Affirmation - Law Dictionary Search Results
Covenant
Covenants are inherent that tend to the support of the lan or thing granted,or ae collateral to it; affirmative, or negative; executed, or that which is alreadyd one; executory, or that which is to be done. Shep.
Assent
Assent, the word 'assent' is used purposefully indicating affirmative action of the proposal made by the State for having law repugnant to the earlier law made by
Confessing error
Confessing error, the affirmative plea to an assignment of error.
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Condition
and RENTCHARGES. Condition inherent, such as descends to the heir with the land granted, etc. Conditions are, likewise, affirmative, which consist of doing an act; negative, which consist of not doing an act; restrictive, for not doing
Comity of Nations
is contrary to its known policy or prejudicial to its interests. In the silence of any positive rule affirming or denying or restrain-ing the operation of foreign laws, courts of justice presume the tacit adoption of them
Charitable purpose
1961 Act, this court in Addl. C.I.T. v. Surat Art Silk Cloth Manufacturers Association, (1980) 121 ITR 1 affirmed that the aforesaid test of primary or dominant purpose of a trust or institution still holds good, that
Burden of proof
of evidence is, that the point in issue is to be proved by the party who asserts the affirmative, according to the civil law maxims, Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, nonqui negat; Actori incumbit onus probandi; and
Begin, right to
See RIGHT TO BEGIN. This right rests with the party on whom is the onus of proving the affirmative. See Best on Evidence, sect. 637.
Bar, plea in
a defence resorted to when there was no defect apparent on the face of the plaintiff's bill, alleging affirmative matter, and reducing the case to a particular point, seeking to displace the plaintiff's equity. See now DEFENCE.
Attempt
case. 'Attempt' defies a precise and exact definition. Broadly speaking, all crimes which consist of the commission of affirmative acts are preceded by some covert or overt conduct which may be divided into three stages. The first
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