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Rolls of Parliament
registers of the proceedings of our old Parliaments. In these rolls are likewise a great many decisions of difficult points of law which were frequently, informer times, referred to the determination of this Supreme Court by the
Locality
sought to be acquired. Otherwise the word 'locality' is a word of such indefinite import that it is difficult to conceive of any locality in any particular village being notified for acquisition. Therefore when a locality in
Retrenchment
and if the words 'for any reason whatsoever' are understood to mean what they plainly say it is difficult to escape the conclusion that the expression 'retrenchment' must include every termination of the service of a work-man
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Rescript
Rescript, the answer of the Roman emperor when consulted by a particular person on some difficult question; it is equivalent to an edict or decree; a counterpart. A judge's written order to a court
Request
the government to a subordinate authority is tantamount to a positive direction or order and it will be difficult for the subordinate authority to disregard the same, Chintapally Agency Taluk Arrack Sales Co-operative Societies, AIR 1977 SC
Cabinet
the responsibility of forming a government if the government resigns or is defeated. His task though not so difficult as that of the Prime Minister is of sufficiently great public importance because he has to maintain a
Per capita
being one of nine grandsons. Whether legatees are to take per stirpes or per capita is often a difficult question of construction; for the authorities, see Theobald on Wills; and see the Administration of Estates Act, 1925,
Paramountcy
of the States chose to exercise. But that paramountcy lapsed with the Indian Independence Act, 1947. It is difficult to conceive of the government of a democratic Republic exercising against its citizens 'paramountcy' claimed to be inherited
Pactum de quota litis
Pactum de quota litis, an agreement by which a creditor promised to pay a portion of a debt difficult to recover, to a person who undertook to recover it, Civ. Law.
Office of profit
certain persons, posts are created, which exist only for so long as they hold them. It will be difficult to hold that such persons are not holders of offices. The expression 'office of profit' means an office
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