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Belong, the expression 'belong' has been defined as follows in the Oxford English Dictionary, 'To be the property or rightful possession of'.Mere possession, or joint possession, unaccompanied by the right to, or ownership of property would therefore not bring the property within the definition of 'net wealth' for it would not then be an aset 'belonging' to the assessee, C.W.T. v. Bishwanath Chatterjee, (1976) 3 SCC 385: AIR 1976 SC 1492 (1494). [Wealth-tax Act, 1957 s. 3 and 2(m)]The word 'belong', necessarily does not reflect title to the property in the sense of ownership. It only denotes connection with property and is a term connecting a person with his possession, Surinder Kaur v. Madan Gopal Singh, AIR 1980 P&H 334....
Belonging to
Belonging to, the expression 'belonging to' and as such indicates something over which a person has dominion and lawful dominion, Mir Osman Ali Khan v. CWT, AIR 1987 SC 522 (525): 1986 Supp SCC 700. [Wealth-tax Act, 1957 (27 of 1957), s. 2(m)]--Though the word 'belonging' no doubt is capable of denoting an absolute title, is nevertheless not confined to connoting that sense. Even possession of an interest less than that of full ownership could be signified by that word. In Webster 'belong to' is explained as meaning inter alia 'to be owned by, be the possession of. The precise sense which the word was meant to convey can therefore be gathered only by reading the document as a whole and adverting to the context in which it occurs, Raja Mohd Amir Ahmad Khan v. Municipal Board of Sitapur, AIR 1965 SC 1923 (1924). [Transfer of Property Act 1882 s. 111(g)]...
Property belonging to the society
Property belonging to the society, the expression 'property belonging to the society' does not give the society a corporate status in the matter of hold-ing and acquiring property; it merely describes the property which vests in the trustees or governing body for the time being, Dharam Dutt v. Union of India, (2004) 1 SCC 712 (745). (Societies Registration Act, 1860, s. 5 Entry 14)...
Belong
To be the property of as Jamaica belongs to Great Britain...
Belonging
That which belongs to one that which pertains to one hence goods or effects...
Party-wall
Party-wall, a term which has been used indifferent senses, may mean (1) a wall of which the two adjoining owners are tenants in common: (2) a wall divided longitudinally into two strips, one belonging to each of the neighbouring owners: (3) a wall which belongs entirely to one of the adjoining owners, but is subject to an easement or right in the other to have it maintained as a dividing wall between the two tenements: (4) a wall divided longitudinally into two moieties, each moiety being subject to a cross easement in favour of the owner of the other moiety, Watson v. Gray, (1880) 14 Ch D 192.The common use of a wall separating adjoining lands of different owners is prima facie evidence that the wall and the land on which it stands belongs to the owners of those adjoining lands, in equal moieties, as tenants in common, or would so belong if tenancy in undivided shares in a legal estate had not been done away with by the land legislation of 1925. Now under s. 38, and 1st Sch., Part 5, ...
Cock oven plant
Cock oven plant, 'Coke oven plant' means the plant and equipment with which the manufacture of hard coke has been or is being, carried on, and includes-(i) all lands, building, works, machinery and equipment, vehicles, railways, tramways and sidings, belonging to, or in the coke oven plant, (ii) all workshop belonging to the coke oven plant, including buildings, machinery, instruments, stores, equipment of such workshops and the lands on which such workshops stand, (iii) all coke in stock or under production, and other stores, stocks and instruments, belonging to the coke oven plant, (iv) all power stations belonging to the coke oven plant or operated for supplying electricity for the purpose of working the coke oven plant or a number of coke oven plants, (v) all lands, buildings and equipment belonging to the coke oven plant where the washing of coal is carried on, (vi) all other fixed assets, movable or immovable, and current assets belonging to a coke oven plant, whether within its ...
Married women's property
Married women's property, At Common Law, a woman, by marrying, transferred the ownership of all her property, real and personal, present and future, to her husband absolutely, so that he might sell, pay his debts out of, give away, or dispose by will of it as he pleased, with these exceptions and modifications:-1) Her freehold estate became his to manage and take the profits of during the joint lives only. After his death, leaving her surviving, it passed to her absolutely; after her death, leaving him surviving, provided that it was an estate in possession and issue who could in her it had been born during the marriage, it passed to him as 'tenant by the curtesy (q.v.) of England,' during his life, and after his death to her heir-at-law.(2) Her leasehold estate, her personal estate in expectancy, and the debts owing to her and other 'choses in action,' became his absolutely if he did some act to appropriate or reduce them into possession during the marriage, or if he survived her. If ...
Appurtenant
Appurtenant, pertaining or belonging to. See APPENDANT.Appurtenant, when used in connection with leases of properties, has gained wider as well as narrower interpretations through judicial pronouncements, K. Bhagirathi G. Shenoy v. K.P. Ballakuraya, (1999) 4 SCC 135.Appurtenant, belongs to another thing as principal, as hamlet to another village, garden to a home; that which passes as incident to the principal thing, a thing used with and related to or dependent upon another thing more worthy and agreeing in its nature and quality with the thing whereunto it is appedant or appurtenant, that which belongs to something else, an adjunct, an appendage. Law Lexicon of British India; Abbot's Law Dictionary....
Arches, Court of
Arches, Court of [fr. curia de arcubus, Lat.], a court of appeal belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the judge of which is called the Dean of the Arches, because his Court was anciently held in the church of Saint Mary-le-Bow (Sancta Maria de arcubus), so named from the steeple, which is raised upon pillars, built archwise. It was formerly held, as also were the other principal Spiritual Courts, in the hall belonging to the College of Civilians, commonly called Doctors' Commons. It is now held at the Church House, Westminster. Its proper jurisdiction is only over the 13 peculiar parishes belonging to the Archbishop in London, but the office of Dean of the Arches having been for a long time united to that of the Archbishiop's Official Principal, the Dean of the Arches, in right of such added office, receives and determines appeals from the sentences of all Inferior Ecclesiastical Courts within the province. There was formerly an appeal to the king in Chancery, or to a Court of De...
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