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Collector

s. 4 (6)] Means the Collector having jurisdiction over the area in which the accident occurs. [Public Liability Insurance Act, 1991 (6 of 1991), s. 2 (b)] The expression means the Collector of a district, and includes

Approved schools

thinks best calculated to secure that a person sent to an approved school is sent to the school appropriate to his case. With certain exceptions the managers of an approved school are bound to accept any person … 79(1) and approved by the Secretary of State. They are regulated by ss. 79-83 of that Act. Local authorities may under certain circumstances undertake the purchase, establishment, building, alteration, enlargement, rebuilding or management of an approved school

Pandect', or Digesta

appears by a constitution, both in Greek and Latin, which confirmed the work, and gave to it legal authority, Smith's Dict. of Antiq. The number of writes from whose works extracts were made is thirty-nine. Justinian's plan … be a selection from the jurists, and the other from the Constitutions. The first, the Pandects, was very appropriately intended to con-tain the foundation of the law; it was the first work since the date of the

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proceeding

a substantial right may be immediately appealed [special proceedings created exclusively by statute where a special procedure is appropriate and warranted "Sosebee v. County Line Sch. Dist., 897 S.W.2d 556 (1995)"] summary proceeding : a civil or … bankruptcy laws, that could be adjudicated in a state court, and over which a bankruptcy court has limited authority special proceeding : a proceeding (as for condemnation or disbarment) that may be commenced independently of a pending

Fee

there is an element of quid pro quo between the person who pays the fee and the public authority which imposes it, Collector of Customs v. K. Ganga Setty, AIR 1963 SC 1319: (1963) 2 SCR 277. … charged must be commensurate with the services rendered. The payments collected by way of fees must be specially appropriated for that purpose and must not be merged in the general revenue of the State, Jagannath v. State

Person

kind of bodily appearance, the body of a human being as presented to public view usually with its appropriate coverings and clothing; a living individual unit; a being possessing or forming the subject of personality, Webster's Third … firm, a proprietary concern, or an association of persons or body of individuals, whether incorporated or not, local authority and any agency, office, or branch owned or controlled by such individual, Hindu undivided family, co-operative, association, body,

Void and voidable

is concerned, if he decides to avoid the same and succeeds in avoiding it by taking recourse to appropriate proceeding the transaction becomes void from the very beginning. Another type of void act may be one which … expression 'void' has several facets. One type of void acts, transactions, decrees are those which are wholly without jurisdiction, ab initio void and for avoiding the same, no declaration is necessary, law does not take any notice

In pursuance of

In pursuance of, 'in pursuance of' would mean under the authority of or by virtue of or in the course of carrying out in accordance with the scheme or … a notification do not mean what would be conveyed in exercise of powers conferred by. Thus it may appropriately, in parti-cular case, mean 'conformable to' or in accordance with, Sadaria v. Rajasthan Board of Revenue, 1954 Raj

Gas

the number of British thermal units (gross) produced by the combustion of 1 cubic foot of gas under appropriate conditions; see also Gas Undertakings Act, 1929, 1932, 1934. Consult Michael and Will on Gas and Water. Gas, … (see also (English) Road Traffic Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 50), s. 23), any urban authority may contract with any person for the supply of gas or other means of lighting their district, and

Fire

demised premises by fire, for which reason it is common to insert in each of these covenants an appropriate saving or exception. See also INSURANCE. As to fires caused by sparks, etc., from railway engines, see the … 38), and the Acts therein recited. By s. 90 of the (English) Public Health Amendment Act, 1907, local authorities can agree for the common use of fire engines and appliances; ss. 87-89 of the same Act give

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