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Tort
Tort [fr. tortus, Lat.], an injury or wrong independent of contract, as by assault, libel, malicious prosecution, negligence, slander, or trespass (see those titles). Actions are divided into actions … one of tort--per Collins, M.R., in Sachs v. Henderson, (1902) 1 KB 612. Apparently if the plaintiff has suffered an injury for which, apart from the contract, he could have recovered damages, it is a tort, although
Uses
A use is the intention or purpose, express or implied, upon which property is to be held. The Common Law treated the actual possessor for all purposes as the owner of the property. It was not difficult … que use. Function of feoffee to uses.-The use consisted of three parts:-(1) That the feoffee to uses should suffer the cestui que use to take the profits; and (2) upon the request of the cestui que use,
Penalty
Penalty, is a liability under the taxing statute, Khemka & Co. v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1975 SC 1549. Penalty, is legal or official punishment such as a term … as meaning a payment which has to be made or a deprivation of liberty which has to be suffered as a consequence of a finding that the person accused of a crime is guilty of the charge,
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Person aggrieved
and is wrongfully excluded, then he is a 'person aggrieved', Chapadgaon Vividh Karyakan Seva Sahakari Society, Chapadgaon v. Collector of Ahmednagar, (1989) 3 Bom CR 641 [Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act, 1960, s. 144]; Adi Pherozshab Gandhi v. … SC 856: (1980) 2 SCR 873: (1980) 3 SCC 141. (v) 'Person aggrieved' means a man who has suffered a legal grievance a man against whom a decision has been pronounced which has wrongfully deprived him of
Possession
Possession, correctly understood, means effective physical control or occupation. The word 'possession' is sometimes used inaccurately as synonymous with the … 1866 LR 1 QB 585. If the owner, reversioner or person entitled, subject to the bailee's interest, has suffered damage by the same acts, he may sue for the damage done to his interest, but not on
Accident
a mishap, an extraordinary incident; something not expected. It is also a head of equitable jurisdiction, which was concurrent with that of the Courts of Law. Means an unlook for mishap or an untoward event which is … an accident. It must be regarded as an accident, from the point of view of the workman who suffers from it, that its occurrence is unexpected and without design on his part, though either intentionally caused by
Consideration
Consideration. Any act of the promisee (the person claiming the benefit of an obligation) from which the promisor (the … the obligation) or a stranger derives a benefit or advantage, or any labour detriment or inconvenience sustained or suffered by the promisee at the request, express or implied, of the promisor. See Laythoarp v. Bryant, 3 Scott
Chattels or catals
chattels survives in the legal meaning of the terms, 'personal chattels,' denoting movable property and 'chattels real,' which concern the realty, such as terms of years of lands or tenements, wardships, the interest of tenant by statute … enumerated: (a) for years; (b) from year to year; (c) at will; (d) by elegit; and (e) on sufferance. See also HEIRLOOMS.
GATT-astrophe
on our way to recolonisation. This I call is GATT-astrophe.' [Justice Iyer, Off the Bench, Universal Law Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., p. 139]. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer) … GATT-astrophe, Catastrophe caused by the GATT agreement. '...we are to suffer foreign domination are all on our way to recolonisation. This I call is GATT-astrophe.' [Justice Iyer, Off the
Volenti non fit injuria
Watson in Smith v. Baker, 1891, AC (355). The question is one for the jury, Dublin, etc., Railway Co. v. Slattery, (1878) 3 App Cas 1155. For a recent application of the maxim, see Herd v. Weardale, … Volenti non fit injuria. Plow. 501.-(Where the sufferer is willing no injury is done.) See this maxim criticized by Lord Esher in Yarmouth v. France, (1887)
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Tort
Tort [fr. tortus, Lat.], an injury or wrong independent of contract, as by assault, libel, malicious prosecution, negligence, slander, or trespass (see those titles). Actions are divided into actions … one of tort--per Collins, M.R., in Sachs v. Henderson, (1902) 1 KB 612. Apparently if the plaintiff has suffered an injury for which, apart from the contract, he could have recovered damages, it is a tort, although
Uses
A use is the intention or purpose, express or implied, upon which property is to be held. The Common Law treated the actual possessor for all purposes as the owner of the property. It was not difficult … que use. Function of feoffee to uses.-The use consisted of three parts:-(1) That the feoffee to uses should suffer the cestui que use to take the profits; and (2) upon the request of the cestui que use,
Penalty
Penalty, is a liability under the taxing statute, Khemka & Co. v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1975 SC 1549. Penalty, is legal or official punishment such as a term … as meaning a payment which has to be made or a deprivation of liberty which has to be suffered as a consequence of a finding that the person accused of a crime is guilty of the charge,
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Person aggrieved
and is wrongfully excluded, then he is a 'person aggrieved', Chapadgaon Vividh Karyakan Seva Sahakari Society, Chapadgaon v. Collector of Ahmednagar, (1989) 3 Bom CR 641 [Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act, 1960, s. 144]; Adi Pherozshab Gandhi v. … SC 856: (1980) 2 SCR 873: (1980) 3 SCC 141. (v) 'Person aggrieved' means a man who has suffered a legal grievance a man against whom a decision has been pronounced which has wrongfully deprived him of
Possession
Possession, correctly understood, means effective physical control or occupation. The word 'possession' is sometimes used inaccurately as synonymous with the … 1866 LR 1 QB 585. If the owner, reversioner or person entitled, subject to the bailee's interest, has suffered damage by the same acts, he may sue for the damage done to his interest, but not on
Accident
a mishap, an extraordinary incident; something not expected. It is also a head of equitable jurisdiction, which was concurrent with that of the Courts of Law. Means an unlook for mishap or an untoward event which is … an accident. It must be regarded as an accident, from the point of view of the workman who suffers from it, that its occurrence is unexpected and without design on his part, though either intentionally caused by
Consideration
Consideration. Any act of the promisee (the person claiming the benefit of an obligation) from which the promisor (the … the obligation) or a stranger derives a benefit or advantage, or any labour detriment or inconvenience sustained or suffered by the promisee at the request, express or implied, of the promisor. See Laythoarp v. Bryant, 3 Scott
Chattels or catals
chattels survives in the legal meaning of the terms, 'personal chattels,' denoting movable property and 'chattels real,' which concern the realty, such as terms of years of lands or tenements, wardships, the interest of tenant by statute … enumerated: (a) for years; (b) from year to year; (c) at will; (d) by elegit; and (e) on sufferance. See also HEIRLOOMS.
GATT-astrophe
on our way to recolonisation. This I call is GATT-astrophe.' [Justice Iyer, Off the Bench, Universal Law Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., p. 139]. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer) … GATT-astrophe, Catastrophe caused by the GATT agreement. '...we are to suffer foreign domination are all on our way to recolonisation. This I call is GATT-astrophe.' [Justice Iyer, Off the
Volenti non fit injuria
Watson in Smith v. Baker, 1891, AC (355). The question is one for the jury, Dublin, etc., Railway Co. v. Slattery, (1878) 3 App Cas 1155. For a recent application of the maxim, see Herd v. Weardale, … Volenti non fit injuria. Plow. 501.-(Where the sufferer is willing no injury is done.) See this maxim criticized by Lord Esher in Yarmouth v. France, (1887)
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