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Trust

is one particular duty only to perform. Again, trusts may be passive or active. A trust being, in contemplation of equity, the substantial ownership of or control over property, the person having the ownership or power can

Unless and until the contrary is proved

sum to be paid by the party breaking the contract does not, by itself, remove the strong presumption contemplated by the use of the words 'unless and until the contrary is proved'. The sufficiency or insufficiency of

Uses

a demise to the grantee to uses of leaseholds and chattel interests. It is said that the statute contemplated freeholds only, and therefore employed the word SEISED; now a tenant is only possessed of a leasehold for

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Voluntary

and (iv) relating to the charge in the sense that it implies that the accused's position in the contemplated proceedings will or may be better or worse according to whether of not the statement is made, R.

Surrender

Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1458. Surrender, is one of the recognized modes of termination of tenancy, but it contemplates acceptance of possession by the landlord when the tenant surrenders it. A mere yielding up of an interest

Watandar

be wrong to regard the meaning portion as primary and the inclusive part as illustrative. The Watan Act contemplated two classes of persons. One is a larger class of persons belonging to the watan families having a

While so sitting and acting

While so sitting and acting, the words 'while so sitting and acting' in Article 224-A do not contemplate that the person requested has the powers, privileges and jurisdiction only when he sits in court during hours.

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.

With material irregularity

refer to the decision arrived at but merely to the manner in which it is reached. The errors contemplated by this clause may, in our view, relate either to breach of some provision of law or to

Writing under his hand

252 (256). [Karnataka Village Panchayats and Local Boards Act (10 of 1959), s. 31(2)] Means what the expression contemplates is a personal autograph of the person concerned and must mean what it says and it cannot be

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