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Lease and release

Act, 1845, s. 2 (see now L.P. Act, 1925, s. 51), the immediate freehold of corporeal tenements is deemed to lie in grant as well as in livery, and the conveyance by lease and release has thus

Vict. c. 97), provides that no promise to answer for the debt, etc., of another is to be deemed invalid to support an action, by reason that the consideration does not appear in writing (s. 3). By

Legal fiction

1981 SC 1. The Supreme Court thus while laying down the principles on the basis of which a deeming provision should be construed held 'a legal fiction must be limited to the purposes for which it is

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Licensed psychiatric hospital or licensed psychiatric nursing home

psychiatric nursing home, means a psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home, as the case may be, licensed, or deemed to be licensed, under this Act. [Mental Health Act, 1987 (14 of 1987), s. 2 (f)]

Heard and finally decided

Heard and finally decided, the proceeding either civil or criminal shall be deemed to continue to be pending until it is heard and finally decided, that is to say, in a

Fire

to any officer thereof, whether by means of a street fire alarm, statement, message, or otherwise, shall be deemed to be guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction, and shall, on conviction for such offence by

Gaming or gambling

the peace, at the general annual licensing meeting, may grant annual billiard licences to such persons as they deem fit to keep billiard tables and bagatelle boards, or the like. Penalties are imposed for keeping such tables

Exceptional grant

applicable in the case of demands for grants subject to such adaptations as the speaker, Lok Sabha, may deem to be necessary or expedient, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha, 10th Edn., 2002,

Lis mota

claim is founded (or, as it is called, post litem motam), which for that purpose is to be deemed the commencement of the lis mota.

Domesmen

Domesmen, judges of men appointed to doom and determine suits and controversies, hence, 'g deme, I deem or judge, Jac. Law Dict. see DAYSMEN

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