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Arbitration

determination of a matter in dispute by the judgment of one or more persons, called arbitrators, who in case of difference usually call in an 'umpire' to decide between them. Means a method of dispute resolution involving

Competent authority

Competent authority, means (i) the speaker in the case of the House of the people or the legislative Assembly of a State or a Union Territory having

Intoxicating liquor

for the time being in force, be legally sold without an excise licence'; two licences are in every case required (except where the sale is in theatres or on packet-boats, railway restaurant cars, or canteens, or of

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Marriage

of nullity, that banns should be published according to the rubric, or a license obtained, and in either case that the marriage should be solemnised in church; and as to minors, that the father, mother, or guardian

Natural justice

natural justice which are not embodied rules. What particular rule of natural justice should apply to a given case must depend to a great extent on the facts and circumstances of that case, the frame-work of the

Water and watercourse

and Angell on Watercourse. 'Water' does not include the land on which it stands, unless perhaps in the case of salt pits or springs, where the interest of each owner is measured by builleries, ballaries or buckets

Trust

Common or Statutory Law in the limitations of legal estate. Before 1926 an equitable entail would in the case of an executory document or a bequest or devise by will pass without the words 'heirs of the

Oath

the form and manner following:- The person taking the oath shall hold as New Testament, or, in the case of a Jew, the Old Testament, in his uplifted hand, and shall say or repeat after the officer

Owner

or has control over handling, any hazardous substance at the time of accident and includes,-- (i) in the case, of a firm, any of its partners; (ii) in the case of an association, any of its members;

Discharge

the rule nisi should take nothing, and the suit remain in statu quo. See RULE. In a warrant case instituted otherwise than on a police report, 'discharge' or 'acquittal' of accused are distinct concepts applicable to different

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