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Abeyance, or Abbayance

or Abbayance [fr. abayer, Fr., to expect, to look at anything with open mouth], in expectation, remembrance, and contemplation of law. The word abeyance has been compared to what the civilians call hereditas jacens; for, as the

Curtesy of England

trust to or for the settlor, is to be deemed a prior estate under the settlement within the contemplation of the (English) Fines and Recoveries Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 74), s. 22, appointing

Corporation

Chiranji Lal v. Union of India, 1950 SCR 869. Is an artificial being, indivisible and existing only in contemplation of Law, A Dictionary of Law, William C. Anderson, 1889, p. 260. Corporation, may be defined as a

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Contract, breach of, inducement of

cases were commented on in Allen v. Flood, 1898 AC 1. An Act done by a person in contemplation or furtherance of a 'trade dispute,' q.v. as defined by the (English) Trades Disputes and Trade Unions Act,1927

Combination

agreement or combination by two or more persons to do or procure to be done any act in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute between employers and workmen shall not be indictable as a crime if

Civil Law

stood so long against the waves and weathers of time, that it is impossible ,while engaged in the contemplation of the system, not to be struck with some portion of the awe and veneration which are felt

Cessation of service

Rules would, in substance and effect, stand on the same footing as 'his removal' from service within the contemplation of Article 311(2) of the Constitution, particularly when it is against the will of the employee who is

Breach of close

one field is divided from another by a hedge, or by an invisible boundary, existing only in the contemplation of law, as when one man's land adjoins to another's in the same field. Every such entry or

Meditate

To keep the mind in a state of contemplation to dwell on anything in thought to think seriously to muse to cogitate to reflect

Wills

eighteenth s. that every will shall be revoked by marriage, but if the will has been made in contemplation of a particular marriage it will not be revoked by that marriage: Law of Property Act, 1925, s.

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