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Cartel
words, it amounts to an unfair trade practice which is not in the public interest. The intention to acquire monopoly power can be spelt from formation of such a cartel by some of the producers, Union of
Burial ground
an adoptive Burial Act (15 & 16 Vict. c. 85), enabled elective 'burial boards' of metropolitan parishes to acquire land for burial grounds, and this Act was applied to boroughs and parishes by an Act of 1853
Invention, title by
Invention, title by, the mode of acquiring an owner-ship in patent-rights and copyrights. See COPY-RIGHT and LETTERS PATENT.
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Negotiable instruments
common rule, freely assignable from one to another, such as bills of exchange and promissory notes. Any person acquiring a negotiable instrument for value and in good faith can enforce the contract contained in it against the
Jura rerum
Jura rerum (the rights which a person may acquire in things).
Open space
London County Council, under s. 40, sub-s. 8, of the (English) Local Government Act, 1888) had power to acquire and to hold of the use of the public any open spaces within the metropolis. These Acts were
Annexation
state. See West Rand Gold Mining Co. v. R., 1905 (2) KB 391. Occurs when the Occupying Power acquires and makes the occupied territory as its own. Annexation gives a de jure right to administer the territory.
Property belonging to the society
belonging to the society' does not give the society a corporate status in the matter of hold-ing and acquiring property; it merely describes the property which vests in the trustees or governing body for the time being,
Procure
of'. It has been defined in the Oxford English Dictionary to mean 'to gain, win, get possession of, acquire'. This is the correct meaning of the word as used in sub-s. (5) of s. 123 of the
Precedent
alone binding as a precedent, Uttaranchal Road Transport Corporation v. Mansaram Nainwal, (2000) 6 SCC 366. A precedent acquirers added authority from lapse of time, the longer a precedent has remained unquestioned, the more hard it becomes
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