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Enactment, The word 'enactment' does not mean the same thing as 'Act'. Act means the whole Act, whereas a s. or part of a s. may be an enactment, Prabodh Verma v. State of Uttar Pradesh, (1984) 4 SCC 251: AIR 1985 SC 167: (1985) 1 SCR 216.An 'enactment' would include any Act or provision contained therein passed by the Union Parliament or the State Legislature, State of Punjab v. Sukh Deb Sorup Gupta, AIR 1970 SC 1641 (1642). [General Clauses Act, (10 of 1897), s. 3(19)]Enactment shall include a Regulation (as hereinafter defined) and any Regulation of the Bengal, Madras or Bombay Code, and shall also include any provision contained in any Act or in any such Regulation as aforesaid. [General Clause Act, 1897, s. 3(17)]The action or process of making into law, Black's Law Dictionary, p. 546....
enactment
enactment 1 : the act of enacting : the state of being enacted 2 : something (as a law) that has been enacted ...
enacting clause
enacting clause : the clause of an act that formally expresses legislative authorization and usually begins with “Be it enacted” ...
Indirect tax enactment
Indirect tax enactment, means the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962) or the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944) or the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975) or the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985 (5 of 1986) or the relevant Act and includes the rules or regulations made under such enactment. [Finance Act, 1998, s. 87(j)]...
enact
enact : to establish by legal and authoritative act : make into law [ a bill] ...
Enactive
Having power to enact or establish as a law...
Enact
Enact, to act, perform, or effect; to establish by law; to decree.The make into law by authoritative act, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 546....
Enacting formula
Enacting formula, is the section of a Bill or statute which establishes the whole document as a law, A Dictionary of Law, William C. Anderson, 1889, p. 24.Is a short formal paragraph immediately after the title and Preamble (if any) of the Bill, which set forth the authority of the body by which the Bill is to be passed, Parliamentary Dictionary, L.A. Abraham & S.C. Hawtrey, 1956, p. 92 and H.M. Barclay, 3rd Edn., 1970.Is taken up for passing only when all the clauses and Schedules (including new clauses and new Schedules) have been disposed of, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha, 10th Edn., 2002, p. 92.Was adopted in 1954. It proceeds the clauses of the Bill, Practice and Procedure of Parliament, M.N. Kaul and S.L. Shakdher, 5th Edn., 2001 p. 535...
Wills
Wills. A will is the valid disposition by a living person, to take effect after his death, of his disposable property. ''But in law ultima voluntas in scriptis is used, where lands or tenements are devised, and testamentum, when it concerneth chattels': Co. Litt. 111 a.Depository of Will of Living Person.-By the (English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 172, replacing s. 91 of the Court of Probate Act, 1857:-There shall, under the control and direction of the High Court, be provided safe and convenient depositories for the custody of the wills of living persons, and any person may deposit his will therein.And see (English) Administration of Justice Act, 1928 (18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 26), s. 11, as to deposit of wills under control of the High Court.Law before 1838.-The right of testamentary aliena-tion of lands is a matter depending on Act of Parliament. Before 32 Hen. 8, c. 1, a will could not be made of land, and before the Statute of Frauds a will (see NUNCUPATIVE WILL) could be made by word of mouth...
Magna Carta
Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III and Edward I later confirmed. It is generally regarded as one of the great common-law documents and as the foundation of constitution liberties. The other three great charters of English Liberty are the Petition of Right (3 Car. (1628)), the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2 (1679)), and the Bill of Rights (1 Will. SM. (1689)). Also spelled Magna charta, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 963.This Great Charter is based substantially upon the Saxon Common Law, which flourished in this kingdom until the Normaninvasion consolidated the system of feudality, still the great characteristic of the principles of real property. The barons assembled at St.Edmund's Bury, in Suffolk, in the later part of the year 1214, and there solemnly swore upon the high alter to withdraw their allegiance from the Crown, and openly rebel, unless King John confirmed by a formal charter the ancient li...
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