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Visitor

or comes to a particular person or place 2. A person appointed to visit, inspect inquire into, and correct corporate irregularities, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.

Wager

lost bets paid by him, in defiance of a revocation of the authority to make them; but the correctness of this decision was much questioned, and the law has been since altered by the Gaming Act, 1892,

Warsha

Warsha, the word 'warsha' (to be correctly written as 'worasa') which means descendants or heirs (vide p. 134 of Forbes's Hindustani-English Dictionary; p. 1449 of

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Regularly kept in the course of business

Regularly kept in the course of business, the roughest memoranda of accounts kept generally according to the most elementary system are ad-missible but would have no weight, Kesheo Rao v. Ganesh, AIR 1926 Nag 407. Account...

Qabzadar

was in old settlement decrees frequently used loosely to cover either under-proprietary rights or occupancy rights. But the correct intention in each case has to be determined by a careful study of the judgment in question, on

Henghen

Henghen, a prison; a house of correction

Misuse of power or misapplication of power

application of power' or a 'detournement de puvoir' (as it is called in French Administrative Law), are terms correctly employed to describe the use of a power in this illegal fashion. The exercise of every power, whatever

Intent to annoy

Intent to annoy, the correct position in law may, be stated thus: In order to establish that the entry on the property was

Interpretation of items in Tariff Schedule

Tariff Schedule, where no definition is provided in the statute itself, as in this case, for ascertaining the correct meaning of a fiscal entry reference to a dictionary is not always safe as it gives all the

Justified by law

adequate reasons sufficiently supported by credible evidence, when weighed by unprejudiced mind, guided by common sense and by correct rules of law. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary assigns this meaning for 'justification': The showing in court that

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