Avoidance - Law Dictionary Search Results
Promissory estoppel
promisee, and which does induce such action or forbearance, and such promise is binding if injustice can be avoided only by enforcement of promise, Black's Law Dictionary; Ashok Kumar Maheshwari v. State of Uttar Pradesh, (1998) 2
Interlineation
insertion of any matter in a writ-ten instrument after it is engrossed or executed. A deed may be avoided by interlineation, unless a memorandum be made thereof at the time of the execution or attestation. If there
Sanitation
its ordinary meaning in relation to con-servancy and drainage and the like with reference to the necessity of avoiding dirt and disease and cannot be given such a wide meaning as to include control or regulation of
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Privy
without partiality through affection, love, need, doubt or dread. (3) To keep the sovereign's counsel secret. (4) To avoid corruption. (5) To help and strengthen the execution of what shall be resolved. (6) To withstand all persons
Adequate consideration
excludes mere love and affection. They may be good consideration to support a contract; but adequate consideration to avoid tax is quite a different thing. To insist on the other meaning is really to say that consideration
Protestando
Protestando, a word made use of to avoid double pleading in actions; it prevented the party that made it from being concluded, by the plea he
Qude jus
right to a judgment, before its execution, to make sure that the judgment was not collusively made to avoid the mortmain statute, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1253.
Railway
by s. 6 of the (English) Regulation of Railways Act, 1889. Travelling without fare and with intent to avoid payment is punishable by fine up to 40s. or in the case of a second conviction either by
Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845
general provisions as to the construction and management of railways, and were passed for the purposes of (1) avoiding the necessity of repeating such provisions in the special Acts by which each railway company is incorporated; and
Resident in India
the Act resulting in its object being defeated. A construction which leads to such a result must be avoided. The expression 'resident in India' is clearly used in the sense 'resident of India', Shanti Prasad Jain v.
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