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Chattels or catals
Chattels or catals [fr. Catalla, Lat.; chatel, Fr.; chaptel, Old Fr.]. The word 'catalla' among the Normans primarily signified only beasts of husbandry or, as they are still called, cattle, but in a secondary sense the...
Act of Parliament
held in which the statute was passed, together with the chapter or particular Act, according to its numerical order, e.g., 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 74, the chapter, if the Act be a local or personal
Code
Code, a collection or system of laws. The collection of laws and constitutions made by order of the Emperor Justinian is distinguished by the appellation of 'The Code' by way of eminence. See CIVIL
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Institutions
succession, are called bonorum possessio; acquisition by abrogation; the adjudication of the goods of a deceased person, in order to make the enfranchisement of slaves effectual; and the two abrogated successions, per bonorum venditionem and ex Senatus-Consulto
Damages
Damages, constitute the sum of money claimed or adjudged to be paid in compensation for loss or injury sustained, the value estimated in money, of something lost or withheld, Divisional Controller K.S.R.T.C. v. Mahadeva Shetty, (2003)...
Constructive notice
his notice suggesting the existence of such title or claim; (c) if he deliberately refrains from inquiry in order to avoid notice. See Halsbury, L.E., vol. 13, and the person affected with constructive notice takes, if at
Office of profit
must have an existence apart from the person, who may hold it. Cases are known, in which, in order to make use of the Special knowledge, talent, skill or experience of certain persons, posts are created, which
Preamble
potentiality of influencing the judgment of the detaining authority in the matter of passing or not passing the order of detention, Sanju Dora v. State of Orissa, 1995 Cr LJ 3150 (3151) (Ori).
Consideration
any matter by the Income-tax Officer in the process of assessment. There must be something in the assessment order to show that the Income-tax Officer applied his mind to the particular subject-matter or the particular source of
Hire
deprive the hirer of the thing; to warrant the title and right of possession to the hirer, in order to enable him to use the thing, or to perform the service; to keep the thing in suitable
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