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Approval and Acceptance, -- Expression 'approval' presupposes an existing order. 'Acceptance' means communicated acceptance. A distinction exists between the expressions 'approval' and 'acceptance', Ashok Kumar Sahu v. Union of India, AIR 2006 SC 2879. [All India Services Act, 1951, s. 3]...
Approved schools
Approved schools. These schools are schools intended for the education and training of persons to be sent there in pursuance of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (see s. 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 (s. 80). The Secretary of State may classify approved schools as he 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 sent there in pursuance of the Act (s. 81). The expression 'approved school' was first used in the Children and Young Persons Act, 1932, which was declared to apply in relation to a school which at the commencement of this Act is a certified reformatory school or a certified indust...
Sale or return
Sale or return. By s. 18, Rule 4, of the Sale of Goods Act, 1893, supra:-When goods are delivered to the buyer on approval or 'on sale or return' or other similar terms [e.g., on trial: Elphick v. Barnes, (1880) 5 CPD 326] the property therein passes to the buyer:-(a) When he signifies his approval or acceptance to the seller or does any other act adopting the trans-action:As to the meaning of adopting the transaction, see London Jewellers Ltd. v. Atten-borough, (1934) 2 KB 206.(b) If he does not signify his approval or acceptance to the seller but retains the goods without giving notice of rejection, then, if a time has been fixed for the return of the goods, on the expiration of such time, and, if no time has been fixed, on the expiration of a reasonable time. what is a reasonable time is a question of fact....
Approval
Approval, in the context of an administrative act, the word 'approval' does not mean anything more than either confirming, ratifying, assenting, sanctioning or consenting, Vijayadevi Narulkishore Bhastia v. Land Accuisition Officer, (2003) 5 SCC 83 (87). [Land Accuisition Act, 1894, s. 11(1)]Approval, does not mean anything more than either conferring, ratifying assenting, sanctioning or consenting. This is only an administrative power which limits the jurisdiction of the authority to apply its mind to see whether the proposed award is acceptable to the government or not, Vijayadevi Navalkishore Bhartia v. Land Acquisition Officer, (2003) 5 SCC 83....
Ratification
Ratification, confirmation. 'A contract of agency may also be created by ratification. Where A. purports to act as agent for B., either having no authority at all or having no authority to do that particular act, the subsequent adoption by B. of A.'s act has the same legal consequences as if B. had originallyauthorised the act. But there can be no ratification unless A purported to act as agent, and to act for B.; and in such a case B alone can ratify. Nor can there be any binding ratification of any agreement which was originally void' (Odgers on the Common Law), or where the principal was not in existence at the time of the act, either in fact or in the contemplation of law as in the case of persons such as trustees in bankruptcy or personal repre-sentatives who acquire title by relation, Kelner v. Baxter, LR 2 CP 174; and see also NOTICE TO QUIT. Omnis ratihabitio retrotrahitur et mandato 'quiparatur (Co. Litt. 207 a). As to the ratification of contracts by infants, see the Infants ...
Approve
Approve, 'Approve' means to have or express a favourable opinion of, to accept as satisfactory, State (Anti-Corruption Branch) v. R.C. Anand, (2004) 4 SCC 615 (620): AIR 2004 SC 3613.--to augment a thing to the utmost, 2 Inst. 474....
Ratify
Ratify, means to approve and accept formally. It means to conform, by expressing consent, approval or formal santion, State (Anti-Corruption Branch) Government of NCT of Delhi v. Dr. R.C. Anand, (2004) 4 SCC 615....
acceptance
acceptance the written approval of the buyer's offer by the seller. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
Acceptance
Acceptance, the taking and receiving of anything in good part, and as it were a tacit agreement to a preceding act, which might have been defeated or avoided if such acceptance had not been made, Jac. Law Dict.The assenting to an offer: it is by the acceptance, whether express or implied, of an offer that all contracts are made. See CONTRACT, AGREEMENT.Acceptance of a bill of exchange is defined by the (English) Bills of Exchange Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. C. 61), s. 17, as 'the signification by the drawee of his assent to the order of the drawer.' It must be written on the bill, and signed by the drawee, whose mere signature is sufficient to charge him: and it must not express that the drawee will perform his promise by any other means than the payment of money, Ib. See BILL OF EXCHANGE.Means communicated acceptance, Ashok Kumar Sahu v. Union of India, (2006) 6 SCC 704....
approval notice
approval notice A U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) immigration form, Notice of Action Form I-797, that says that USCIS has approved a petition, or request for extension of stay or change of status. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
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