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Secularization

The act of rendering secular or the state of being rendered secular conversion from regular or monastic to secular conversion from religious to lay or secular possession and uses as the

Wrongful detention and wrongful confinement

a breach of contract. If the bailee or finder subsequently disposes of the goods, he is guilty of conversion, but the wrongful detention then comes to an end and is swallowed up in the conversion, Dhian Singh

Election

converted to take the property in its unconverted state and thus put an end to the trust for conversion. See CONVERSION. It means any election, by whatever means held under any law for the purpose of selecting

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Friendly societies

of Friendly Societies. The Act was amended in 1876 by 39 & 40 Vict. c. 32 as to conversion of Friendly Societies into branches, and other matters; in 1879 by 42 Vict. c. 9 as to the

No cause for such refusal

refusal. Therefore when an application is filed by a shareholder for an order directing the company to grant conversion of partly paid-up shares into fully paid-up shares and the company sets up some cause declining to carry

Transubstantiation

Bread and Wine in the Supper of our Lord' (Art. 28 of the Thirtynine Articles of Religion); 'a conversion of the whole substance of the Bread into the Body and of the whole substance of the Wine

Trust for sale

the proceeds devolved upon the beneficiaries as personalty unless they elected to take the property as realty (see CONVERSION), except that upon a lapse of the devise of realty in the testator's lifetime the property resulted to

Locutory

A room for conversation especially a room in monasteries where the monks were allowed to converse

Ebullition

A boiling or bubbling up of a liquid the motion produced in a liquid by its rapid conversion into vapor

Convertend

Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion so called in its relation to itself as converted after which process it is termed the converse See

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