including by way of an agreement or arrangement which

Admiralty

1893 AC 468, Judicature Act, 1925, s. 22, and Administration of Justice Act, 1928 (18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 49), s. 58. The Judge now holds his appointment of the Crown as a Judge of the … jurisdiction, which is conferred by U.S. Constitution (Article III 2, Cl. 1), Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 47. The Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice was, as far as relates to

Partition

or disability of any other of them direct a sale of the property accordingly; and see also ss. 4, 5. The (English) Partition Act, 1876, further amended the law. After 1925, co-owners, coparceners and all others entitled to

Apportionment

rent between the representatives of a deceased tenant for life, and the person succeeding in remainder, and by 4 & 5 Wm. 4, c. 22, passed to obviate doubts which had arisen upon the earlier Act. The

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