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Water and watercourse

Water and watercourse. In the language of the law the term 'land' includes water, 2 Bl. Com. 18. An action cannot be brought to recover possession of a pool or other piece of water by the...

Trade Union

Trade Union. The Acts 30 & 31 Vict. cc. 8, 74, provided for facilitating the proceedings of a commission appointed by Queen Victoria to inquire into and report on the organization and rules of trade unions,...

Sessions of the peace

Sessions of the peace, sittings of justices of the peace for the execution of those powers which are confided to them by their commission, or by charter, and by numerous statutes. They are of three descriptions:-...

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Seizure

Seizure, 'seizure' means something different because here seizure means that the Commissioner would take into possession the account books and take them outside the possession of the assessee, Mangat Rai v. State of Madhya Pradesh (1969)...

Residential house

Residential house, must be treated as including a flat constructed above the commercial plot on the ground floor. This will be so even if originally the plot was allotted for commercial purposes, if incidentally construction of...

Rape

Rape, extends also to the forcible sexual intercourse by a woman with a man, as well as the offence of rape as defined in the Indian Penal Code speaks only of forcible sexual intercourse by a...

Poaching

Poaching, taking name by trespass. Also taking fish, e.g., salmon and trout by illegal methods (see infra). Trespassing in the daytime in pursuit of 'game'--i.e., hares, pheasants, partridges, grouse, heath or moor game, black game, or...

Not involving the carrying on of any activity of profit

Not involving the carrying on of any activity of profit, as a result of the addition of the words 'not involving the carrying on of any activity for profit' in the present definition over that in...

Marriage

Marriage. Marriage as understood in Christendom is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others, Hyde v. Hyde, 1866 LR 1 P&D 130. Where a marriage in...

Luxury

Luxury, as an entirely relative term; a free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastees; also a mode of life characterized by material abundance and gratification of expensive...

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Water and watercourse

Water and watercourse. In the language of the law the term 'land' includes water, 2 Bl. Com. 18. An action cannot be brought to recover possession of a pool or other piece of water by the...

Trade Union

Trade Union. The Acts 30 & 31 Vict. cc. 8, 74, provided for facilitating the proceedings of a commission appointed by Queen Victoria to inquire into and report on the organization and rules of trade unions,...

Sessions of the peace

Sessions of the peace, sittings of justices of the peace for the execution of those powers which are confided to them by their commission, or by charter, and by numerous statutes. They are of three descriptions:-...

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Seizure

Seizure, 'seizure' means something different because here seizure means that the Commissioner would take into possession the account books and take them outside the possession of the assessee, Mangat Rai v. State of Madhya Pradesh (1969)...

Residential house

Residential house, must be treated as including a flat constructed above the commercial plot on the ground floor. This will be so even if originally the plot was allotted for commercial purposes, if incidentally construction of...

Rape

Rape, extends also to the forcible sexual intercourse by a woman with a man, as well as the offence of rape as defined in the Indian Penal Code speaks only of forcible sexual intercourse by a...

Poaching

Poaching, taking name by trespass. Also taking fish, e.g., salmon and trout by illegal methods (see infra). Trespassing in the daytime in pursuit of 'game'--i.e., hares, pheasants, partridges, grouse, heath or moor game, black game, or...

Not involving the carrying on of any activity of profit

Not involving the carrying on of any activity of profit, as a result of the addition of the words 'not involving the carrying on of any activity for profit' in the present definition over that in...

Marriage

Marriage. Marriage as understood in Christendom is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others, Hyde v. Hyde, 1866 LR 1 P&D 130. Where a marriage in...

Luxury

Luxury, as an entirely relative term; a free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastees; also a mode of life characterized by material abundance and gratification of expensive...

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