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If from any cause whatsoever in a contract ran as: 'If from any cause whatsoever, the purchase should not be completed and the purchase money paid on the day hereinbefore stipulated, not paid, the purchaser shall pay interest, from that date until the completion of the purchase at the rate of 14 per cent. per annum'. Construing this Lord St. Leonards laid down that the words 'if from any cause whatsoever' are to be read, 'if from any cause whatsoever' than the wilful default of the vendor, Palmerston, Lord v. Turner, 33 LJ Ch 457...
Reasonable cause to believe
Reasonable cause to believe, means if the secretary of state has reasonable cause for the belief in Defence (General) Regulations, 1939, Reg. 18B in the context point simply to the belief of the secretary of state founded on his view of there being reasonable cause for the belief which he entertains and not that there must be an external fact as to reasonable cause capable of being challenged in a court of law, Liversidge v. Anderson, 1942 All 206: (1941) 3 All ER 388 (HC)....
Reasonable cause
Reasonable cause, means a cause which prevents a reasonable man of an ordinary prudence acting under normal circumstances, without negligence or inaction or want of bona fide from furnishing the return in time, Commissioner of Wealth-tax, Patna v. Jagdish Prasad Choudhary, AIR 1996 Pat 58.Means a cause which prevents a reasonable man of a ordinary prudence acting under normal circum-stances, without negligence or inaction or want of bona fide from furnishing the return in time, Commissioner of Wealth-tax, Bihar-I, Patna v. Jagdish Choudhary, Sahebganj, AIR 1996 Pat 58....
Shew cause
Shew cause, to appear (in obedience to a rule of Court calling upon the party to appear and shew cause) and argue that the rule should not be made absolute. rules to shew cause are now, in many cases, abolished by the Supreme Court of Judicature Act. See RULES....
Reasonable cause of action
Reasonable cause of action, means a cause of action with some chances of success when only the allegations in the pleading are considered. But so long as the claim discloses some cause of action or raises some question fit to be decided by a Judge, the mere fact that the case is weak and not likely to succeed is no ground for striking it out, Mohan Rowale v. Damodar Tatyaba alias Dada Sahib, 1994 2 SCC 392....
Criminal cause or matter
Criminal cause or matter, if the cause or matter is one which, if carried to its conclusion, might result in the conviction or the person charged and in a sentence of some punishment, such as imprison-ment or fine, it is a 'criminal cause or matter', A (Ara) v. Chief Constable of Merseyside Police, (2004) 1 WLR 1697 (CA)....
Cause of a like nature
Cause of a like nature, the expression. 'Cause of a like nature' will have to be read ejusdem generis with the expression 'defect of jurisdiction'. So construed the expression 'other cause of a like nature' must be so interpreted as to convey something analogous to the preceding words 'from defect of jurisdiction', Zafar Khan v. Board of Revenue, AIR 1985 SC 39 (47). [Limitation Act (36 of 1963), s. 14]...
concurring cause
concurring cause : concurrent cause at cause ...
Joinder of causes of action
Joinder of causes of action, coupling two or more matters in the same suit or proceeding.Under the (English) C.L.P. Act, 1852, s. 41, causes of action, of whatever kind, provided they were by and against the same parties and in the same rights, might be joined in the same suit; but this did not extend to repelling or ejectment; and where two or more of the causes of action so joined were local, and arose indifferent counties, the venue might be laid in either of such counties, but the court or a judge had power to prevent the trial of different causes of action together if such trial wound be inexpedient, and in such case such court or judge might order separate records to be made up, and separate trials to be had. The joinder in one bill in equity of distinct and independent matters, which was termed multifariousness, was a ground of objection to the bill. See MULTIFARIOUSNESS.By (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XVIII., the plaintiff may in many cases unite in the same action and the same ...
remote cause
remote cause see cause ...
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