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Pawn or Pledge
only, either may maintain an action against a stranger for any injury done to it, or for any conversion of it. Goods pawned are not liable to be taken in execution in an action against the pawnor,
Mixed questions of law and fact
of any general inference or conclusion to be drawn by a jury. All technical expressions, such as asportation, conversion, acceptance, etc., are, in their application, partly matters of law, partly matters of fact. See 6 East, 3;
For the purposes of this Act
to grant a ryotwari patta to a ryot under S. 11 of the Tamil Nadu Estates (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act, 1948 must be regarded as having been passed to achieve the purposes of the Act,
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Market overt
owner may lose his property by a sale in market overt, he still has his remedies, e.g., for conversion against the seller, Peer v. Humphrey, (1835) 2 Ad & El 495.
Maintenance
Rajeswari Ambal of Sri Dattatreya Mandiram v. District Board, AIR 1958 Mad 105 (106). [Madras Estate (Abolition and Conversion into Ryatwari), Act, 1948, s. 45] The word 'maintenance' in its ordinary parlance means and includes provision for
Legruita
Legruita, a fine for criminal conversation with a woman, Old. Records.
Legal entity
and distinct from its qualities and attributes and, while every legal person is necessarily a legal entity, the converse is not true, Ittiavira Thomas v. Sankaranarayanan Kesavan Nampori of Manakkattu, AIR 1964 Ker 144.
Law of Property Act, 1922
apart from the lord's consent of his rights to mines, minerals, franchises, fairs and sporting rights), and the conversion of perpetually renewable leaseholds into long terms. The other provisions of this Act, sometimes called Lord Birkenhead's Act
Laudibus (de) legum angli'
party, in France. Sir John was then made chancellor; and in that character he supposes himself holding a conversation with the young prince on the nature and excellence of the laws of England compared with the civil
Knowledge
there may be intention without knowledge, the consequence being desired but not fore-known as certain or even probable. Conversely there may be knowledge without intention, the consequence being fore-known as the inevitable concomitant of that which is
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