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Religious denomination

and a common spiritual organisation come under the definition of denomination, Shirur Math v. Commission of Endowment, (1952) 1 MLJ 557. Religious denomination, enjoys certain rights per-taining to the establishment, management etc., of its own religion and

Land

State of Maharashtra v. Narayan Vyankatesh Deshpande, AIR 1976 SC 1204: (1976) 3 SCC 404: (1976) 3 SCR 980. The word 'land' in Entry 49 of List 2 is wide enough to include all lands, whether agricultural … est solum ejus est altum. See Co. Litt. 4 a. In an (English) Act of Parliament passed after 1850 'land' includes messuages, tenements and hereditaments, houses, and buildings of any tenure, Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 3. By

Black Act

Black Act, 9 Geo. 1, c. 22 (English), so called because it was occasioned by the outrages committed by persons with

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Mortgage

(5) (now Jud. Act, 1925, s. 4, and repeated by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 98); but see Turner v. Walsh, (1909) 2 KB 484. The (English) Conveyancing Act, 1881 (44 & 45 Vict. … or seven years, is, however allowed, Biggs v. Hoddinott, (1898) 2 Ch 311, and see Davis v. Symons, 1934 Ch 42 (covenant not to redeem for twenty years not allowed; redemption allowed in six months). Every kind

Civil nature

Mar Marthoma, 1995 Supp (4) SCC 286: AIR 1995 SC 2001 (2023). [Civil P.C. (5 of 1908), s. 9, Expln. 1] The word 'civil nature' is wider than the word 'civil proceeding'. The s. would, therefore, be

H'retico comburendo, De

somehow two men were burnt in her reign and two under James I. by 29 Car. 2, c. 9, s. 1, the writ de h'retico comburendo was abolished, but with a saving for the jurisdiction of Protestant

Disposition

of Estate Duty v. Shri Kantilal Trikamlal, (1976) 4 SCC 643: AIR 1976 SC 1935: (1977) 1 SCR 9. The term 'disposition' has been defined in Stroud's Judicial Dictionary as a devise 'intended to comprehend a mode

Operator

1992 Supp (2) SCC 436: AIR 1992 SC 117; see also State of Maharashtra v. Sundaram Finance, (1999) 9 SCC 1. [Kerala Motor Vehicles (Taxation of Passengers and Goods) Act, 1963, s. 2(b) as amended by Kerala

Customary Court-baron

compe the attendance of his tenants who hold by villein or base services, 2 Wat.Cop., c. i. p. 9; and see Elton or Scriven on Copyholds. It is to be observed that although there should be no … both), the want of freeholders does not preclude the lord from holding a customary court for his copyholders, 1 Cruise's Dig., tit. X., c. i. s. 19. See COURT-BARON.

Underworld

useless thing, the 'life' of others, State of Maharashtra v. Bharat Chaganlal Raghani, AIR 2002 SC 409: (2001) 9 SCC 1. [Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Preven-tion) Act, 1987 s. 3(1)]

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