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Requisition and acquisition

State has the power both of requisition as well as acquisition, subject to one condition, i.e., the property acquired or requisitioned must be for public purpose, Jiwani Kumar Paraki v. First Land Acquisition Collector, AIR 1984 SC

Usage

is described as different from custom as there is no usage through inheritance though a right can be acquired by prescription. 'Usage in its most extensive meaning, includes both custom and prescription, but in its narrower significance,

Thika tenant

monthly or at any other periodical rate, for that land to that another person and has erected or acquired by purchase or gift any structure on such land for a residential, manufacturing or business purpose and includes

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Title

or Williams on Vendors and Purchasers. See REAL REPRESENTATIVE and REGISTRATION. The title to things personal may be acquired by: (1) Occupancy. (2) Invention. (3) Prerogative. (4) Forfeiture. (5) Custom. (6) Succession. (7) Marriage. (8) Judgment. (9)

Tree

the land of the owner of the tree, Lemmon v. Webb, 1895 AC 1. No right can be acquired by prescription for trees to overhang: per Lord Macnaghten, ibid.; and an action lies for damage to crops

Trust

directory. (II.) Arising by operation of law, such as (a) Constructive, which arise when property which has been acquired in right of another is being retained by the trustee for his own benefit, or when the person

Ultra vires

the powers), said of a corporation or company when exceeding its authority. If the powers are given or acquired at common law or by custom or by charter, the corporation is a person at common law and

Undischarged bankrupt

any person dealing with him bona fide and for value in respect of any property, real or personal, acquired by the bank-rupt after adjudication, are valid against the trustee if completed before he intervenes (Bankruptcy Act, 1914,

University

see infra. Parliamentary Franchise.-Oxford and Cambridge had the franchise for two members each from the earliest times; London acquired it by ss. 24 and 41-45 of the Representation of the People Act, 1867, for one member, and

Usucapio

Usucapio, the enjoying, by continuance of time, a long possession or prescription; property acquired by use or possession, Civ. Law. See LIMITATION.

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