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more familiar or renowned than the other of two Antonym of lesser known...
Ramist
A follower of Pierre Rameacute better known as Ramus a celebrated French scholar who was professor of rhetoric and philosophy at Paris in the reign of Henry II and opposed the Aristotelians...
Fealty
Fealty [fr. fidelitas, Lat.; feaulte, Fr.], the special oath of fidelity or mutual bond of obligation between a lord and his tenant; the general oath being the allegiance performed by every subject to his sovereign, but this is better known by its more significant appellation of the oath of allegiance. Although foreign jurists consider fealty and homage as convertible terms, because in some continental countries they are blended so as to form on engagement, yet they are not to be confounded in our country, for they do not imply the same thing, homage being the acknowledgment of tenure, and fealty, the vassal oath of fidelity, being the essential feudal bond, and the animating principle of a feud, without which it could not subsist. Fealty comprehends the following obligations, viz.: (1) Incolume, that the tenant do no bodily harm to his lord; (2) Tutum, that he do no secret damage to him in his house; (3) Honestum, that he damage not his reputation; (4) Utile, that he do no damage to h...
Gage, estates in
Gage, estates in, those held in vadio or pledge. They are of two kinds: (1) vivium vadium, or living pledge, or vifgage; (2) mortuum vadium, or dead pledge, better known as mortgage....
Universalia sunt notoria singularibus
Universalia sunt notoria singularibus, things universal are better known than things particular....
Better
Having good qualities in a greater degree than another as a better man a better physician a better house a better air...
Betterment
Betterment, increasing the value of property. Where the increase is due to the execution of public improvements, some modern Acts provide that the neighbouring owners should bear a special share of the expense. The principle seems to have been applied, under the term 'melioration,' by 19 Car. 2, c. 3, s. 26, when London was being re-built after the Great Fire. For an instance of what might now be considered betterment, see Re South Eastern Railway & L.C.C.'s Contract, (1915) 2 Ch 252.The principle has been adopted by the (English) Town and Country Planning Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 48), s. 21, which, upon or apart from any question of compensation, allows local authorities to claim for betterment. See Re Webster, 51 TLR 201. See also (English) Public Health Act, 1925, s. 31, and (English) Local Government Act, 1929, Sched. I., Part I., and IMPROVEMENT OF TOWNS....
Known sources of income
Known sources of income, the expression 'known sources of income' must have reference to sources known to the prosecution on a thorough investigation of the case. It was not, and it could not be, contended that 'known sources of income' means sources known to the accused. Affairs of the accused are matters specially within the knowledge of the accused; within the meaning of s. 106 of the Evidence Act, C.S.D. Swami v. State, AIR 1960 SC 7: (1960) 1 SCR 461. [Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947, s. 5(3)]The expression 'known sources of incomes' means 'sources known to the prosecution'. So also, the same meaning must be given to the words 'for which the public servant cannot satisfactorily account' occurring in s. 5(1)(e), State of Maharashtra v. Wasudeo Ramchandra Kaidalwar, AIR 1981 SC 1186; (1981) 3 SCC 199: (1981) 3 SCR 675.The expression 'known sources of income' has reference to sources known to the prosecution after thorough investigation of the case. It is not, and cannot be conten...
Better Equity
Better Equity. Where as between rival claimants in a court of equity the court holds that one of them, either on the ground of notice or of priority in time or for some other sufficient reason, is entitled to priority over the other, such claimant is said to have the 'better equity.'...
bettering
changing for the better antonym of worsening...
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