Acquiring Authority - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: acquiring authorityAcquiring authority
Acquiring authority, means in relation to land, the person or body of persons by whom the interest is, or is proposed to be, acquired, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 8(1), 4th Edn., Para 106, Note 1, p. 90....
acquire
acquire ac·quired ac·quir·ing : to come into possession, ownership, or control of : obtain as one's own [the target's directors don't want the company to be acquired "R. C. Clark"] [the court acquired jurisdiction] ac·quir·er also ac·qui·ror [ə-kwīr-ər] n ...
jurisdiction
jurisdiction [Latin jurisdictio, from juris, genitive of jus law + dictio act of saying, from dicere to say] 1 : the power, right, or authority to interpret, apply, and declare the law (as by rendering a decision) [to be removed to the State having of the crime "U.S. Constitution art. IV"] [a court of competent ] see also situs International Shoe Co. v. Washington in the Important Cases section compare venue NOTE: Jurisdiction determines which court system should properly adjudicate a case. Questions of jurisdiction also arise regarding quasi-judicial bodies (as administrative agencies) in their decision-making capacities. ancillary jurisdiction : jurisdiction giving a court the power to adjudicate claims (as counterclaims and cross-claims) because they arise from a cause of action over which the court has original jurisdiction ;specif : supplemental jurisdiction acquired by a federal court allowing it to adjudicate claims that are based on state law but that form part of a case...
Displaced from land, in consequence of the com-pulsory acquisition
Displaced from land, in consequence of the com-pulsory acquisition, A person is displaced from land in consequence of the compulsory acquisition of his interest if, and only if, he gives up possession (1) on being required to do so by the acquiring authority, (2) on completion of the acquisition, or (3) where the acquiring authority permits him to remain in possession of the land under a tenancy or licence of a kind not making him a tenant as defined in the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1986 (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England (2), para 399, p. 217....
Foreign Jurisdiction Acts (English)
Foreign Jurisdiction Acts (English): 6 & 7 Vict. c. 94; 28 & 29 Vict. c. 116; 29 & 30 Vict. c. 87; 38 & 39 Vict. c. 85; and 41 & 42 Vict. C. 67; consolidated by the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 37) (extended by the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1913 [3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 16)], which regulates the exercise by the Crown of the powers and jurisdiction acquired by it (whether by treaty, grant, usage, sufferance, or otherwise) in countries out of the dominions f the British Crown.A decree by a foreign court over a matter outside its jurisdiction has no effect, Lecouturier v. Rey, 1910 AC 262....
clean-up doctrine
clean-up doctrine : a doctrine of jurisdiction that allows a court of chancery which has acquired jurisdiction in a case to decide both equitable and legal questions provided that the legal questions are incidental to the equitable ones ...
Acquired possession
Acquired possession, The words 'acquired possession' or 'keeping' in clause (b) of s. 135(1) are not to be restricted to 'possession' or 'keeping'acquired as an owner or a purchaser of the goods. the expression 'acquired possession' is of very wide amplitude and will certainly include theacquisition of possession by a person in a capacity other than as owner or purchaser. [Customs Act, 1962, s. 135(1)(b)], State of Maharashtra v. Natwarlal Damodaradas Soni, AIR 1980 SC 593: (1980) 2 SCR 340....
Acquired territories
Acquired territories, 'acquired territories' mean so much of the territories comprised in the Indo-Pakistan agreements and referred to in the First Schedule as are demarcated for the purpose of being acquired by India in pursuance of the said agreements. [Acquired Territories (Merger) Act, (64 of 1960), s. 2(a)]...
Acquisition, acquire
Acquisition, acquire, acquisition is the act by which a person acquires property in a thing. 'Acquire' is to become the owner of the property. One can, therefore, acquire a property either by voluntary or involuntary transfer, Devi Das Gopal Krishnan v. State of Punjab, AIR 1967 SC 1895 (1904): (1967) 3 SCR 557. [Punjab General Sales Tax Act, (46 of 1948), s. 2 (FF)]...
Acquired
Acquired, the expression 'acquired' should be taken to be a reference to 'acquisition' as understood in Public International Law. If there were any public notification, assertion or declaration by which the Government of this country had declared a territory as part and parcel of the territory of India, the Courts would be bound to recognise an 'acquisition' as having taken place, with the consequence that that territory would be part of the territory of the Union within Art. 1(3)(c), N. Masthan Sahib v. Chief Commr., AIR 1963 SC 533 (538). [Constitution of India, Art. 1(3)(c)]Acquired, includes vesting of property in govern-ment by statutory process. But unless such statutory acquisition of a part of the mortgaged property by Government is in the character of a mortgage money even proportionately, State of Kerala v. Koliyat Estates, (1999) 8 SCC 419....
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