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Magna Carta
a place and time of meeting might be fixed for the purpose of his complying with their demands. Accordingly, the famous meadow called Runingmede, or Runemede (from the Saxon word rune, signifying council), situated on the southwest
Manufacturing purposes
SCR 257: (1973) 1 SCC 7. [Transfer of Property Act, (4 of 1882), s. 106] The word 'manufacture', according to its dictionary meaning, is the making of articles or material (now on large scale) by physical labour
Estate
be in possession, or in futuro; personal property may also be subject concurrently to a variety of ownerships, according to its nature; technically, in regard to land, the word is used to denote the quantity of interest,
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Intoxicating liquor
meaning 'spirits, wine, beer, porter, cider, perry, and sweets, and any fermented, distilled, or spirituous liquor which cannot, according to any law for the time being in force, be legally sold without an excise licence'; two licences
Church
the supreme head by Act of Parliament (1 Eliz. c. 1), but in what sense is not agreed. According to Sir Wiliam Anson, the sovereign is head of the Church, 'not for the purpose of discharging and
Includes
used in an interpretation clause, it must be construed as comprehending not only such things as they signify according to their nature and import but also those thing which the interpretation clause declares that they shall include,
equity
equity pl: -ties [Latin aequitat- aequitas fairness, justice, from aequus equal, fair] 1 a : justice according to fairness esp. as distinguished from mechanical application of rules [prompted by considerations of ] [comity between nations,
liable
liable [ultimately from Old French lier to bind, from Latin ligare] 1 : answerable according to law : bound or obligated according to law or equity [one is as an accomplice to the
mortgage
that is given to secure an obligation (as a debt) and that is defeated upon payment or performance according to stipulated terms [shows that a deed was intended only as a "W. M. McGovern, Jr. et al."]
Cast iron
in the Concise Oxford Dictionary as 'a hard alloy of iron, carbon and silicon cast in a mould'. According to New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary of English Language, the word 'cast iron' means 'an iron-carbon alloy produced in
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