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tax shelter

tax shelter : an entity (as a partnership) or investment plan or arrangement whose principal purpose is the avoidance or evasion of income tax ;also : an interest offered or purchased on the premise that it will

willful blindness

house) despite suspicion or an awareness of the high probability of its existence NOTE: Willful blindness involves conscious avoidance of the truth and gives rise to an inference of knowledge of the crime in question.

Absence

have several connotations. It is not necessarily limited to physical absence. Indifferent or obstructionist attitude of person or avoidance can also amount to absence, Pugazhendran, President, Brammapuram Village Panchayat v. B.G. Balu, AIR 2005 Mad 370. Absence,

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Assise of darrein presentment

he claims, had presented a clerk to a benefice who was duly instituted, and afterwards, upon the next avoidance, a stranger presents a clerk, thus disturbing the right of the lawful patron; upon this, the patron issued

Bar, plea in

in bar were consequently divided into (1) pleas by way of traverse, and (2) pleas by confession and avoidance. In Equity, a plea in bar was a defence resorted to when there was no defect apparent on

demurrer

its truth but also asserts that it is not sufficient as a cause of action compare confession and avoidance NOTE: Demurrers are no longer used in federal civil or criminal procedure but are still used in some

Debenture

in manner prescribed by the Act, within 21 days from the date of execution of the charge. The avoidance will be without prejudice to the company's obligation to repay the money secured by the charge and that

Primiti'

presented to the gods by the ancients; also, the profits of a living during the first year after avoidance, formerly taken by the Crown, Steph. Com., 7th ed, i. 199; ii. 532.

Theatre

be acted contrary to the disallowance, under pain (s. 15) of the penalty not exceeding 50l. and absolute avoidance of the licence of the theatre. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Public Entertainment.' A picture house is not a

Equity of redemption

according to the date of registration under the L.C. Act, 1925, or failing such registration or subject to avoidance as against purchasers for value if unregistered, according to the date of notice to the trustee or trustees

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