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Deposit

necessity; as, for instance, in case of a fire, a shipwreck, or other overwhelming calamity, when property is confided to any person whom the depositor may meet without proper opportunity for reflection or choice, and thence it

Executor

person to whom the execution of the last Will of a deceased person is, by the testator's appointment, confided. [The Indian Succession Act, 1925, s. 2 (c)] (11) It means an executor or administrator of the estate

Uses

have been a right in Chancery to the beneficial ownership of property, the possession of which had been confided to another. The Court of Chancery, although without jurisdiction over the property, found a way to make an

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Collective responsibility

p. 395. Means that the ministers must, as a body, lose their office if they cannot retain the confidence of the Popular House of the Legislature, Commentary on the Constitution of India, Durga Das Basu, Vol. E,

Credit

Credit, a transfer of goods in confidence of future payment; that side of an account or any item set down in favour of one party

Confidential relationship

Confidential relationship, is one in which one party has ceded such a degree of trust and confidence as to require the other, on grounds of public policy, to show that it has not been betrayed

Confidential information

any enactment or by the order of a court; in either case, the reference to the obligation of confidence is to be construed accordingly, Local Government Act, 1972, s. 100A(3) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 1(1),

Retund

To blunt to turn as an edge figuratively to cause to be obtuse or dull as to retund confidence

Chairman

He must so conduct himself at the meetings chaired by him that he is able to win the confidence of his colleagues on he commission and carry them with him, T.N. Seshan, Chief Election Commr. of India

Cabinet

vested in cabinet which is individually and collectively responsible to Parliament. Cabinet functions as long as it enjoys confidence of Parliament, Dictionary of Political Science, Joseph Dunner, p. 73. In UK cabinet consists of the Prime Minister

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