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Contravenes

Contravenes, including 'fails to comply with' Food and Environment Protection Act, 1985, s. 16(3) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 1(2), para 681, p. 409....

Contravene

To meet in the way of opposition to come into conflict with to oppose to contradict to obstruct the operation of to defeat...

Contravention

The act of contravening opposition obstruction transgression violation...

Disoblige

To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility to displease to refrain from obliging to be unaccommodating to...

Authority of law, the expression 'authority of law' refers to a valid law which means the tax proposed to be levied must be within the legislative competence of the legislature imposing the tax; and the law must be validly enacted; the law must not be a colorable use of or a fraud upon the legislative power to tax; the law must not violate the conditions of fundamental right as that in Article 19(1)(a) or 19(1)(g); it must not also contravene the specific provisions of the Constitution which impose limitation on legislative power relating to particular metters like Articles 276 to 286 or 301 and; the tax must be authorised by such valid law, Saurashtra Coment and Chemical Industries v. Union of India, AIR 2001 SC 8 (16): (2001) 1 SCC 91. (Constitution of India, Art. 2)...

Consideration

Consideration. Any act of the promisee (the person claiming the benefit of an obligation) from which the promisor (the person burdened with the obligation) or a stranger derives a benefit or advantage, or any labour detriment or inconvenience sustained or suffered by the promisee at the request, express or implied, of the promisor. See Laythoarp v. Bryant, 3 Scott 250; 2 Wms. Saund 137 h; Currie v. Misa, (1875) LR 10 Exch 153.Consideration is one of the facts which the courts require as evidence of intention, (a) that a person intends his promise to be binding on him, or (b) that he intends to divest himself of a beneficial interest in property. In its widest sense consideration is the price, motive or inducement for a promise or for a transfer of property from one person to another. The nature or quality of the consideration which will be sufficient for these purposes varies with the nature of the transaction and in the absence of consideration the Courts will, except in the case of s...

Privilege

Privilege, a privilege is the opposite of a duty, and the correlative of 'no-right', Isha Valimohamad v. Haji Gulam Mohamad and Haji Dada Trust, AIR 1974 SC 2061 (2065): (1974) 2 SCC 484: (1975) 1 SCR 720. [Bombay Rents Hotels and Lodging House Rates (Control) Act, 1947 s. 51(1)(ii)]An exceptional or advantage; an exemption from some duty, or attendance, to which certain persons are entitled, from a supposition of law, that the stations they fill or the offices they are engaged in, are such as require all their care; and that, therefore, without this indulgence, it would be impracticable to execute such offices so advantageously as the public good requires.The separate privileges of either House of Parlia-ment are extensive, but they are at the same time uncertain and indefinite. Amongst those privileges are, the power of committing persons to prison; the power of publishing matters which, if not issuing from such high authority, might become the subject of proceedings in a Court of la...

Such detention

Such detention, refers to preventive detention and not to any period for which such detention is to continue because the decision about the period of detention can only be taken by the detaining authority, State of West Bengal v. Ashok Dey, (1972) 1 SCC 199; Pooran Lal v. Union of India, 1958 SCR 460. [See Constitution of India, Art. 22(a)(4)]The expression 'such detention' in Article 22(4)(a) of the Constitution refers to preventive detention and not to an period for which such detention should continue and s. 11(1) of the Preventive Detention Act does not contravene the provision of Article 22(4) (a) of the Constitution, Puranlal Lakhanpal v. Union of India, AIR 1958 SC 163: (1958) SCR 460. See also State of West Bengal v. Ashok Dey, AIR 1972 SC 1660....

To the extent of

To the extent of, the words 'to the extent of' in Article 13 do not import any idea of time. They only import the idea that the law maybe void either wholly or in part and that only such portions will be void as are inconsistent with Part III or have contravened Part III and no more, Mahendralal Jaini v. State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1963 SC 1019 (1029): (1963) Supp 1 SCR 912. [Constitution of India, Art. 13(1), (2)]...

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