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Home Dictionary Name: availsAvailable jurisdiction
Available jurisdiction, where more courts than one have jurisdiction over a subject-matter, they are called courts of available or natural jurisdiction, Modi Entertainment Network v. W.S.G. Cricket Pvt. Ltd., (2003) 4 SCC 341 (351). (Civil PC 1908, s. 16, 20)...
Avail
Avail [fr. valoir, Fr.; valere, Lat., to be worth], profit of land...
Avail of marriage
Avail of marriage [fr. valor maritagii, Lat.], the right of marriage, which the lord or guardian in chivalry had of disposing of his infant ward in matrimony. A guardian in socage had also the same right, but not attended with the same advantage, 2 Bl. Com. 70 and 89....
Avails
Avails, profits or proceeds....
Double avail of marriage
Double avail of marriage, the double of the value of the vassal's wife's tocher, formerly due to the superior, when the vassal refused a wife equal to him and offered by the superior; but this was modified to three years' rent of the vassal's free estate, Old Scots Law....
Consumer
Consumer, 'consumer' would include 'any person who consumes electrical energy supplied by a person who generates electrical energy for his own consumption', Jiyajee Rao Cotton Mills Ltd. v. State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1963 SC 414: (1962) Supp 1 SCR 282.The definition of the word 'consumer' shows that it would include a person who consumes energy generated by himself. The proposition that in the matter of the levy of electricity tax the Court should differentiate between cases wherein the energy consumed has been generated by someone other than the consumer and those wherein such energy has been generated by the consumer himself cannot, therefore, be countenanced, State of Mysore v. West Coast Papers Mills Ltd., (1975) 3 SCC 448: AIR 1975 SC 5: (1975) 2 SCR 127.The word 'consumer' is a comprehensive expression. It extends from a person who buys any commodity to consume either as eatable or otherwise from a shop, business house, corporation, store, fair price shop to use of private or p...
Service
Service [fr. servitium, Lat.], that duty which a tenant, by reason of his estate, owes to his lord. There are many divisions of this duty in our ancient law books, as into personal and real, which is either urbane or rustic, free and base, continua land annual, casual and accidental, intrinsic and extrinsic, certain and uncertain, etc. see TENURE.The formal delivery of a writ, summons of other legal process 2. The formal delivery of some other legal notice such as pleading, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1372.The formal mode of bringing a writ or other process, or a notice in a suit, to the knowledge of the person affected by it.The service of writs of summons is regulated by (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. IX., which by r. 1 dispenses wit service, when (as is usual) the defendant, by his solicitor, agrees to accept service, and enters an appearance. By r. 2, service, when required, must be personal, unless an order for 'substituted service, or the substitution of notice for service,...
Quod in minori valet valebit in majori, et quod in majori non valet nec valebit in minori
Quod in minori valet valebit in majori, et quod in majori non valet nec valebit in minori (Co. Litt. 260a), what avails in the lesser will avail in the greater; and what does not avail in the greater will not avail in the lesser....
copyright
copyright : a person's exclusive right to reproduce, publish, or sell his or her original work of authorship (as a literary, musical, dramatic, artistic, or architectural work) see also common-law copyright, fair use at use, infringe intellectual property at property, international copyright, original, public domain compare patent, trademark NOTE: Copyrights are governed by the Copyright Act of 1976 contained in title 17 of the U.S. Code. The Act protects published or unpublished works that are fixed in a tangible medium of expression from which they can be perceived. The Act does not protect matters such as an idea, process, system, or discovery. Protection under the Act extends for the life of the creator of the work plus fifty years after his or her death. For works created before January 1, 1978, but not copyrighted or in the public domain, the copyright starts on January 1, 1978, and extends for the same period as for other works, but in any case will not expire before Decembe...
exhaust
exhaust : to use up or consume entirely: as a : to try all of (available remedies) [the applicant has ed the remedies available in the court of the State "U.S. Code"] b : to bring (a claim) through all available prior levels of review [each of his claims would now be ed "W. R. LaFave and J. H. Israel"] ...
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