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Petty-bag Office

Bag, and the transfer of his duties, and in 1888, the last holder of the office dying, it ceased to exist. The Common Law jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery is now transferred to the High Court

Person resident in India

indicate his attention to stay outside India for an uncertain period; (ii) a citizen of India, who having ceased by virtue of paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) or paragraph (c) of sub-clause (i) to be resident in

Person in-charge

company or firm. When a partner in-charge of a business proceeds abroad it does not mean that he ceases to be in-charge, unless there is evidence that he gave up charge in favour of another person, Girdhari

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Perpetuity

Walsh v. Secretary of State for India, (1863) 10 HLC 367. Perpetuity, unlimited duration; exemption from intermission or ceasing, where, though all who have interest should join in a covenant, so that they could not bar or

Overseers of the poor

Law Amendment Act, 1866 (c. 113), s. 12 (repealed) (except in rural parishes, in which case their jurisdiction ceased by virtue of the (English) Local Government Act, 1894), overseers of the poor, and they joined with the

Obsolete

Obsolete, invalid by virtue of discontinuance, said of a law or practice which has ceased to be enforced or be in use by reason of change of manners and circumstances, as 'wager or

Mercantile Law Amendment Act, 1856 (English)

consideration for a guarantee need not appear in writing; (4) that a guarantee to or for a firm ceases upon a change in the firm (this s. is repealed by the Partnership Act, 1890, and reproduced by

Non-tenure

the writ was sued out, 1 Mod. 181. The distinction between real and personal actions has now practically ceased to exist. See ACTION.

New entrant

from that immediately proceeding it may well be called new. Furthermore, a situation which once existed and then ceased to exist (disappeared) may properly attract the word 'new' on re- appearance, P. Venkaiah v. G. Krishna Rao,

New

from that immediately preceding it may well be called new. Furthermore, a situation which once existed and then ceased to exist (disappeared) may properly attract the word 'new' on re-appearance, P. Venkaiah v. G. Krishna Rao, AIR

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