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Pre-contract

a canonical impediment to the marriage of either party. The Ecclesiastical Courts would formerly enforce this agreement, by compelling the parties to a public marriage, and if one of them had already married, such marriage would be

Jus cogens

Jus cogens, means compelling law. A mandatory norm of general international law from which no two or more nations may exempt themselves

Sewer

its control, giving them also powers and duties for the making, purchasing, and maintaining such sewers, and for compelling the use of them by persons within the district. See Wood Green Urban Council v. Joseph, 1908 AC

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Wholly and exclusively

earn profits, the assessee can claim deduction under s. 10(2)(xv) of the Act even though there was no compelling necessity to incur such expenditure. It is relevant to refer at this stage to the legislative history of

Prior or previous

the contextual situation or the object and design of the legislation demands it but there are no such compelling circumstances justifying reading any such implication into s. 29(1). On the other hand, the indications are all to

Public Authorities, Protection of

pursuance of the Acts. This protection was given by requiring the plaintiff to give notice of action, by compelling him to try the action in the place where the cause of it arose, by requiring him to

Recognition

recognition, but it must be such as to lead to that inevitable conclusion. Mere inaction de hors such compelling circumstances cannot amount to recognition within the meaning of the section, T.V.V. Narasimhamam v. State of Orissa, AIR

Requirement

reasonable means that it must be something more than a mere desire but need not certainly be a compelling or absolute or dire necessity, Raghunath G. Panhale v. Chaganlal Sundarji, (1999) 8 SCC 1. Requirement, implies something

Result of the election

election, the expression 'the result of the election' in s. 100(1)(c), unless there is some-thing in the context compelling a different inter-pretation, be construed in the same sense as in s. 66, and there it clearly means

Scotland and Ireland

R.S.C. Ord. XI., rr. 1 (e), 2 and 2A; Williams v. Cartwright, (1895) 1 QB 142. Process for compelling the attendance of witnesses from Scotland or Ireland before English Courts and vice versa may be issued under

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