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issue

issue 1 pl : proceeds from a source of revenue (as an estate) [rents, s, and profits] 2 : one or more lineal descendants [died without ] compare child, heir 3 a : a vital question or problem [cited a national security ] [raised an of public safety] b : a matter of dispute between two or more parties ;specif : a single material point of fact or law in litigation that is affirmed by one side and denied by the other and that is a subject of the final determination (as by jury) of the proceedings genuine issue : an issue of fact that requires adjudication by trial rather than summary judgment because sufficient evidence exists to support a verdict for the party opposing the motion for summary judgment NOTE: The burden is on the party moving for summary judgment to show that no genuine issue is in dispute. issue of fact : a dispute about a material fact that is raised by pleadings and that must be resolved by a decision under the law in order to become res judicata issue of la...


lis pendens

lis pendens [Latin] 1 : a pending suit 2 : a written notice of a pending suit involving property usually filed in the appropriate office (as a registry of deeds) called also notice of pendency 3 a : the jurisdiction and control of the court over property involved in a pending suit b : a doctrine under which one purchasing an interest in property involved in a pending suit does so subject to the adjudication of the rights of the parties to the suit ...


political question doctrine

political question doctrine : a doctrine under which a court will refrain from adjudicating a question that is more properly resolved by the other branches of government because of its inherently political nature and not because of a lack of jurisdiction ...


Discretion

Discretion, the word 'discretion' connotes necessarily an act of a judicial character, as used with reference to discretion exercised judicially, it implies the absence of a hard and fast rule, and it require an actual exercise of judgment and a consideration of the facts and circumstances with are necessary to make a sound, fair and just determination and a knowledge of the facts upon which discretion may properly operate. When it is said that something it to be done according to the rules of reason and justice and not according to the rules of reason and justice and not according to private opinion; according to law and not honour. It only gives certain latitude liberty accorded by statute or rules, to a judge as distinguished from a ministerial or administrative official, in adjudicating on matters brought before him, Aero Traders Pvt. Ltd. v. Ravinder Kumar Suri, AIR 2005 SC 15.--The word 'discretion' connotes necessarily an act of a judicial character, and, as used with reference ...


Fiat in bankruptcy

Fiat in bankruptcy, the authority of the Lord Chancellor to a commissioner of bankrupts, which authorized him to proceed in the bankruptcy of a trader, mentioned therein. It was abolished by the (English) Bankruptcy Act of 1849 (12 & 13 Vict. c. 106), and a petition for adjudication substituted....


Gratuity

Gratuity, it is a kind of retirement benefit like the provident fund or pension. At one time it was treated as payment gratuitously made by the employer to his employee at his pleasure but as a result of a long series of decisions of industrial tribunals gratuity has now come to be regarded as a legitimate claim which workmen can make and which, in a proper case, can give rise to an industrial dispute. Gratuity paid to workmen is intended to help them after retirement, whether the retirement is the result of the rules superannuation or of physical disability, Indian Hume Pipe Co. Ltd. v. Workmen, AIR 1960 SC 251: (1960) 2 SCR 32.Gratuity is a retiral benefit and can be earned as a matter of right on fulfilling the conditions subject to which it is earned, any rule conferring absolute discretion not testable on reason, justice or fair play must be treated as utterly arbitrary and unreason-able and discarded, Sudhir Chandra Sarkar v. Tata Iron and Steel Co. Ltd., AIR 1984 SC 1064 (1071):...


Income

Income, s. 4 of the Income-tax Act, defines the 'total income' to include all income, profits and gains from whatever source deprived. The definition of 'income' in Shaw Wallace & Co. case, 1932 (59) IA 206, as a periodical monetary return coming in with some sort of regularity, or expected regularity, from definite sources must be read with reference to the peculiar facts of that case. Money received 'under consequential loss policies, were income within the meaning of s. 2(6c) of the Income Tax Act, Raghuvanshi Mills Ltd. v. Commissioner of Income Tax, AIR 1953 SC 4: (1953) SCR 177.Income connotes a periodical monetary return 'coming in' with some sort of regularity, or expected regularity from definite sources, E.D. Sassoon and Co. Ltd. v. Commissioner of Income Tax, AIR 1954 SC 470: (1955) 1 SCR 313.The expression 'income' in entry 54 of List I of the Seventh Schedule to the Government of India Act, 1935, and the corresponding entry 82 of List 1 of the Seventh Schedule to the Const...


Rent

Rent [fr. reditus Lat.], a certain profit issuing yearly out of lands and tenements corporeal; it may be regarded as of a two fold nature--first, as some-thing issuing out of the land, as a compensation for the possession during the term; and secondly, as an acknowledgment made by the tenant to the lord of his fealty or tenure. It must always be a profit, yet there is no necessity that it should be, as it usually is, a sum of money; for spurs, capons, horses, corn, and other matters, may be, and occasionally are, rendered by way of rent; it may also consist in services or manual operations, as to plough so many acres of ground and the like; which services, in the eye of the law, are profits. The profit must be certain, or that which may be reduced to a certainty by either party; it must issue yearly, though it may be reserved every second, third, or fourth year; it must issue out of the thing granted, and not be part of the land or the thing itself.Consideration paid, usu. periodically...


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