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Universal agent

Universal agent, one who is appointed to do all the acts which the principal can personally do and which he may lawfully delegate the power to another to do. Such an universal agency

Parliament

Commons. The Power of Parliament is transcendent and its Acts bind every subject; no authority other than Parliament can create, amend or abrogate a statute, Office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth Wilding and Philip

Will, Estate at

but is liable for wilful waste. We have seen that either party may determine this estate. The lessor can do so by an express declaration that the lessee shall hold no longer, which should either be made on

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Right to sue

picture do not bind the representatives of the promisor, nor do they create in them a right that can survive the death of the promisor, Phool Rani v. Naubat Rai Ahluwalia, AIR 1973 SC 2110: (1973) 1

Attempt to commit an offence

in part-execution of a criminal design, amounting to more than mere preparation. An attempt to commit an offence can be said to being when the preparations are complete and the culprit commences to do something with the

New trial

if it be necessary, in order to do justice between the parties; but the discovery of witnesses who can contradict those produced on the former trial seems to be no ground for a new trial, nor will

Sale price

The purchaser has no liability to pay tax. There is no provision in the Act from which it can be gathered that the Act imposes any liability on the purchaser to pay the tax imposed on the

Wages

Wages, if the remuneration is to be paid daily or weekly, it can be called wages. But when it is monthly remuneration payable on the last day of the month or

Defence

show that the facts alleged by the plaintiff do not disclose any cause of action to which effect can be given by the Court; see R.S.C., Ord. XXV., sub-stituted for the old 'demurrer.' See STATEMENT OF DEFENCE

Rex non potest peccare

Rex non potest peccare (2 Rol. Rep. 204), the king can do no wrong

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