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Warrant of Attorney

in the presence of a solicitor acting on behalf of the person signing and explaining the consequences and effect of the warrant, and filed at the Central Office (Bills of Sales Department) of the Supreme Court within … 6, every five years. see LAND CHARGES. If a warrant of attorney be obtained by fraud, duress, or misrepresentation, or upon illegal consideration, the Court will order it to be delivered up to be cancelled, and will

Alien

married women and infant children, loss of British Nationality, the status of aliens, and procedure and evidence. The effect of the Act is shortly as follows: By s. 1 the following persons are deemed natural-born British subjects:-- … of persons previously naturalized, and s. 7 empowers the Secretary of State to revoke certificates obtained by false representations or in the case of a person who has communicated or traded with an enemy or within specified

Fraud

be described as an infraction of the rules of fair dealing. For the action at law intention and representation (q.v.) are material. In equity an act or its consequences to the person aggrieved may be of greater … Deptt., (1983) 1 All ER 765] that it is dangerous to introduce maxims of common law as to effect of fraud while determining fraud in relation to statutory law. In Pankaj Bhargava [Pankaj Bhargava v. Mohinder Nath,

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London, Port of

being members of Corporation) .....1 By the Trinity House ....1 (6) With a view to providing for the representation of labour on the Port Authority, one of the members of the Port Authority appointed by the Minister … now constitute and shall, from time to time constitute the Port Authority, shall notwithstanding the repeal of enactments effected by this Act, continue and be a body corporate by the name of 'the Port of London Authority,

Cinematograph

Williams & Harris on the Act of 1909, and see PATENT; COPYRIGHT; QUOTA. Includes any apparatus for the representation of moving pictures or series of pictures. [Cinematograph Act, 1952 (37 of 1952), s. 2 (c)] VCR/VCP are … for projecting in rapid succession on a screen a series of instantaneous photographs so as to give the effect of motion (The Concise Oxford Dict.). The (English) Cinematograph Act, 1909, provides that an exhibition of pictures or

Statutory Rules and Orders

empower the Sovereign in Council, some Govern-ment Department, or Courts of Justice, to make rules, having the same effect as the statute under which they are made, to regulate details left unprovided for by such statute. Thus, … draft by any 'public body' interested, and for the consideration by the authority making the rules of any representations or suggestions made in writing by such public body to such authority. The exceptions are: Certain rules made

Voluntarily

Voluntarily, a person is said to cause an effect 'voluntarily' when he causes it by means whereby he intended to cause it, or by means which, at … act, and did not act, in performance of a legal duty, not due to coercion, or fraud, or misrepresentation, or mistake, Abdul Salam v. Union of India, AIR 1969 All 223.

Insurance

of the insured must exist (a) marine insurance, at the time of loss; (b) life, at time of effecting the insurance; (c) fire, through-out the period insured. Insurance generally provide either against risks at sea, or losses … life in his wife, Griffiths v. Flemming, (1909) 1 KB 805. Money paid as premiums and obtained by misrepresentation of a company's agents can be recovered, Refuge Assurance Co. v. Kettlewell, 1909 AC 243. Consult Porter, Bunyon

Trial

AIR 1996 SC 1340 (1346): (1996) 4 SCC 127. (ii) The word 'trial' in s. 98 of the Representation of People Act, 1951 means the entire proceeding before the Tribunal from the reference to it by the … absence of the judge; but in a criminal trial he must be present. In a criminal trial the effect of the pleadings is stated to the jury by the clerk of the Court, except in a case

Election

Parliament. Writs for holding elections are issued after the Parliament is dissolved. Procedure for elections is governed by Representation of People's Act, 1949, The Office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth, Wilding & Philip Laundry, … doctrine of election is founded on the rule that a person who takes under an instrument must give effect to every part of it. Thus, if a testator devises his own estate to A and A's estate

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