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Purchaser

Purchaser, a buyer, a vendee; also the root of descent, from whom, under the (English) Inheritance Act, 1833, the descent was in every case to be traced, before 1926, and now, as to a limitation to...

Representation

Representation, by public bodies, associations or individuals ventilating individual grievances are considered by Petitions Committee of Lok Sabha. Representations in the form of letters, telegrams, copies of resolutions are treated as representation and considered by the...

Money land

Money land. In equity, land articled or devised to be sold, and turned into money, is considered as money, and money articled or bequeathed to be invested in land, has, inequity, many of the qualities of...

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Entertain

Entertain, means 'file or received by the High Court' and it has no reference to the actual hearing of the application for leave to appeal; otherwise the result would be that in many cases applications for...

Discharge

Discharge, to relieve of a duty. A sheriff is said to be discharged of his prisoner; a prisoner discharged from custody; a jury discharged from the cause. See next title. A rule nisi is discharged when...

Promotion

Promotion, as understood in ordinary parlance and also as a term frequently used in cases involving service laws means that a person already holding a position would have a promotion if he is appointed to another...

Decree of affirmance

Decree of affirmance, in determining the question as to whether the appellate decree passed by the High Court affirmed the decision of the trial Court the appellate decree must be considered as a whole in relation...

Deemed

Deemed, the meaning to be attached to the word 'deemed' must depend upon the context in which it is used. In Lalji Haridas's case (1964(6) SCR 700) the Supreme Court went elaborately into the question as...

Desertion

Desertion, (1) the criminal offence of abandoning the naval or military service without license. See ss. 12 et seq. of the (English) Army Act, 1881, replacing similar s.s of the (English) annual Mutiny Acts, and Reg....

Fair and equitable

Fair and equitable, The words 'fair' and 'equitable' both mean 'just or unbiased' (see the Concise Oxford Dictionary, 4th Edn., p. 426 and p. 402). The words 'fair and equitable' must be given their due meaning...

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