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Concomitance

The state of accompanying accompaniment...

Concomitantly

In company with others unitedly concurrently...

Equal pay for equal work, it does not mean that all the members of a cadre must receive the same pay packet irrespective of their seniority, source of recruitment, educational qualifications and various other incidents of service, State of Andhra Pradesh v. G. Sreenivasa Rao, (1989) 2 SCC 290.Article 39(d) of the Constitution proclaims 'equal pay for equal work for both men and women' as a Directive Principle of State Policy. Equal pay for equal work for both men and women means equal pay for equal work for everyone and as between the sexes. The Preamble to the Constitution declares the solemn resolution of the people of India to constitute India into a Sovereign Socialist Democratic Republic. Again the word 'Socialist' must mean some thing. Even if it does not mean to each according to his need it must at least mean 'equal pay for equal work'.'The principle of equal pay for equal work is expressly recognized by all socialist systems of law, e.g., s. 59 of the Hungarian Labour Code, Pa...

For the purpose of making a survey of Wakf properties

For the purpose of making a survey of Wakf properties, the words 'for the purpose of making a survey of wakf properties' is a key to the construction of the section. The ordinary meaning of the word 'survey', as given in the Random House Dictionary of English Language, is 'to take a general or comprehensive view of or appraise, a situation's. If the Commissioner of Wakfs has the power to make a survey, it is but implicit that in the exercise of such power he should enquire whether a wakf exists. The making of such an enquiry is a necessary concomitant of the power to survey, Board of Muslim Wakfs v. Radha Kishan, AIR 1979 SC 289: (1979) 2 SCC 468: (1979) 2 SCR 148....

In vacuo

In vacuo, without object; without concomitants, or coherence....

Instigate

Instigate, referred. (Penal Code, 1860, s. 107, Expl. I)Instigation is to good, urge forward, provoke, incite or encourage to do 'an act'. To satisfy the requirement of instigation though it is not necessary that actual words must be used to that effect or what constitutes instigation must necessarily and specifically be suggestive of the consequence. A word uttered in the fit of anger or emotion without intending the consequences to actually follow cannot be said to be instigation, Ramesh Kumar v. State of Chattisgarh, AIR 2001 SC 3837 (3844). (Penal Code, 1860, ss. 306 & 107); see also (2003) 12 SCC 469The word 'instigate' denotes incitement or urging to do some drastic or unadvisable action or to stimulate or incite. Presence of mens rea, therefore, is the necessary concomitant of instigation. It is common knowledge that the words uttered in a quarrel or in a spur of the moment cannot be taken to be uttered with mens rea. It is a fit of anger and emotional, Sanju v. State of Madhya ...

Knowledge

Knowledge, 'knowledge' is an awareness on the part of the person concerned indicating his state of mind. 'Reason to believe' is another facet of the state of mind. 'Knowledge' will be slightly on a higher plane than 'reason to believe'. A person can be supposed to know where there is a direct appeal to his senses and a person is presumed to have a reason to believe if he has sufficient cause to believe the same, Joti Parshad v. State of Haryana, AIR 1993 SC 1167 (1169): (1993) Supp 2 SCC 497.A state of mind entertained by a person with regard to existing facts which he has himself observed, or the existence of which has been communicated to him by persons whose veracity he has no reason to doubt, Emperor v. Zamin, AIR 1932 Oudh 28.Knowledge be inferred from the circumstances of the case, Emperor v. Maturanath De, AIR 1932 Cal 850.Knowledge is an awareness on the part of the person concerned indicating his state of mind, A.S. Krishnan v. State of Kerala, AIR 2004 SC 3229.Is the fact or ...

Nuisance

Nuisance [fr. nuire, Fr., to hurt], something noxious of offensive. Any unauthorised act which, without direct physical interference, materially impairs the use and enjoyment by another of his property, or prejudicially affects his health, comfort, or convenience, is a nuisance.Nuisance may be distinguished from negligence in that nuisance is an act or omission causing injury, the injury itself giving rise to an action for damages, while a person suffering from damage due to negligence must prove that the damage was caused by some want of care, according to its degree which was required in the particular circumstances of the case. Actions against persons or public undertakings for damage under statutory powers are generally founded on negligence. Where the actual method of exercising the power creating a nuisance is indicated by the statute negligence in the authorised method may be actionable. The onus appears to be on a defendant pleading that the nuisance was inevitable and compulso...

Resignation

Resignation, implies that the party resigning has been elected to the office which he resigns: a man cannot 'resign' that which he is not entitled to, Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, Vol. 3, p. 2299.Resignation, is a term of legal art having legal connotations which describe certain legal results. It is characteristically, the voluntary surrender of a position by the person on resigning, made freely and not under duress and the word is generally defined as an act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession or position, Corpus Juris Secundum, Vol. 77, p. 311.Resignation, must be unconditional and with an intention to operate as such, Words and Phrases (Permanent Edition) Vol. 37, p. 476.Means the spontaneous relinquishment of one's own right as conveyed by the maxim. Resignatio est juris propril spontanea refutatio, Black's Law Dictionary, 6th Edn.Resignation, must be made with intention of relinquishment the office accompanied by act of relinquishment, Prabha Aarti v. State of Utta...

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