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Heat of passion

or furious hatred sudden aroused by some immediate provocation, usu. another person's words or action, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 726. Requires that there must be no time for the passion to cool down and the

Gas

the latter had become of subsidiary importance. See gas (English) (Standard of Calorific Power) Act, 1916 (6 & 7 Geo. 5, c. 25). Finally, the thermal system of charge was adopted, see (English) Gas Regulation Act, 1920

Corn Tax Abolition Act (English)

c. 14), s. 4, reimposed under the guise of 3d. per cwt. By the Finance Act,1902 (2 Edw. 7, c. 7), s. 1, but taken off again by the Finance Act, 1903 (3 Edw. 7, c. 8)

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Amalgamation

taking over the other. It has no precise legal meanings, Singer India Ltd. v. Chander Mohan Chandha, (2004) 7 SCC 1, [Halsbury' Laws of England, 4th Edn., Vol. 7, para 1539] Amalgamation is a blending of two

Emphyteusis

he pleased (Nov. vii. 3, 2); he could create a servitude over it or mortgage it (D xiii. 7, 16, 2); he had a real action (which, however, was said to be a utilis vindicatio, because he

Accounts, falsification of

that Act must belong to or be in possession of the employer, R. v. Palin, 1906 (1) KB 7. Falsification of accounts may amount to forgery within the (English) Forgery Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5,

Contract carriage

Contract carriage, means a motor vehicle which carries a passenger or passengers for hire or reward and is engaged under a contract, whether expressed or implied, for the use of such vehicle as a whole for...

Manufacture

a distinctive name, character or use, Union of India v. Delhi Cloth and General Mills, AIR 1963 SC 791. Implies a change, but every change is not manufacture and yet every change of an article is the

Malice in law

or indirect object, State of Andhra Pradesh v. Goverdhan Pilti, AIR 2003 SC 1941 (1945): (2003) 4 SCC 739. Means any action resorted to for an unauthorized purpose would construe malice in law. Even in the absence

Factory

6 Schedules, consolidated, with a few amendments, the 17 Acts from that of 1802 (42 Geo. 3, c. 73), to 37 & 38 Vict. c. 44 (the Factory Act, 1874), by which the labour of women, young

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