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Extinguishment

Bac. Ab. 628. (2) Extinguishment of Easement. By statute, release, non-user, unity of seisin, or alteration of the dominant tenement; the term is sometimes used to denote the interruption but for which an inchoate right would become

Gas

Gas. See the (English) Gasworks Clauses Act, 1847, and other Acts set out in Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Gas.' By s. 161 of the (English) Public Health Act, 1875 (see also (English) Road Traffic Act, 1934 (24...

GATT-astrophe

GATT-astrophe, Catastrophe caused by the GATT agreement. '...we are to suffer foreign domination are all on our way to recolonisation. This I call is GATT-astrophe.' [Justice Iyer, Off the Bench, Universal

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Handicap horse race

horse-racing. It is a game of skill. Even in a handicap race-despite the assignment of imposts the skill dominates. In any case an occasional handicap race in a race-club cannot change the natural horse-racing from a game

Goodwill

in different businesses in the same trade, and while one element may preponderate in one business another may dominate in another business. And yet because of its intangible nature, it remains insubstantial in form and nebulous in

Intent to annoy

including also the probability or something else than the causing of such intimidation, insult or annoyance, being the dominant intention which prompted the entry, (AIR 1964 SC 986); Rash Behari Chatterjee v. Fagu Shaw, AIR 1970 SC

Osmanli

A Turkish official one of the dominant tribe of Turks loosely any Turk

Moneycracy

Moneycracy, the rule of money. 'In the name of democracy, moneycracy dominates' [Justice Iyer, Off the Bench, Universal Law Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., p. 151]. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)

Motor vehicles adapted

the definition must be on the words 'use upon road' as those words would denote the principal or dominant use and not where it may move incidentally, Goodyear India Ltd. v. Union of India, AIR 1997 SC

Obscene

sex or that if they read any references to sex in what is written whether that is the dominant theme or not they would be affected, would be to require authors to write books only for the

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