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Lands and buildings

is composed, the ground upon which its walls stand and the ground embraced within those walls'. That appears correct meaning of 'building', D.G. Gouse and Co. (Agents) Pvt. Ltd. v. State of Kerala, AIR 1980 SC 271:

Legal fiction

field', K.S. Dharmadatan v. Central Government, AIR 1979 SC 1495: (1979) 4 SCC 204. Legal fiction pre-supposes the correctness of the state of facts on which it is based and all the consequences which flow from that

Maintenance

Das v. Chander Kishore, AIR 1969 Del 235 (244). The English word 'maintenance' is not, strictly speaking, a correct equivalent of the Malayalam word 'chilavu' of which it is generally understood to be a translation. The term

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Mirror des justices

author terms them, of the Common Law, proposing, at the same time, what he considers to be desirable corrections. He does the same with Magna Charta, the Statutes of Merton and Marlbridge, and some principal Acts in

Misdirection

essential to the prosecution for the defence case in order to help the jury to come to a correct verdict may also in certain circumstances amount to a misdirection. But, in either case, every misdirection or non-direction

Mistake apparent on the record

from the record. The power of the officers mentioned in s. 154 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 to correct 'any mistake apparent from the record' is undoubtedly not more than of the High Court to entertain a

Mistake or an error apparent on the face of the record

under Order 47 Rule 1 CPC it is not permissible for an erroneous decision to be 'reheard and corrected'. A review petition, has a limited purpose and cannot be allowed to be 'an appeal in disguise', Parsion

Mixed actions

called, but they are now abolished, except the action of ejectment, 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27. Correctly speaking, however, ejectment is in its form a species of the personal action of trespass. Steph. Plead. App.

Protective home

not include-- (i) a shelter where [undertrials] may be kept in pursuance of this Act, or (ii) a corrective institution. [Immoral Traffic (Preven-tion) Act, 1956 (104 of 1956), s. 2 (g)]

Monition

answer contempt charges. 3. A formal Notice from a bishop demanding that an offence within the clergy be corrected, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1022. Monition, a summons or citation; a direction by an ecclesiastical judge

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