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Domicile

subject dying in such foreign State, and that no subject of such foreign state dying here, shall be deemed to have acquired a domicile in the place of his death unless he shall have resided there for

Doom

Doom [fr. dom, A.S., judgment; fr. deman, to deem or form a judgment], judicial sentence; judgment.

Dower

of the estate of the trustee, to the purchaser and his heirs. An equitable bar of dower was deemed sufficient as between vendor and purchaser; as if a wife contract before marriage to relinquish her dower, either

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Drinking-fountains

Drinking-fountains may be established in London by sanitary authorities in such convenient and suitable situations as they may deem proper under s. 51 of the (English) Public Health (London) Act, 1891 (54 & 55 Vict. c. 76),

Emblements

those vegetable productions of the soil which are annually produced by the labour of the cultivator. They are deemed personal property, and pass as such to the executor or administrator of the occu-pier, whether he were the

Emigrant conveyance

that any conveyance convey-ing emigrants to such place as may be depicted in the notification shall not be deemed to be an emigrant conveyance. [Emigration Act, 1983 (31 of 1983), s. 2(1)(e)]

Entrenched clause

uniting two or more States etc., and (c) abolish or create the legislative Council of State, is not deemed to be an amendment of the Constitution. Constitution of India, Art. 4 and 169. In India, any party

Episcopal and congregationalism

authority vests in the congregation whereas in the latter it is controlled by the bishop as he is deemed to be successor of the apostle, Most Rev. P.M.A. Metropolitan v. Moran Mar Marthoma, AIR 1995 SC 2001

Essence

thing or matter. As to the construction of stipulations which according to the rules of equity are not deemed of the essence of a contract, see (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 41, replacing Jud. Act,

Exhausted paper

paper on which no further preference is recorded for a continuing candidate; provided that a paper shall be deemed to be exhausted in any case in which-- (a) the names of two or more candidates whether continuing

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