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Inter-Parliamentary Union
Inter-Parliamentary Union, is a world-wide organization of Parliamentarians United in common action to secure and maintain the full participation of their respective State in the firm establishment and development … firm establishment and development of representative institution and promotion of international peace and co-operation, particularly by importing the objectives of the United Nations, IPU pamphlet titled as inter-Parliamentary Union, 1889-1889, what it is what it does, Nov.
Partition, Deed of
of, a primary or original convey-ance. When an estate was held in community by joint tenants, tenants in common, coparceners, or joint heirs in gavelkind, and they were desirous of dividing it into distinct portions, to be … distinct portions, to be exclusively enjoyed by each, and were not under legal disability, they could accomplish their object by this deed, and by s. 3 of the (English) Real Property Act, 1845 (now repealed), the partition
Arrest of judgment
a court's refusal to render or enforce a judgment because of a defect apparent from the record. At Common Law, courts have the power to arrest judgment for intrinsic causes appearing on the record, as when the … when the case alleged in the pleadings is legally insufficient. Today, that type of defect must typically be objected to before trial or before judgment is entered, so that the motion in arrest of judgment has been
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Heir
is indefeasible, provided he outlive the ancestor: as the eldest son, who must by the course of the Common Law be heir to his father on his death, 3 Prest. Abst. 5. Especially the eldest son of … in all cases a question of intention which has to be determined principally on a consideration of the object and purpose of the statute in which it is used, Jaspal Singh v. Additional District Judge, AIR 1984
Game
of its provisions are directed to trespass in pursuit of woodcocks, snipes, quails, land rails, and coneys. At Common Law game belongs to a tenant and not to a landlord, but leases frequently contain a reservation of … Game [fr. gaman, Sax.], all sorts of birds and beasts that are objects of the chase. The term is defined by the Game Act, 1831 (1 & 2 Wm. 4, c.
trespass
of depriving another of his or her property without the intent to steal it) or instrumentality (as an object placed wrongfully on another's land) causing it is ended or removed criminal trespass : trespass to property that … causes an injury to or invasion of the person, rights, or esp. property of another ;also : the common-law form of action for redress of injuries directly caused by such a wrongful act compare trespass on the
Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1854
and Canal Traffic Act, 1854, (English) an Act by ss. 2 and 3 of which the Courts of Common Pleas in England and Ireland and the Court of Session in Scotland were empowered to compel railway and … any particular person or traffic; and (3) to forward traffic without delay in cases of continuous communication. The object of the Act, which was amended in 1873 and 1888, was to ensure freedom and economy of transit
Damages
fixed by opinion or by an estimate, the damages are said to be 'unliquidated'; see Odgers on the Common Law. Damages, too, may be further classified as-- (1) Contemptuous Damages, e.g., a farthing verdict in an action … damage has been proved, and usually indicating that though the action was a proper one to bring, its object was not so much the recovering of damages as the establishing a right, see Nicholls v. Ely Beet
Law of Property Act, 1925 (English)
legal estates which have been converted into equitable interests from the 1st January, 1926, are: (1) Tenancies in common or in undivided shares inland (see UNDIVIDED SHARES). (2) Limited estates, less than the fee or entire term, … Law of Property Acts, 1925 to 1932), has consolidated and effected changes in the land laws with the object of simplifying the transfer and conveyance of land. An important change was the abolition of all legal estates
Knowledge
intention, the consequence being fore-known as the inevitable concomitant of that which is desired, but being itself an object of repugnance rather than desire, and therefore not intended, John Salmond, Jurisprudence, 380-381, Glanville L Williams; see also … fact. It is necessary..... to distinguish between producing a result intentionally and producing it knowingly. Intention and knowledge commonly go together, for he who intends a result usually knows that it will follow, and he who knows
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