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Contracting State, means (1) one of the original parties to the 1968 Convention (Belgium, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands); or (2) one of the parties acceding to that Convention under the Accession Convention (Denmark, the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom), being a state in respect of which the Accession Convention has entered into force in accordance with Art. 39 of that convention, Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act, 1982, s. 51(3), 50 (UK), Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 3(1), para 330, p. 259.Means any State, including the United Kingdom, which is a party to the Chicago Convention, Air Navigation Order 1989, SI 1989/2004, Art. 106(1) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. (2), para 1190, p. 580....
Contracting State
Contracting State, means a Government of any country or place outside India in respect of which arrangement has been made by the Central Government with the Government of such country or place through a treaty or otherwise for transfer of prisoners from India to such country or place and vice versa and includes any other Government of such country or place specified by the Central Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, under sub-s. (1) of s. 3. [Repatriation of Prisoners Act, 2003 (49 of 2003), s. 2(a)]...
Letters of safe-conduct
Letters of safe-conduct. No subject of a nation at war with us can, by the law of nations, come into the realm, nor can travel himself upon the high seas, or send his goods and merchandise from one place to another, without danger of being seized by our subjects, unless he has letters of safe-conduct, which, by drivers old statutes, must be granted under the Great Seal, and enrolled in Chancery, or else are of no effect-the sovereign being the best judge of such emergencies as may deserve exemption from the general law of arms, Chitty's Prerogatives of the Crown, p. 48, and Vattel by Chit. 416. But passports or licences from our ambassadors abroad are now more usually obtained, and are allowed to be of equal validity; see ALIEN ENEMY.Where the court has made an order for attachment or forfeiture of any property under sub-sec. (1), and such property is suspected to be in a contracting State, the court may issue a letter of request to a court or an authority in the contracting State for ...
Forward contract
Forward contract, means a transaction involving delivery, other than Cash or Tom or Spot delivery, of foreign exchange. [Foreign Exchange Manage-ment (Foreign Exchange Derivative Contracts) Regulations, 2000, R. 2 (iv)]The expression 'forward contracts' in s. 2(c) is construed so as to include speculative contracts which ostensibly are for delivery of goods, Shivanarayana Kabre v. State of Madras, AIR 1967 SC 986 (989). [Forward Contracts (Regulation) Act, (74 of 1952), s. 2(c)]An agreement to buy or sell a particular non-standardized asset (use currencies) at a fixed price on a future rate, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 666....
Prisoner
Prisoner, 'prisoner' means a person undergoing a sentence of imprisonment under an order passed by a criminal court including the courts established under the law for the time being in force in contracting States. [Repatriation of Prisoners Act, 2003 (49 of 2003), s. 2(c)]One who is being tried for felony; one who is confined in a prison. As to legal aid for a prisoner, see POOR, and as to the forcible feeding of a prisoner, see Leigh v. Gladstone, (1909) 26 TLR 139. As to the temporary discharge of prisoners on account of the condition of their health. [see (English) Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill-health) Act, 1913]...
Contract
Contract, an agreement between competent parties, to do or to abstain from doing some act. For numerous other definitions, see Chalmers's Sale of Goods Act, App. II., where it is said that the 'disposition of the best modern writers appears to be to define ' contract ' as an agreement enforce-able at law,' but contended that this definition seems rather too narrow.Every contract is founded upon the mutual agree-ment of the parties; the other essentials are legality, capacity (depending on age, mental ability, sex and status) a mutual identity of consent (consensus ad idem), and form. When an agreement is stated either verbally or in writing it is usually called an express contract; when the agreement is matter of inference and deduction, it is called n implied contract. (See IMPLIED CONTRACT.)Contract, which provides that the price includes the cost of the goods, the freight and the insurance premium for the transit, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 3(1), para 253, p. 210.Contracts may...
Infant
Infant [fr. infans, Lat., one who cannot speak], a person under twenty-one years of age, whose acts are in many cases either void or voidable. See AGE.At Common Law, the contracts of infants are divided into three classes: 1st. Those which are absolutely void; such as are positively injurious to the interests of the infant, and can only operate to his prejudice; as a surety-bond, or a release to his guardian.2nd. Those which are only voidable: such as are beneficial to him, which he may affirm or avoid when he comes of age; as a conveyance of lands, a promissory note, an account stated.3rd. Those which are binding ab initio and need on ratification: such as contracts for the public service, Articles of apprenticeship [see Green v. Thompson, (1899) 2 QB 1], executed contracts of marriage, representative acts as executor or trustee, contracts for necessaries. In an action brought for the price of goods, if the defendant pleads infancy, the onus is on the plaintiff to prove that the goods...
contract
contract [Latin contractus from contrahere to draw together, enter into (a relationship or agreement), from com- with, together + trahere to draw] 1 : an agreement between two or more parties that creates in each party a duty to do or not do something and a right to performance of the other's duty or a remedy for the breach of the other's duty ;also : a document embodying such an agreement see also accept, bargain, breach, cause, consent, consideration, duty, meeting of the minds, obligation, offer, performance, promise, rescind, social contract, subcontract Uniform Commercial Code in the Important Laws section NOTE: Contracts must be made by parties with the necessary capacity (as age or mental soundness) and must have a lawful, not criminal, object. Except in Louisiana, a valid contract also requires consideration, mutuality of obligations, and a meeting of the minds. In Louisiana, a valid contract requires the consent of the parties and a cause for the contract in addition to c...
Contracts concluded in advance
Contracts concluded in advance, Contracts which are concluded between a producers or an association of producers and a buyer to supply hops which have been produced in the community must be registered in the relevant producer member State. A separate register must be kept in each member State in respect of 'contracts concluded in advance, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 1(2), para 1072, p. 719....
Contraction
The act or process of contracting shortening or shrinking the state of being contracted as contraction of the heart of the pupil of the eye or of a tendon the contraction produced by cold...
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