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As far as possible, these words are not prohibitory in nature, they rather connote a discretion vested in the prescribed authority which can exercise that discretion at the time of carving the surplus area from out of the total holding of a person, Rajendra Singh v. State of Uttar Pradesh, (1998) 7 SCC 654 (658). [U.P. Imposition of ceiling on land Holdings Act, 1960 (1 of 1961)]...
As far as possible occurring in letters patent
As far as possible occurring in letters patent, are directly and consequently a rule framed by High Court thereunder if inconsistent with the provision of CPC, would prevail over the latter, Iridium India Telecom Ltd. v. Motorola Inc, (2005) 2 SCC 145....
Circuits
Circuits (seven eight formerly), certain divisions of England and Wales, appointed for the judges to go formerly twice a year, in the respective vacations after Hilary and Trinity terms, but more recently oftener, and at no precisely fixed periods, to administer justice in the several counties. Two judges, until 1884, attended at each circuit town, when by a new scheme set on foot by the 'Circuits Order' of that year it was arranged that at the majority of the circuit towns one judge only should attend, with the power, however, under Rule 9 of the Order, of requesting one of the judges in London to proceed to any place on circuit in his aid 'in order to enable the judges, as far as possible, to leve no cause untried at any place on any circuit.' The following were the circuits as altered by Order in Council made pursuant to 26 & 27 Vict. c. 122, viz.: (1) Northern; (2) Home; (3) Western; (4) Oxford; (5) Midland; (6) Norfolk; (7) North Wales; and South Wales.By the (English) Judicature ...
Mainly
Mainly, 'mainly' should be interpreted as 'solely'. 'Solely' means 'exclusively' while 'mainly' means 'substantially', but not in any case 'wholly' or 'solely'. Himachal Road Transport Corporation v. M/s. Bhanno Mull, AIR 1992 HP 37 (45). [Himachal Pradesh Urban Rent Control Act, (23 of 1971), s. 2(d)(i)]The word 'mainly', according to the ordinary plain meaning, means substantially, principally, chiefly, as far as practicable' or so far as possible, Swaran Lata v. Union of India, (1979) 3 SCC 165 (178): (1979) 2 SCR 953....
Ballot
Ballot [fr. balla, Ital.; balle, Fr.], a little ball or ticket used in giving votes.Means a small ball or ticket used for indicating a vote; the system of choosing persons for office by marking a paper or by drawing papers with names on them from a receptacle; the formal record of a person's vote, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 138.Means a system of voting involving secret votes, Monsanto PLC v. TGWU, (1987) 1 All ER 358; Post Office v. UCW, (1990) 3 All ER 199.Means small ball, ticket or paper used in secret voting, Oxford Concise Dictionary, p. 89.Means a ticket, paper, etc., by which a vote is registered, Webster Dictionary of Law, p. 113.Means drawing of lots used in Parliament to determine the precedence among members desiring a share of Parliamentary time available for certain kinds of business, Parliamentary Dictionary, L.A. Abraham and S.C. Hawtrey, (1956), p. 21.Ballot, in House of Commons ballots are held to allot the limited available in Parliament to private members, Pa...
Marriage settlement
Marriage settlement, an arrangement made before marriage, and in consideration of it (the highest consideration known to the law), whereby real or personal property is settled for the benefit of the husband and wife and the issue of the marriage. There is an express saving for such a settlement in s. 19 of the (English) Married Women's Property Act, 1882, and see the (English) Married Women's Property Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 1), invalidating a settlement made by a female infant unless confirmed after attaining 21, but without prejudice to settlements under the Infants Settlement Act, 1855 (see post, MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY).Although the policy of the land legislation of 1924 was to assimilate the law of real property to that of personalty as far as possible, marriage settlements of land (not being effected by way of trust for sale), and if providing for infant or for a succession of interests in land or charging land (but in this case subject to the (English) Law of Property Amendment...
Strict settlement
Strict settlement, a settlement of land, the object of which was, usually, to keep the estates as far as possible in the male line, the eldest son taking in fee or in tail with successive limitations in tail to the exclusion of the younger children, who are pro-vided for by means of portions charged on the property. The limitations vary according to the circumstances of each particular case, but the following may be taken as usual limitations in the case of an ordinary settlement on marriage before 1926: To the use of the husband for life, remainder, subject to a jointure rent-charge to the wife and a term for raising portions for younger children, to the first and other sons in tail-male, remainder to the first and other sons in tail general, remainder to the daughters as tenants in common in tail with cross remainders between them, remainder to the husband in fee. Where the estate also comprised copyholds and leaseholds, these were conveyed to trustees upon trusts to correspond with ...
Catboat
A small sailboat with a single mast placed as far forward as possible carring a sail extended by a gaff and long boom See Illustration in Appendix...
So far as may be
So far as may be, the expression 'so far as may be' has always been construed to mean that those provisions may be generally followed to the extent possible, Dr. Partap Singh v. Director of Enforcement, AIR 1985 SC 989 (993): (1985) 3 SCC 72: (1985) 3 SCR 969....
Notice
Notice, the making something known to a person of which he was or might be ignorant. Notice is either (1) statutory; (2) actual, which brings the knowledge of a fact directly home to the party; or (3) constructive or implied, which is no more than evidence of facts which raise such a strong presumption of notice that equity will not allow the presumption to be rebutted. [S. 154, I.P.C. and Art. 61(2)(a) const. 56 Indian Evidence Act]Constructive notice may be subdivided into: (a) where the facts of which actual evidence is supplied give rise to a further enquiry which a man exercising ordinary caution would make equity has added constructive notice of the facts, which that inquiry would have elicited; and (b) where there has been a designed abstinence from inquiry for the very purpose of avoiding notice. See CONSTRUCTIVE NOTICE.A purchaser with notice may protect himself by purchasing the title of another bona fide purchaser for a valuable consideration without notice; for, otherwise, ...
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