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Mandate

Mandate [fr. mandatum, Lat.], a judicial command, charge, commission. Also, a bailment of goods, without reward, to be carried from place to place, or to have some act performed about them. The person employing is called...

Life micro-insurance product

Life micro-insurance product, means any term insurance contract with or without return of premium any endowment insurance contract or health insurance contract, with or without an accident benefit rider, either on individual or group basis, as...

Inter-State sale

Inter-State sale, if the movement of goods from one State to another is the result of a covenant or an incident of the contract of sale, then the sale is an inter-State sale, Union of India

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Institutions

Institutions. It was the object of Justinian to comprise in his Code and Digest, or Pandects, a complete body of law. But these works were not adapted to the purposes of elementary instruction, and the writings...

Offer

Offer is, in effect, a promise by the offeror to do or abstain from doing something, provided that the offeree will accept that offer and pay or promise to pay the 'price' of the offer. The...

Frauds, Statute of

Frauds, Statute of, 29 Car. 2, c. 3 (A.D. 1676). This famous statute is said to have been famed by Sir Matthew Hale, Lord Keeper Guilford, and Sir Leoline Jenkins, an eminent civilian. Lord Nottingham used...

Object

Object, the word object would mean the purpose and design which is the object of the contract, if it is opposed to public policy which tends to defeat any provision of law or purpose of law,...

Sale in the course of inter-State trade

sale to be deemed to have taken place in the course of inter-State trade or commerce, that the covenant regarding inter-State movement must be specified in the contract itself. It would be enough if the movement was

Penalty

a payment stipulated as in terrorem of the offending party: the essence of liquidated damages is a genuine covenanted pre-estimate of loss, Dunlop Co. v. New Garage Co., 1915 AC 79; approved in Widnes Foundry (1925) Ltd.

Perished goods

Perished goods. 'Where there is a contract for the sale of specific goods and the goods without the knowledge of the seller have perished at the time when the contract is made, the contract is void,'...

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