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Substantive crime

Substantive crime, means a crime that does not have as an element the performance of some other crime; a crime that is not dependant on another, United States v. Clay,

Goodwill

together the business and its assets as a whole and a going and developing concern. A variety of elements goes into its making, and its composition varies in different trades and in different businesses in the same

Sacramentum

a penalty to be paid to the offended deity, if the oath was found to be false, the Element of Roman Law, R.W. Lee, 4th Edn., 1956, p. 422.

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Required

signifies that mere desire on the part of the landlord is not enough but there should be an element of need and the landlord must show - the burden being upon him - that he genuinely requires

Requirement

Requirement, connotes that there should be an element of need, Bega Begum v. Abdul Ahad Khan, AIR 1979 SC 272. Requirement, coupled with the word reasonable

Requires

of the Bombay Rents Hotel and Lodging House Rates (Control) Act, 1947 means that there must be an element of need before a landlord can be said to 'require' premises for his own use and occupation. It

Requisition

acquisition, is of a temporary nature and though it may extend over some years, it has not the element of permanence, Commissioner of Income Tax v. Manna Ramji & Co., AIR 1973 SC 515 (518): (1973) 3

Requisition of property

the case of compulsory letting, there is a creation of relationship of landlord and tenant even though the element of compulsion is inherent in such arrangement, Ardeshir P. Banaji v. Union of India, AIR 1997 Bom 68.

Reside

residence or domicile; specifically, to be in residence, to have an abiding place, to be present as an element, to inhere as a quality to be vested as a right, Black's Law Dictionary, 5th Edn. See also

Residence

a given place for sometime, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1310. Residence must prima facie have an element of continuity or regularity in residence and would not mean an intermittent stay such as during the vacations,

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