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Dispatcher

One who dispatches...


Dispatchful

Bent on haste intent on speedy execution of business or any task indicating haste quick as dispatchful looks...


Dispatchment

The act of dispatching...


Dispatch, or despatch

Dispatch, or despatch [fr. despescher, Fr., to send away quickly, to discharge], a message, letter, or order sent with speed on affairs of State....


Issue (despatch)

Issue (despatch), the meaning of the word 'issued' has to be gathered from the context in which it is used. Meanings of the word 'issue' given in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary include: 'to give exit to; to send forth, or allow to pass out; to let out; ... to give or send out authoritatively or officially; to send forth or deal out formally or publicly; to emit, put into circulation'. The issue of a charge-sheet, therefore, means its dispatch to the government servant, and this act is complete the moment steps are taken for the purpose, by framing the charge-sheet and dispatching it to the government servant, the further fact of its actual service on the govern-ment servant not being a necessary part of its requirement, Delhi Development Authority v. H.C. Khurana, (1993) 3 SCC 196: AIR 1993 SC 1488 (1493)....


Possibility on a possibility

Possibility on a possibility. Lord Coke lays it down as a rule that the event on which a remainder is to depend must be a common possibility, and not a double possibility, or a possibility on a possibility, which the law will not allow. Thus he tells us that the chance that a man and a woman, both married to different persons, shall themselves marry one another is but a common possibility. But the chance that a married man shall have a son named Geoffrey is stated to be a double or remote possibility; see Williams on Real Property; 2 Rep. 51 a; 10 Rep. 50 b; Co. Litt. 184 a. The idea that there cannot be a possibility and a possibility seems to have been a conceit invented by Popham, C.J., but it was never really intelligible, Whitby v. Mitchell, (1890) 44 Ch D p. 92, per Lindley, LJ, and never applied to trusts of personal estate [Re Bowles, (1902) 2 Ch 650]. It gave rise, however, to the rule, now well settled in regard to limitations and trusts of realty created by instruments comin...


allegata

allegata [New Latin, plural of allegatum, from Medieval Latin allegare to allege, from Latin, to dispatch, adduce in support] : facts alleged or allegations made in a pleading compare probata ...


Courier

A messenger sent with haste to convey letters or dispatches usually on public business...


Despatch

Same as Dispatch...


Dispatch

To dispose of speedily as business to execute quickly to make a speedy end of to finish to perform...


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