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anti-lapse statute : a statute providing that in the event a person who would have received a gift under a will dies before the person who made the will dies then the gift is distributed to the heirs of the person who would have received the gift compare lapse ...
lapse
lapse : a termination or failure due to events, neglect, or time: as a : the failure of a bequest (as because the intended recipient dies before the testator) compare anti-lapse statute b : the termination of an insurance policy because of nonpayment of premiums or nonrenewal vb lapsed laps·ing vi : to terminate, become ineffective, or fail [the bequest lapsed when the son died before the father] [allowed the insurance policy to ] vt : to cause (as a policy) to lapse [the company lapsed the policy] ...
Statute Law Revision Acts
Statute Law Revision Acts. A number of general Acts were passed from the year 1861 to 1927 inclusive, for the purpose of expressly and specifically repealing Acts or parts of Acts which had been either impliedly repealed by subsequent statutes on the ground that leges posteriores priores contrarias abrogant, or which (see the preambles to the various Acts) 'might be regarded as spent, or had by lapse of time or otherwise become unnecessary' from various causes, or had become obsolete, and also partly with the view of clearing the way for two editions of 'Statutes Revised,' that is, statutes in force only, as distinguished from the 'Statutes at Large,' or statutes just as they are passed. In 1890, as explained in an Introductory Note to vol. 4 of the 2nd edition of the Revised Statutes, a Select Committee of the House of Commons considered the subject of statute law revision, and recommended the omission from the Revised Statutes of 'any preambles' [but see that title] 'to an act, or in...
Anti-John law
Anti-John law, means a criminal law statute punishing prostitutes' customers, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 92....
Lapse
Lapse [fr. lapsus, Lat.], error; failing in duty.(1) A benefice is said to lapse when the patron does not exercise the right of presentation within six calendar months (182 days) after the avoidance of the benefice, exclusive of the day of the avoidance. In such case there is a devolution of the rights of patronage from a neglectful patron to the bishop as ordinary, to the metropolitan an superior, and to the sovereign as patron paramount of all the benefices in the realm.(2) A device or legacy is said to lapse when the devisee or legatee dies before the testator. In such case the devise or legacy falls into the residuary real or personal estate, as the case may be. If a residuary devise or bequest lapses, the property falls into the intestate estate of the testator, see Easum v. Appleford, (1840) 5 My&Cr 56; Re Whitrod, (1926) 1 Ch 118. If, however, the devisee or legatee should be a child or other issue of the testator, and should die leaving issue surviving at the testator's death, ...
Anti-manifesto
Anti-manifesto, the declaration of a belligerent, as a reply to the manifesto of the other belligerent, showing that the war, as far as he is concerned, is defensive....
Anti-suit injunction
Anti-suit injunction, is a specie of injunction. When a court restrains a party to a suit/proceeding before it, from instituting or presenting a case in another court including a foreign court, Modi Entertainment Network v. W.S.G. Cricket Pvt. Ltd., (2003) 4 SCC 341....
Frauds, Statute of
Frauds, Statute of, 29 Car. 2, c. 3 (A.D. 1676). This famous statute is said to have been famed by Sir Matthew Hale, Lord Keeper Guilford, and Sir Leoline Jenkins, an eminent civilian. Lord Nottingham used to say of it, that 'every line was worth a subsidy,' and it has been said that at all events the explanation of every line has cost a subsidy, no statute having been the subject of so much litigation. The statute, though it does not apply or have any Act corresponding to it in Scotland, was practically copied by the Irish Parliament in 7 Wm. 3, c. 12, applies generally to the British colonies, and, remarks Mr. Chancellor Kent (2 Com. 494, n. (d), 'carries its influence through the whole body of American juris-prudence, and is in many respects the most comprehensive, salutary, and important legislative regulation on record affecting the security of private rights.'The main object of the statute was to take away the facilities for fraud and the temptation to perjury which arose in verb...
Interpretation of Statute
Interpretation of Statute, it is well-settled that in construing the provisions of statute the Courts should be slow to adopt a construction which tends to make any part of the statute meaningless or ineffective. Thus, an attempt must always be made to reconcile the relevant provisions so as to advance the remedy intended by the Statute, Board of Muslim Wakfs v. Radha Kishan, AIR 1979 SC 289: (1979) 2 SCR 148.Interpretation of Statutes, as a general principle of interpretation, where the words of a statute are plain, precise and unambiguous, the intention of the legislature is to be gathered from the language of the statute itself and no external evidence such as parliamentary debates, reports of the commit-tees of the legislature or even the statement made by the Minister on the introduction of a measure or by the framers of the Act is admissible to construe those words. It is only where a statute is not exhaustive or where its language is ambiguous, uncertain, clouded or susceptible ...
statute of limitations
statute of limitations 1 a : a statute establishing a period of time from the accrual of a cause of action (as upon the occurrence or discovery of an injury) within which a right of action must be exercised compare laches, statute of repose b : a criminal statute establishing the period of time within which an offense can be punished after its commission 2 : a period of time established by a statute of limitations for commencing an action or prosecution 3 : an affirmative defense that the statute of limitations has expired ...
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