Empressement - Law Dictionary Search Results
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The title of the empress of Russia...
Emperess
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Emperice
An empress...
Empress
The consort of an emperor...
Empressement
Demonstrative warmth or cordiality of manner display of enthusiasm...
Consideration
Consideration. Any act of the promisee (the person claiming the benefit of an obligation) from which the promisor (the person burdened with the obligation) or a stranger derives a benefit or advantage, or any labour detriment or inconvenience sustained or suffered by the promisee at the request, express or implied, of the promisor. See Laythoarp v. Bryant, 3 Scott 250; 2 Wms. Saund 137 h; Currie v. Misa, (1875) LR 10 Exch 153.Consideration is one of the facts which the courts require as evidence of intention, (a) that a person intends his promise to be binding on him, or (b) that he intends to divest himself of a beneficial interest in property. In its widest sense consideration is the price, motive or inducement for a promise or for a transfer of property from one person to another. The nature or quality of the consideration which will be sufficient for these purposes varies with the nature of the transaction and in the absence of consideration the Courts will, except in the case of s...
In discharge of his duty
In discharge of his duty, In view of the words 'by otherwise abusing his position' read along with the words 'in the discharge of his duty' in s. 5(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947, an offence under that section requires that the public servant should misconduct himself in the discharge of his duty, State of Ajmer v. Shivji Lal, AIR 1959 SC 847: (1959) Supp (2) SCR 739. [Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947, s. 5(1)(d)]In discharge of his duty, can have only one meaning and that the officer has a duty to discharge and is discharging it at the particular time. They cannot mean that the officer is acting 'under colour' of his office. He must be acting at the time as a police officer and in the particular manner discharging a duty incumbent upon him as a police officer, Queen Empress v. Dalip, 18 All 246....
India
India, the territory of India comprises the territories of the States and that of Union territories which are specified in Sch. 1 of the Constitution and any other territories which may be acquired, Constitution of India, Art. 1(3)(a), (b), (c).means Bharat, a Union of States, Constitution of India, Art. 1.India, in 1876, by the (English) Royal Titles Act, 1876 (39 & 40 Vict. c. 6), Queen Victoria was empowered to add to the style of the Crown, with a view of recognizing the transfer of the Government of India to the Queen by the Government of India Act, 1858 (21 & 22 Vict. c. 106), and the addition of 'Empress of India' was made by Proclamation in April, 1876, with which addition as 'Emperor of India' it has passed to his present Majesty.In any Act of Parliament passed after 1889 the expression 'British India' means 'all territories and places within her Majesty's dominions which are for the time being governed by her Majesty through the Governor-General of India or through any govern...
Royal Title
Royal Title, '[George VI.] by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of all the British dominions beyond the seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India.' The words 'British dominions beyond the seas' were added by King Edward VII. in pursuance of the Royal Titles Act, 1901, and the title of Empress of India had been added by Queen Victoria in pursuance of the Royal Titles Act, 1876, to the Royal Titles given under the Union Acts....
Subrogation
Subrogation. The doctrine in the law of insurance whereby, as between insurer and insured the insurer is entitled to the advantage of every right of the insured, connected with the insurance which was effected between them. See Assicurazioni Generali de Trieste v. Empress Assurance Corporation, (1907) 2 KB 814. The doctrine is not confined to insurance, but extends inequity to many other cases, e.g., where money has been borrowed without authority but applied in payment of existing debts; in such cases the quasi-lender is entitled to stand in the shoes of the creditors thus paid. See Re Wrexham, etc., Railway (1899) 1 Ch 440; see INDEMNITY; GUARANTY....
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