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Cannot, The word 'cannot' emphatically connotes a situation of impasse. In Shorter Oxford Dictionary, 3rd Edn., at page 255, the...

Claim already made ......... cannot be maintained, means any claim already made in the original action cannot be maintained by...

Reason to believe, does not mean a purely subjective satisfaction. The belief must be held in good faith; it cannot...

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Joint-tenancy. This tenancy is created where the same interest in real or personal property is, by the act of the...

Imprisonment, 'imprisonment' shall mean imprisonment of either description as defined in the Indian Penal Code. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10...

Measure of damage, the test which determines the amount of damages to the given. The general rule in English law...

Marriage. Marriage as understood in Christendom is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the...

Malice [fr. malitia, Lat.], a formed design of doing mischief to another, technically called malitia pr'cogitata, or malice prepense or...

Res judicata, a final judgment already decided between the same parties or their privies on the same question by a...

Evacuee, The evacuee cannot take possession of his property. He cannot lease that property. He cannot sell that property without...

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