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Ruling Chief

Ruling Chief, the expression 'Ruling Chief' has not been defined in the Act and must therefore by understood as in common parlance. The meaning of the word 'ruler' as given in Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd...

Reredos

Reredos, an ornamental screen covering the wall at the altar, see Philpotts v. Boyd, (1876) LR 6 CP 435.

Ratification

such as trustees in bankruptcy or personal repre-sentatives who acquire title by relation, Kelner v. Baxter, LR 2 CP 174; and see also NOTICE TO QUIT. Omnis ratihabitio retrotrahitur et mandato 'quiparatur (Co. Litt. 207 a). As

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Presentation

name under their common seal. A patron may present himself, Walsh v. Bishop of Lincoln, (1875) LR 10 CP 518. The sale of the right of next presentation is invalidated by s. 1 of the Benefices Act,

Poorer and working classes

of the City of Jabalpur v. Kishan Lal, AIR 1966 SC 207 (209). [City of Jabalpur Corporation Act, CP and Berar Act, 1948 (3 of 1950), s. 277(1)]

Penalty

as it is to be gathered from the language they have used', Lea v. Whitaker, (1872) LR 8 CP p. 73, per Keating, J. The words are not conclusive; the essence of penalty is a payment stipulated

Payment on delivery

Payment on delivery, means that both acts are to be done simultaneously, Paynter v. James, LR 2 CP 348.

Seduction

servitium amisit, but no express contract of service need be proved; see Evans v. Walton, (1867) LR 2 CP 615. There must be a legal right or interest by the plaintiff in the services of the woman

Money Bill

in discharge of debts or payments for Commodities', Per Daling J., Moss v. Hancook, 1899 (2) QB 111) CP Cash. xxxx xx. But the word 'money' answers to the Barbarian's Latin word 'moneta', and is a genus

Nemo debet locupletar aliena jactura

ought to be enriched by another's loss.) Cited per Bovill, C.J., in Fletcher v. Alexnder, (1868) LR 3 CP 381.

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