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Tenure, cannot be equated with 'terms and con-ditions of services' or payment of gravity or pension. Tenure when followed by words of office, means term of office, Punjab University v. Khalsa College, Amritsar, AIR 1971 P&H 479: 1971 Cur LJ 334.Means a right, term, or mode of holding lands or tenements in subordination to a superior; in fendal times, real property was held predominantly as part of a tenure system, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1481.Tenure, the mode of holding property. The only tenures in land now existing with a few unimpor-tant exceptions are (1) free and common socage in fee-simple, including enfranchised copyhold, which is subject to paramount incidents; and (2) a term of years absolute (see LAND). The idea of tenure or holding is said to derive from feudalism, which separated the dominium directum (the dominion of the soil), which it placed mediately, or immediately, in the Crown, from the dominium utile (the possessory title), the right to use the profits ...
Malediction
Malediction, A curse connected with the donation of property to a Church and applicable against any one attempting to violate the Church's rights, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 968.A curse such as was anciently annexed to donations of lands made to churches or religious houses, against those who should violate their rights....
Mahimai
Mahimai, means religious purpose, Commissioner of Income Tax (Central) v. Bijli Cotton Mills (P) Ltd., AIR 1979 SC 346: (1979) 1 SCC 496: (1979) 2 SCR 241.A Mahimai is a donation for charity consisting of a fixed percentage on the sales or profits on commercial transactions done by the donor, State of Madras v. Thuthukudi Kozhumbu Vyaparikalin Thuthukudi Sri Subramaniaswami Mahimi Paripalana Sangam, AIR 1962 Mad 48 (49)....
Foreign contribution
Foreign contribution, means the donation, delivery or transfer made by any foreign source--(i) of any article, not being an article given to a person as a gift for his personal use, if the market value, in India, of such article, on the date of such gift, does not exceed one thousand rupees.(ii) of any currency, whether Indian or foreign;(iii) of any foreign security as defined in clause (i) of s. 2 of the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1973. [Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 1976 (49 of 1976), s. 2(1)(c)]...
Defendemus
Defendemus (we will defend), a word used in grants and donations, which binds the donor and his heirs to defend the donee, if anyone go about to lay any incumbrance on the thing given other than what is contained in the deed of donation, Bract, 1. 2, c. xvi....
Enlargement or abridgement of time
Enlargement or abridgement of time, Order VI, r. 2(14) of the Supreme Court Rules, 1966 speaks of applications for enlargement or abridgement of time. Here the words 'enlargement or abridgement of time' take in applications for enlargement of time appointed by the Rules. The significant feature in the Rules is that applications for condonation of delay in filing special leave petition are excepted from the business of a Chamber Judge. The natural presumption is that but for the exception the Rule would have included also applications for condonation of delay in filing special leave petitions. Any application for con-donation of delay in filing petition of appeal is included in application for enlargement or abridge-ment of time, C.I.T., Bombay City v. R.H. Pandit, Managing Trustees of Trust, Bombay (1974) 2 SCC 627: AIR 1974 SC 2269: (1975) 2 SCR 7....
Mortuary
A sort of ecclesiastical heriot a customary gift claimed by and due to the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner It seems to have been originally a voluntary bequest or donation intended to make amends for any failure in the payment of tithes of which the deceased had been guilty...
manual
manual : involving or as if involving use of the hands ;specif : of, relating to, or being a gift of a corporeal movable object that is actually delivered [a donation] man·u·al·ly adv ...
Donee
The person to whom a gift or donation is made...
beneficiary
beneficiary pl: -ries : a person or entity (as a charity or estate) that receives a benefit from something: as a : the person or entity named or otherwise entitled to receive the principal or income or both from a trust compare settlor, trustee contingent beneficiary : a beneficiary that may receive proceeds from a trust depending on the occurrence of a specified event (as the death of another beneficiary) income beneficiary : a beneficiary that according to the provisions of a trust is to receive income but not the principal of the trust NOTE: A trust may provide for income to be paid to someone (as a spouse) for his or her lifetime and then for payment of the principal to another person. A trustee is sometimes allowed to distribute some of the principal of the trust to an income beneficiary when necessary for the support of the beneficiary if support of the beneficiary was the purpose of the trust. b : the person or entity named by the insured of a life insurance policy to r...
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