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Newspaper
Newspaper, means any printed periodical work containing public news or comments on public news and includes such other class of printed periodical work as may, from time to time, be notified in this behalf by the...
Constable
The (English) Police Act, 1919, empowers the Home Secretary to make regulations as to the pay, allowances, pensions, conditions of service, etc., of all police forces within England and Wales, which regulations are binding on every police … Law Dictionary, 7th Edn. Every prison officer while acting as such has all the powers, authority, protection and privileges of a constable, Pointing v. Wilson, (1927) 1 KB 382.
Tail
4, c. 74); but the entail of offices or dignities cannot be barred. Before the statute De Donis Conditionalibus, the donee could, after issue born, have alienated the land, whereby the issue would have been disinherited and … of Property Act, 1925, s. 176; see infra] This estate or equitable interest possesses the follow-ing incidents and privileges:- (1) It was like a fee-simple formerly subject to curtesy and dower (if not barred); see now s.
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Pension
[Constitution of India, Art. 366(17)] Means a periodical allowance or stipend granted, not is respect of any right, privilege, perquisite of office but, on account of past service or particular merits or as compensation to dethroned princes, … was not on a contributory basis, gave to every person the right to a pension who fulfilled certain conditions. The Act, with the amending (English) Old Age Pensions Acts, 1911, 1919 and 1924, has been repealed by
Wages
Shipping Act, 1894, s. 164). See also title MASTER AND SERVANT; PREFERENTIAL PAYMENTS; TRUCK ACTS. It includes any privilege or benefit which is capable of being estimated in money, other than a travelling allowance or the value … which are earned by an employee while on duty or on leave in accordance with the terms and conditions of his employments and which are paid or are payable to him in cash and includes dearness allowance
Hire-purchase agreement
the hire-purchase price, is not interest but represents a sum which the hirer has to pay for the privilege of being allowed to discharge the purchase price of goods by installments, Charanjit Singh Chadha v. Sudhir Mehra, … an agreement under which-- (i) possession of goods is delivered by the owner thereof to a person on condition that such person pays the agreed amount in periodical installments, and (ii) the property in the goods is
Cognizance
notice of an offence. It is entirely a different thing from initiation of proceedings; rather it is the condition precedent to the initiation of proceedings by the Magistrate or the Judge. Cognizance is taken of cases and … of the realm, the ancient history of the realm, the order and course of proceedings in Parliament, the privileges of the House of Commons, the existence of war with a foreign state, the several seals of the
Advowson
An advowsons, once completely and unconditionally severed, can never again become appendant. But should an advowson be disappended conditionally, as in the case of a mortgage, it will reunite when the loan is repaid. So, if the … called the patron or advocate (patronus aut advocatus), on account of his obligation to protect and defend the privileges of the particular benefice. An advowson is in the nature of a temporal property and spiritual trust. For
Reduction in rank
(ii) it must be by way of penalty. Where there is no reduction in pay and other service conditions such as right to pension, gratuity and the like, it does not constitute reduction in rank, but if … very reduction from that rank will operate as a penalty, for he will then lose the emoluments and privileges of that rank. If, however, he has no right to the particular rank, his reduction from an officiating
Fee-simple
ever.' The word 'assigns,' however, was not material and might have been omitted for it gave no other privilege to the owner than that which the law confers upon him by virtue of his estate, as entitling … a legal or equitable right of re-entry. All other estates over land which are determinable by limitation or condition have become equitable interests. [(English) L.P. Act, 1925, 1st Sched., Part I.]
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