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Appointment of new trustees

additional trustees. S. 40 provides for the vesting of the trust property in the new trustees by a declaration in the deed of appointment or, deeds of appointment executed after 1925, no express vesting declaration appears, by

Deponent

Deponent [fr. depono, Lat., to lay down], a person who makes an affidavit; a witness; one who gives his testimony in a Court of justice. The person who made an affidavit

Dilatory pleas

incapacity to proceed with the suit; or pleas in abatement, showing some matter for abatement or quashing the declaration. These pleas must have been verified by affidavit or otherwise, and pleaded within four days from delivery of

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Discovery

50. By (English) R. S.C. 1883, Ord. XXXI., it is provided that any party may, without filing any affidavit, apply to a judge for an order directing any other party to the action to make discovery on

Election

wide connotation commencing from the Presidential notification calling upon the electorate to elect and culminating in the final declaration of the returned candidate, Mohinder Singh Gill v. Chief Election Commissioner, (1978) 1 SCC 405: AIR 1978 SC

Extent

debt is in danger of being lost, the extent will be issued without a scire facias upon an affidavit of circumstances; and after the sheriff's return, the debtor, if he dispute the debt, or a third person,

Letters-patent, or letters overt

or sent by post to, the Patent Office in the prescribed manner. (3) The application must contain a declaration to the effect that the applicant is in possession of an invention, whereof he, or in the case

Plea

Plea [fr. plee, Fr.]. this was the name of a defendant's answer of fact to a plaintiff's declaration; anciently a suit or action. Pleas were divided into common pleas, relating to civil causes, and pleas of

Statutory Declarations Act, 1835

Statutory Declarations Act, 1835 (English) (5 & 6 Wm. 4, c. 62), which substitutes declarations for oaths in a large

Perjury

deals with false statements on oath otherwise than in a judicial proceeding, and s. 3 with false oaths, declarations, notices, etc., with reference to marriage; an offence under either of these sections is a misdemeanour and punishable

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