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Public interest
to be retained in service while the services of the dishonest or the corrupt or who are almost dead wood, are to be dispensed with, State of Gujarat v. Suryakant Chunilal Shah, (1999) 1 SCC 529; see
Resurgent
Rising again as from the dead
Widower
Widower, one whose wife is dead. A condition in restraint of the second marriage, whether of a man or a woman, is valid, Allen
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Wealreaf
Wealreaf, the robbing of a dead man in his grave.
Vadium mortuum
Vadium mortuum, a mortgage or dead-pledge by which the pledgor loses the security and its fruits or interest which were taken by the pledgee
Transfer of Land Acts (English)
Vict. c. 87), were passed to facilitate the transfer of land in England. The Acts were practically a dead letter: see Report of Select Committee of House of Commons on Land Titles and Transfers, 1879. Compulsory registration
Tax admitted
be placed on a provision which would have the effect of making the provision either otios or a dead letter. Further, to find out the true meaning of the expression 'tax admitted' one must take into consideration
Statute Law Revision Acts
'any preambles' [but see that title] 'to an act, or introductory words to a s., which though not dead were practically inoperative'; and the two Statute Law Revision Acts of that year, which repeal such matter for
Shroud-stealing
Shroud-stealing. If any one, in taking up a dead body, steal the shroud or other apparel, it will be felony; for the property therein remains with the
Short-ford
for the same, he is to come to the tenement, and there take a stone, or some other dead thing of the said tenement, and bring it before the mayor and bailiffs; and this he must do
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