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Constructive total loss

she will become so when a prudent uninsured owner would not repair her having regard to all the circumstances: in the case of a wreck the owner is entitled to take into account the break-up value, as

Contract for sale of land

Parker, 8 M & W 344. He is under an obligation to show a good title (in ordinary circumstances for the thirty years preceding the date of contract, see ABSTRACT), and to prove that title by sufficient

Conversion, equitable

estate, reserving rent payable to himself, his heirs and assigns [Crabtree v. Bramble, (1747) 3 Atk 680], these circumstances have been considered to amount to an election. The nature of the property cannot be altered by the

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Chattels or catals

if A. shall s long live is a chattel interest or chattel real, for it cannot under any circumstances last beyond the 99 years, although it will determine earlier by A.'s death, while a lease for the

Coroner

cause is unknown, or that such person has dies in prison, or in such place or under such circumstances as to require an inquest in pursuance of any Act, the coroner, whether the cause of death arose

Criminal negligence

injury either to the public generally or to an individual in particular, which having regard to all the circumstances out of which the charge has arisen, it was the imperative date of the accused person to have

Cultivable land

brought under cultivation is cultiv-able land unless some provision of law provides for holding it otherwise in certain circumstances, Athamanthaswami Devasthanam v. K. Gopalaswami, AIR 1965 SC 338 (340): (1964) 3 SCR 736. [T.N. Estates Land Act,

Clubs

No intoxicating liquor is to be supplied in an unregistered club, and a registered club may under certain circumstances be struck off the register by a Court of Summary Jurisdiction. See also the (English) Licensing Act, 1921

Best judgment assessment

accounts may afford, he may also rely on other information gathered by him as well as the surrounding circumstances of the case. The assessments made on the basis of the assessee's accounts and those made on 'best

Charity

the word 'charity' which in common parlance is a word denoting a giving to some one in necessitous circumstances and in law a giving for public good. A private gift to one's own self or kith and

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