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Tenure

Tenure, cannot be equated with 'terms and con-ditions of services' or payment of gravity or pension. Tenure when followed by words of office, means term of office, Punjab University v. Khalsa College, Amritsar, AIR 1971 P&H...

Intoxicating liquor

Intoxicating liquor, the word 'intoxicating liquor' is not confined to potable liquor alone but would include all liquor which contain alcohol. Liquor should not only cover alcoholic liquor which is generally used for beverage purposes wand...

Condition

Condition. An event upon which a right under contract or to property may arise, become altered, or cease. Condition has been used in connection with personal obligations to distinguish one kind of obligation from another in...

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Innkeeper

Innkeeper, means a person who, for compensation, keeps open a public house for the lodging and entertainment of travellers. A keeper of a boarding house is usually not considered an innkeeper, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.,...

Abstract of title

Abstract of title. A concise statement, usually prepared for a mortgagee or purchaser of real property, summarising the history of a piece of land including all conveyances interests, lines & encumbrances that reflect title to property,...

Act of God

Act of God, a direct, violent, sudden, and irresistible act of nature, which could not, by any reasonable care, have been foreseen or resisted, see Nugent v. Smith, (1876) 1 CPD 423. The general rule is...

Attendant term

Attendant term. Terms for years in real property are created for many purposes, e.g., to furnish money for the payment of debts, to secure rent charges or jointures, to raise portions for younger children, daughters, etc....

Audit

Audit, an examining of accounts. An audit may be either detailed or administrative, and is usually both. A detailed audit is a comparison of vouchers with entries of payment, in order that the party whose accounts...

Award

Award [the primitive sense of ward is shown in the It. Guardare, Fr. regarder, to look. Hence, Prov. Fr. eswarder (answering in form to award), to inspect goods, and, incidentally, to pronounce them good and marketable;...

Bailment

Bailment [fr. bailler, Fr., to deliver], a compendious expression to signify a contract resulting from delivery; perhaps best defined as a 'delivery of a thing in trust for some special object or person, and upon a...

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