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Waste
Waste [fr. vastum, Lat.], any spoil or destruction in houses, gardens, trees, etc., by a tenant; as to what acts amount to waste, see Co. Litt. 53 a. It is either (1) legal, sub-divided into (a)...
Marriage
Marriage. Marriage as understood in Christendom is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others, Hyde v. Hyde, 1866 LR 1 P&D 130. Where a marriage in...
Deposition
Deposition: (1) Depriving of a dignity, etc. (2) The act of giving public testimony, technically, the evidence put down in writing by way of answer to questions. It is an incontrovertible rule at Common Law, that...
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Sale of Goods Act, 1893
Sale of Goods Act, 1893 (English) (56 & 57 Vict. c. 71), codifying the law of the sale of goods, in the same fashion as the law of bills of exchange, promissory notes, and cheques was...
Means and includes
Means and includes, The definition which consists of two separate parts which specify what the expression means and also what it includes is obviously meant to be exhaustive. As Lord Watson observed in Dilworth v. Commissioner...
Pasture
Pasture, land on which cattle feed. See Norton on Deeds. The laying down permanent pasture with the written consent of the landlord is an improvement for which a tenant is entitled to compensation on quitting by...
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...
Procedure established by law
Procedure established by law, does not mean due process of law, A.K. Gopalan v. State of Madras, AIR 1980 SC 27. In India as in UK, the legislature is free to lay down any procedure, within...
Punishment
Punishment, is the penalty for transgressing the law, Jowitts Dictionary of English Law, Vol. 2 (2nd Edn. by John Burke). Punishment, the penalty for transgressing the law: in England usually left within very wide limits to...
Qualifications, eligibility
Qualifications, eligibility, the words 'eligibility' and 'qualification' have been used interchange-ably, and in some cases a distinction has been made between the two words - 'eligibility' connoting the minimum criteria for selection that may be laid...
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