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Embodiment

The act of embodying the state of being embodied...


Embodier

One who embodies...


Embody

To form into a body to invest with a body to collect into a body a united mass or a whole to incorporate as to embody ones ideas in a treatise...


Record

Record, a memorial or remembrance; an authentic testimony in writing contained in rolls of parchment, and preserved in a Court of record. The public records of the kingdom are placed under the superintendence of the Master of the Rolls, and a Record Office established by the (English) Public Record Office Act, 1838 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 94). The (English) Public Record Office (commonly called the Rolls Office) is a large building in Chancery Lane, London, and was opened in 1902.There are three kinds of records, viz.: (1) judicial, as an attainder; (2) ministerial, on oath, being an office or inquisition found; (3) by way of conveyance, as a deed enrolled. As to ancient public records generally, see Hubback on Succession, pp. 607 et seq.The Record Offices of the Supreme Court are now merged in the Central Office there. See (English) R.S.C. Ord. LXI.Also the general name given to (a) pleadings and subsequent orders and recorded matters in an action (by R. S. C. 1883, Ord. XXXVI. R. 30, the par...


contract

contract [Latin contractus from contrahere to draw together, enter into (a relationship or agreement), from com- with, together + trahere to draw] 1 : an agreement between two or more parties that creates in each party a duty to do or not do something and a right to performance of the other's duty or a remedy for the breach of the other's duty ;also : a document embodying such an agreement see also accept, bargain, breach, cause, consent, consideration, duty, meeting of the minds, obligation, offer, performance, promise, rescind, social contract, subcontract Uniform Commercial Code in the Important Laws section NOTE: Contracts must be made by parties with the necessary capacity (as age or mental soundness) and must have a lawful, not criminal, object. Except in Louisiana, a valid contract also requires consideration, mutuality of obligations, and a meeting of the minds. In Louisiana, a valid contract requires the consent of the parties and a cause for the contract in addition to c...


Law

Law [fr. lage, lagea, or lah, Sax.; loi, Fr.; legge, Ital.; lex, fr. ligo, Lat., to bind], a rule of action to which men are obliged to make their conduct conformable. A command, enforced by some sanction, to acts or forbearances of a class: see Austin's Jurisprudence; 1 Bl. Com. 38. A principle of conduct may be observed habitually by an individual or a class. When sufficiently formulated or defined to be observed uniformly by the whole of a class it may become a custom; or it may be imposed on all individuals who consent or are unable to resist its application and the sanction or penalty which is imposed for non-compliance, and in that case it becomes a law. If, in addition, the law and its sanction are imposed by, or by authority of a sovereign, the law becomes 'positive' (see Austin's Jurisprudence). Short of positive law the principle may be called a moral or social law. Generally speaking, jurisprudence is concerned only with positive law, and law in its ordinary legal sense mean...


Natural justice

Natural justice, the aim of the rules of natural justice is to secure justice or to put it negatively to prevent miscarriage of justice. These rules can operate only in areas not covered by any law validly made. In other words they supplant the rules of natural justice which are not embodied rules. What particular rule of natural justice should apply to a given case must depend to a great extent on the facts and circumstances of that case, the frame-work of the law under which the enquiry is held and the constitution of the Tribunal pointed for the purpose, A.K. Kraipak v. Union of India, AIR 1970 SC 150: (1969) 2 SCC 262.Historically, 'natural justice' has been used in a way 'which implies the existence of moral principles of self-evidence and unarguable truth'. In course of time, judges nurtured in the traditions of British jurisprudence, often involved it in conjunction with a reference to 'equity and good conscience'. Legal experts of earlier generations did not draw any distinctio...


Public records

Public records, includes:(i) any document, manuscript and file,(ii) any microfilm, microfiche and facsimile copy of a document,(iii) any reproduction of images embodied is such microfilm (whether enlarged or not), and(iv) any other material produce by a computer or by any other device, of any records creating agency. [Maharashtra Public Records Act, 2005, s. 2(g)]Public records, includes:(i) any document, manuscript and file;(ii) any microfilm microfiche and facsimile copy of a document;(iii) any reproduction of images embodied in such microfilm (whether enlarged or not); and(iv) any other material produced by a computer or by any other device of any records creating agency. [Public Records Act, 1993 (69 of 1993), s. 2 (e)]The general Records of the Realm are in the custody of the Master of the Rolls (see RECORD), and may be proved by a copy purporting to be carried by the deputy keeper of these Records [see the (English) Public Record Office Acts, 1838-1898]. As to public documents, s...


agreement

agreement 1 a : the act or fact of agreeing [by mutual ] b : unity of opinion, understanding, or intent ;esp : the mutual assent of contracting parties to the same terms [if they reach ] NOTE: Under common law, agreement is a necessary element of a valid contract. Under Uniform Commercial Code section 1-201(3), agreement is the bargain of the contracting parties as represented explicitly by their language or implicitly by other circumstances (as a course of dealings). 2 a : an expression (as a settlement, covenant, or contract) of the intent or willingness of two or more parties to bind at least one to terms usually determined by negotiation [an must be sufficiently definite before a court can enforce it "J. D. Calamari and J. M. Perillo"] b : the language or instrument embodying such an expression [signed the ] ...


chose

chose [Anglo-French, literally, thing, from Old French, from Latin causa legal case, reason, cause] : a piece of personal property chose in action : a right to something (as payment of a debt or damages for injury) that can be recovered in a lawsuit ;also : a document (as a check or stock certificate) embodying such a right chose in possession : something that is in one's actual possession or can be possessed ...


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