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Railway

is punishable by fine up to 40s. or in the case of a second conviction either by a fine not exceeding … Vict. c. 38). As to the reorganisation of the railway system, see the Railway Act, 1921, especially s. 1 and Sch.

Persecution

standards established by the laws of the country concerned. A case in point may be religious intolerance, amounting to persecution, in … 379. Persecution, is most appropriately defined as the sustained or systemic failure of State protection in relation to one of the

Proprietor

or right is so acquired; and (c) In any other case, means the author of the design; and where the property … as respects a village, muhal or land settled on zamindari system owning whether in trust or for his own benefit, such

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Equal pay for equal work

Articles 14 and 16 and may be properly applied to cases of unequal scales of pay based on no classification or … pay for equal work is expressly recognized by all socialist systems of law, e.g., s. 59 of the Hungarian Labour Code,

Regularly kept books of account

'regularly kept'. The rule fixes no precise time and each case must depend upon its own circumstances, CBI v. V.C. Shukla, … that of a broker in real estates. Not only their systems of maintaining books of account will differ but also the

Slavery

liberty of another. It cannot subsist in England. See Sommersett's case, (1771-2) 20 St. Tr. 1; Lofft, 1; Broom's Const. Law, … or servitude, Black's Law Diction-ary, 7th Edn., p. 1393. The system of colonial slavery ws abolished by 3 & 4 Wm.

Estate

time in the land, or land for a time', Walsingbem's case, (1573) 2 plowd 547. Means was 'the immediate reversion to … lost much of their importance since 1925, when a new system of conveyancing was introduced by the Real Property legislation of

Common Law

law are not set down in writing, as is the case with Acts of Parliament; but that it receives its binding … 1 Kent's Com. 447, 468. Common law, is a judge-made system of law, originating in ancient customs, which were clarified, expanded

egularly kept books of account

'regularly kept'. The rule fixes no precise time and each case must depend upon its own circumstances, CBI v. V.C. Shukla, … that of a broker in real estates. Not only their systems of maintaining books of account will differ but also the

Due course of law

course of law, Due course of law in each par-ticular case means such an exercise of the powers by duly constituted … the rules and principles which have been established in our system of jurisprudence for the enforcement and protection of private rights.

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