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Bare trustee
of the title deeds may accept the conveyance from the trustee or persons deriving title under him. See ACTIVE TRUSTEE.Bare trustee, in relation to a deposit means person holding the deposit on trust for another person who … Bare trustee, A person holding property in trust for another without any beneficial interest in or duty in regard to it except to transfer it to the person entitled. Under the (English) Law of Property
Mandamus
(2) Ordinarily mandamus. Where a plaintiff in an ordinary action is personally interested in the fulfilment of some duty by the defendant he may in certain cases endorse his writ with a claim for a mandamus, either … (1)] Means a command. It differs from the writs of prohibition or certiorari in its demand for some activity on the part of the body or person to whom it is addressed. Mandamus is a command issued
Incorporated Law Society
of Gentlemen Practices in the several Courts of Law and Equity.' It was established in 1739, and was active and prosperous, at least until 1810. Mr. Bryan Home was a member of this Society, and his portrait … was incorporated 'to facilitate the acquisition of legal knowledge, and for better and more conveniently discharging the professional duties of the members of the Society,' under the full title of 'The Society of Attorneys, Solicitors, Proctors, and
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Office
Wazed Mian, (1988) Supp SCC 580 (592): (1988) 2 SCR 370. By 'office' is meant the right and duty to exercise an employment or a position of authority and trust to which certain duties are attached, Shrilekha … Pradesh, AIR 1971 MP 88 (91). [M.P. Panchayats Act, (7 of 1962), ss. 20, 21, 22] Shifting of activities from office purpose to godown purpose is a change of use of premises, Goa Urban Coop. Bank v.
abuse
abuse 3 : a verbal attack (as on a police officer in the performance of his or her duty) ;also : the crime of making such an attack … purposely or through negligence or neglect and often on a regular basis b : to engage in sexual activity with (a child under an age specified by statute) 3 : to attack harshly with words [ a
Company
was eroded by the emergence of new social value which recognised the role of the State as an active participant in the social and economic life of the citizen in order to bring about general welfare and … shaped this new corporate philosophy. A company, according to the new socio-economic thinking, is a social institution having duties and responsibilities towards the community in which it functions, National Textile Workers' Union v. P.R. Ramakrishnan, (1983) 1
Uses
use. In general, however, there was but little difference in the terms 'use' and trust. See OFFICIAL USE; ACTIVE USE; PASSIVE TRUST, and infra. Uses may be classified as:- I. Present or executed; distributable into:- (a) Those … land, and equity, therefore, compels the trustee, who retains the legal estate notwithstanding the statute, to perform the duty confided in him. And the trustee had the legal estate (if properly invested in him) in the following
Law and order and public order
of West Bengal, (1972) 2 SCC 672: AIR 1972 SC 2259 (2260). The test determining whether a particular activity affects law and order or whether it impinges upon public order is: Doses it interfere with the current … building was creating panic in the minds of the police personnel of the State from performing their legitimate duties in the maintenance of law and order in the State. Such acts are connected with 'public order', Babul
Act of God
see Nugent v. Smith, (1876) 1 CPD 423. The general rule is that where the law creates a duty and the party is disabled from performing it, without any default of his own, by the act of … Divisional Controller, KSRTC v. Mahadeva Shetty, (2003) 7 SCC 197. Means all natural agencies as opposed to human activities, constitute acts of God, and not merely those which attain an extraordinary degree of violence or are very
Yarn
4 SCC 315 (318). Yarn is an excisable commodity normally and but for the special procedure and notification, duty thereon is leviable at the point of production and clearance for captive consumption, Collector of Central Excise v. … the weft which means yarn woven across the width of the fabric through the lengthwise yarn. Thus the activity of the weaving involves passing of the weft through the warp, Ess Dee Carpet Enterprises v. Union of
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