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Estate

AIR 1955 SC 504. [Jaipur State Grants Land Tenures Act, 1947 (1 of 1947), s. 4(7)] The amount, degree, nature and quality of a person's interest in land or other property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7the Edn., p.

Misprision

Misprision [fr. mepris, Fr.], neglect, negligence, or oversight. All such high offences as are under the degree of capital, but nearly bordering thereon, are misprisions; and it is said that a misprision is contained in

Murder

But the use of these labels for describing the nature of the murder is indicative only of the degree of the Court's aversion for the nature or the manner is indicative only of the degree of the

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Principal and accessory (or accessory)

Principal and accessory (or accessory). (1) Principals in offences are of two degrees: (a) of the first degree, i.e., the actual perpetrators of the crime; (b) of the second degree, i.e.,

Rent

due by the executors of a tenant was, before 32 & 33 Vict. c. 46, of a higher degree than simple contract debts, and of equal degree with specialty debts; but that Act has abolished the priority,

Wali

Wali,'has the same meaning as 'saint'. It is not confined to the saint of the highest degree but includes saints of a lower degree, Advocate-General of Bombay v. Yusuf Ali Ebrahim, AIR 1921 Bom 338.

Impracticability

a concept different from 'impossibility' for while the latter is absolute, the former introduces at all events some degree of reason and involves some regard for practice. 'Impracticable' presupposes that the action is 'possible' but owing to

Statutory body

and owe its existence to a statute, Sukhdev Singh v. Bhagatram Sardar Singh, AIR 1975 SC 1331; Vaish Degree College v. Lakshmi Narain, (1976) 2 Lab LJ 163: 1976 Lab IC 576: (1976) 1 Lab LN 474:

Dissenters

(35 & 36 Vict. c. 26), has abolished the University Tests, and dissenters are enabled to take any degree (other than a divinity degree) in any of the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, or Durham.

Coolness

The state of being cool a moderate degree of cold a moderate degree or a want of passion want of ardor zeal or affection calmness

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