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Cession, a ceasing, yielding up, or giving over. By 21 Hen. 8, c. 13 (repealed by the Pluralities Act, 1838 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 106), if any one having a benefice of 8l. per annum, or upwards, accepted any other, the first was adjudged void, unless he obtained a dispensation. A vacancy thus made, for want of a dispensation, was called cession. See Plurality....
cession
cession 1 : an act of ceding : a yielding (as of property) to another: as a in the civil law of Louisiana : assignment or transfer of property rights by a debtor to a creditor b : transfer of liability by an insurer to a reinsurer c : transfer of control of or sovereignty over specific property or territory esp. by treaty [such district…as may, by of particular States…become the seat of the government of the United States "U.S. Constitution art. I"] 2 : the monetary amount of liability ceded by an insurer to a reinsurer compare concession ...
Benefit of cession
Benefit of cession, means a debtor's immunity from imprisonment for debt. The immunity arises when the debtor's property is assigned to the debtor's creditors, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 151....
Cession of a part of the territory of India
Cession of a part of the territory of India, includes admission of the claim of any foreign country to any such part. [Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (37 of 1967), s. 2 (b)]...
Colony
Colony [fr. colo, Lat., to cultivate], a settlement in a foreign country possessed and cultivated, either wholly or partially, by immigrants and their descendants, who have a political connection with and subordination to the mother-country whence they emigrated. In other words, it is a place peopled from some more ancient city or country.England was not the first among European nations that planted settlements in parts beyond Europe. But by her own colonization, and by the conquests of the settlements of other nations, she was now acquired a more extensive dominion of colonies and dependencies than any other nation. The colonies of Great Britain exceed in number, extent, and value those of every other country.In an Act of Parliament (English) passed after 1889 the expression 'colony' means by s. 18(3), of the Interpretation Act, 1889, 'any part of her Majesty's dominions, exclusive of the British Islands and of British India, and where parts of such dominions are under both a central ...
Unlawful activity
Unlawful activity, in relation to an individual or association, means any action taken by such individual or association (whether by committing an act or by words, either spoken or written, or by signs or by visible representation or otherwise),-(i) which is intended, or supports any claim, to bring about, on any ground whatsoever, the cession of a part of the territory of India or the secession of a part of the territory of India from the Union, or which incites any individual or group of indivi-duals to bring about such cession or secession;(ii) which disclaims, questions, disrupts or is intended to disrupt the sovereignty and territorial integrity of India. [Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (37 of 1967), s. 2(f)]Unlawful activity [see Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (37 of 1967), s. 2(o)]...
Cession
A yielding to physical force...
Act of State
Act of State, means not all governmental acts as it does in the French and Continental Systems but only some of them. The term is next used to designate immunities and prohibitions sometimes created by statutes. The term is also extended to include certain prerogatives and special immunities enjoyed by the sovereign and its agents in the business of internal government. the term is even used to indicate all acts into which, by reason that they are official in character, the Courts may not inquire, or in respect of which an official declaration, is bindings on the Courts, State of Saurashrtra v. Meman Haj Ismail, AIR 1959 SC 1383 (1387): (1960) 1 SCR 537.Means acts done against aliens in exercise of sovereign power of the State. The Municipal Courts debarred from entering into the validity of the Act of State, Secretary of State for India in Council v. Kamachee Boyee Sabha, 7 MIA 476. See also Jahangir v. Secretary of State for India, 6 Bom LR 131; Virendra v. State of Uttar Pradesh, 19...
Adjournment
Adjournment [fr. jour, Fr., a day], a putting off to another time or place, a continuation of a meeting from one day to another. An adjourned meeting is in ordinary cases a mere continuation of the original meeting and no fresh notice of it need be given, Scadding v. Lorant, (1851) 3 HLC 418. The adjournment of a trial is in the discretion of the judge. As to adjournment of trial in the High Court, see R.SC. Ord. XXXVI., r. 34; and as to adjournments in County Courts, see County Courts Act, 1934, s. 36.As to adjournment by justices on hearing charge of offence punishable on summary jurisdiction, see Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1848 (11 & 12 Vict. c. 43), s. 16.Unless the object of the context or inquiry otherwise warrants the term 'adjournment' in connection with a meeting should be applied only to the case of a meeting which has already convened and which is thereafter postponed and not to a case where a notice convening a meeting is cancelled and subsequently, a notice for holding the ...
British settlement
British settlement, denotes a British possession, not acquired by conquest or cession, which is not for the time being within the jurisdiction of the legislature of any British possession other than a legislature constituted in accordance with the British Settlement Act, 1887 and 1945, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 6, 4th Edn., Para 807, p. 355....
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