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Pasteurization

A process devised by Pasteur for preventing or checking fermentation in fluids such

Phonotypy

A method of phonetic printing of the English language as devised by Mr Pitman in which nearly all the ordinary letters

Occupancy

an incorporeal or corporeal hereditament, may in all cases be devised by will, and, by s. 6, that if no disposition

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Money counts

causes of action, that certain concise forms of counts were devised for suing upon them. These were, before the Judicature Acts,

Shebaitship

the usufruct depending again on usage and custom, if not devised by the founder. Shebaitship being property, it devolves like any

Outlawry

is civiliter mortuus. He can hold no property given or devised to him; and all the property which he held before

Passive trust

by the trustee, the courts endeavoured in the case of devises by will land executory contracts to give by construction the

Poinding

defined to be 'the diligence (process) which the law has devised for transferring the property of the debtor to the creditor

Police reforms

or mala fide interference with police functions has to be devised, Prakash Singh v. Union of India, (2006) 8 SCC 1.

Power

executor, to sell an estate, to whom no estate was devised, and a statutory power to sell estates, as in the

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