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Lay corporations

Lay corporations, bodies politic; they are either: (1) Civil, created for temporal purposes; or (2) Eleemosynary, for charitable purposes.

Person

Boilers, (1997) SCC (205) 1. Person, in an Act of Parliament passed after 1st January, 1890, includes 'any body of persons corporate or unincorporate' unless the contrary intention appears, Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 19. A corporation, such

Local authority

includes panchayatiraj institutions, municipalities, a district board, cantonment board, town planning authority or Zila Parishad or any other body or authority, by whatever name called, for the time being invested by law, for rendering essential services or,

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habeas corpus

habeas corpus [Medieval Latin, literally, you should have the body (the opening words of the writ)] : any of several writs originating at common law that are issued

Civil Law

was proposed by Caius Terentelius Horsa (B.C. 460, A.U.C. 293) to appoint a commission to draw up a body of laws; and (in N.C. 462, A.U.C. 301) three commissioners are said to have been chosen by the

Food

2 (v)] The expression 'food' has generally been understood to mean nutritive material absorbed or taken into the body of an organism which serves for purposes of growth, work or repair and for the maintenance of the

Quorum

Quorum (of whom), the number of members of an administrative or judicial body whose presence is necessary for the acts of the body to be valid; e.g., of a County Borough

Tail

will after 1925) will devolve inequity on the person who would have taken realty as heir of the body or as tenant by the curtesy if the Law of Property Act, 1925, had not been passed [s.

University

Ambedkar University Act, 1994 (58 of 1994), s. 2(u)] The term 'university' is usually understood to mean a body incorporated for the purpose of learning with various endowments and privileges, AIR 1993 Del 239 (242). University, institution

Sovereignty

resides within itself, whether residing in a single individual or a number of individuals, or in the whole body of the people. Sovereignty according to its normal legal connotation is the supreme power which govern the body

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