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Emergency legislation

Emergency legislation, the body of Statutes, Pro-clamations, Orders in Council, Rules, Regulations, and Notifications passed or made in consequence of the European crisis of August, 1914, and the ensuing state of war....


Freedom of arrest

Freedom of arrest, is the privilege which is limited to civil cases and does not extend to criminal cases or emergency legislation, Commentary on the Constitution of India, Durga Das Basu, Vol. 2, p. 587....


Dissolution

Dissolution, the act of breaking up. A partnership may be dissolved either by a proper notice, or effluxion of time as agreed upon in the Articles of partnership, or by death, marriage, lunacy, bankruptcy, or by judgment of the High Court, (English) Partnership Act,1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 39), ss. 32-34.A dissolution is the civil death of the Parliament, and is effected in two ways:- (1) By the sovereign's will, expressed either in person or by representation. (2) By length of time, i.e., five (formerly seven) years. See (English) Parliament Act, 1911; SEPTENNIAL ACT. By the (English) Representation of the People Act, 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c.102), s. 51, Parliament is not determined or dissolved by the demise of the Crown.When a company has been completely wound up by the Court, the Court must make an order that the company is dissolved from the date of the Order (English) (Companies Act, 1929 s. 221): as to dissolution on a voluntary winding up see ss. 236 and 245 ibid. Under the same s....


Rule of law

Rule of law, executive instructions cannot override the provisions of law, such a method will destroy the very basis of the rule of law, Muna Lal Jain v. State of Assam, AIR 1962 SC 386.Rule of law, is an absolute supremacy and predominance of regular law as opposed to the influence of arbitrary power; equality before the law or the equal subjection of all classes to the ordinary law courts, constitution is the result of the ordinary law of the land, Introduction to the Study of the Law of Constitution, A.V. Dicey, 2003, pp. 202-203.Means an authoritative legal doctrine, principle or precept applied to the facts of an appropriate case, Wright v. Wright, 904 P 2d 403 (1995).Rule of law, the binding character of judgments pronounced by courts of competent jurisdiction is itself an essential part of the rule of law, and the rule of law obviously is the basis of the administration of justice on which constitution lays emphasis, Daryo v. State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1961 SC 1457.Rule of law,...


Increase of Rent and Mortgage (Restrictions) Acts (English)

Increase of Rent and Mortgage (Restrictions) Acts (English). A series of statutes, each of a temporary character, curtailing the contractual rights, in respect of certain classes of property, of landlords and mortgagees. This legislation was rendered necessary, in the first instance, by the conditions caused by the outbreak of the Great War. The continuance of the protection to tenants and mortgagees of dwelling-houses afforded by the later Acts was made necessary by the housing shortage, caused principally by the economic effects of the war. The Courts (Emergency Powers) Act,1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 78), was the first of such Acts: it restricted the right to levy distress or resume possession of property by landlords and of mortgagees to foreclose or realize their security. This Act was followed by a series of complicated statutes which imposed restrictions on increasing the rent and mortgage interest on properties falling within their scope. the obscure and ambiguous drafting of these ...


Lok Sabha Secretariat

Lok Sabha Secretariat, is the Secretariats of the House of the people; known as Legislative Assembly Department when it was first set up as a separate self-contained Department on January 10, 1929. Later the name was changed to Parliament Secretariats on January 26, 1950, when the Constitutions Assembly emerged as the Provisional Parliament, Practice and Procedure of Parliament, M.N. Kaul and S.L. Shakdher, 5th Edn., 2001, p. 1041....


Personal property

Personal property, money, goods, cattle, chattels, stocks, shares, securities, debts, etc., and also leases for years, however long. Personal property is either in possession, or in action, where a man has not the actual occupation of the thing, but only a right to it arising upon some contract, and recoverable by an action at law.Any person may assign personal property, including chattels real, directly to himself and another person or other persons or corporation, by the like means as he might assign the same to another, Law of Property Amendment Act, 1859, s. 21.This was extended by the (English) Emergency Act, 1881, to conveyances of freehold land or choses in action by a husband to a wife or e contra. Now, by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 72, a person may convey real or personal property to himself alone.In the case of real property there can be no such thing as an absolute ownership in the subject-matter, i.e., land; the utmost that any one, even an owner in fee sim...


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