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principal

one who commits a crime or instigates, encourages, or assists another to commit it esp. when constructively or actually present see also accessory principal in the first degree : a principal under common law who intentionally commits

Shop

Shop, a place where thins are kept for sale, usually in small quantities, to the actual consumers. By (English) Shops Act, 1912, s. 19, 'shop' includes any premises where any 'retail trade or business'

Priority

bound to give effect to prior equitable claims of which he has notice, whether verbal or written, or actual or constructive, Torkington v. Magee, (1902) 2 KB 427. The notice does not, under the rule in Dearle

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Payment, out of

Payment, out of, the words 'payment out of' in its first meaning connotes actual payment, e.g., by taking the money out of the drawer or drawing a cheque on of bank. When

Plenum dominium

combining the right and the corporal possession of property, which possession could not be acquired without both an actual intention to possess, and an actual seisin or entry into the premises, or part of them, in the

Possession follows title

Possession follows title, is a well-recognised one. It means that when a rightful owner is not in actual physical possession, he would, in the eye of the law, be deemed to be in possession. The benefit

Potential

payments on a contract or engagement, already made.' In other words service which is not only extended to actual users but those who are capable of using it are covered in the definition. The clause is thus

Presence

is thus deemed to be presence of the accused. Thus s. 273 contemplates constructive presence. This shows that actual physical presence is not a must. This indicates that the term 'presence', as used in this s., is

Title

and tenements. 1. The lowest and most imperfect degree of title consists in the mere naked possession, or actual occupation of the estate, without any apparent right or any shadow of pretence of right to hold and

Reasonable doubt

to the accused but the reasonable doubt should be a real and substantial one and a 'well founded actual doubt arising out of the evidence existing after consideration of all the evidenced. 'Hence a mere whim or

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