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Pension

Pension, an annual allowance made to any one, usually in consideration of past services. By the (English) Succession to the Crown Act, 1707, (6 Anne, c. 7) (c. 41

Privy purse

India for covering the expenses of each of the rulers of former Indian States and their families in consideration of their agreement of merger in the Indian Union, A Commentary on the Constitution of India, Durga Das

Retrospective law

creates a new obligation, imposes a new duty, or attaches a new disability in respect to transactions or considerations already past. Retroactive statute means a statute which creates a new obligation on transactions or considerations already past

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Remind

put one in mind of something to bring to the remembrance of to bring to the notice or consideration of a person

Acquittal

prison warders though done without his knowledge, Mee v. Cruikshank, (1902) 20 Cox 210. Having given our anxious consideration to the language employed both in s. 417(1) of the old Code and s. 2(a) of the Act

Respect

To take notice of to regard with special attention to regard as worthy of special consideration hence to care for to heed

Ridiculous

Fitted to excite ridicule absurd and laughable unworthy of serious consideration as a ridiculous dress or behavior

Abstract of title

those that are abstracted are faithfully given. The receipt clause should be attended to, the amount of the consideration, the names of the grantors and grantees, and the identity of the parcels, and that there are no

Accord

the debtor, but by a stranger; Allen v. Royal Bank of Canada, 95 LJ PC 17. And see CONSIDERATION. * See British Russian Gazette Ltd. v. Associated Newspapers Ltd., 1933 (2) KB 616.

Acquisition

(1695): 1962 (2) SCR 292. The expression 'acquisition' in the definition means only transfer and the expression 'valuable consideration' takes colour from the preceding expression 'cash or deferred payment' and can only mean some other monetary payment

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