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East India Company
as a right to carry on exclusively. By the middle of the eighteenth century, however, the company's political affairs had become of far more importance than their commerce. In 1858, by 21 & 22 Vict. c. 106,
Inspectorship, Deed of
creditors, appointing one or more person or persons to inspect and oversee the winding up of such insolvent affairs on behalf of the creditors. See COMPOSITION; and the repealed (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1869 (32 & 33 Vict.
Happenstances
as circumstances changed and moulded by time. 'The accident of time has cheated him even as in human affairs generally, be it individual or collective, fortune ebbs and flows, influenced critically by happenstances of time and circumstances
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Herald
Heralds were anciently called Dukes at Arms, probably from the Latin ducere ad arma; because the conducting of affairs concerning peace and war devolved upon them, their office being to carry messages to the enemy, and to
Home Office
Home Office, the department of state (in Whitehall) through which the sovereign administers most of the internal affairs of the kingdom, especially the police and communications with the judicial functionaries, and under the general administra-tion of
House of Commons
Ch 57. The House of Commons acting collectively in a matter falling within the ambit of its domestic affairs is privileged, R. v. Graham Campbell, Ex p. Herbert, (1935) 1 KB 594.
Imbeciles
mental defectiveness not amounting to idiocy, yet so pronounced that they are incapable of managing themselves or their affairs, or, in the case of children, of being taught to do so' [(Englihs) Mental Deficiency Act, 1927, s.
Immiscere
mix or mingle with; to meddle with. This term took on the figurative sense of meddling in another's affairs, for which a person could be prosecuted, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 752.
In addition and without prejudice to any powers
is of the opinion that it is just and expedient to do so, Superintendent and Remembrancer of Legal Affairs v. Satyen Bhowmick, AIR 1981 SC 917: (1981) 2 SCC 109: (1981) 2 SCR 661.
Inspector
investigation and inspection by government and other public bodies. As to Board of Trade inspectors to investigate the affairs of a company, see (English) Companies Act, 1929, s. 135; and inspectors appointed by the company itself by
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