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Defect of jurisdiction

as a whole reads 'from defect of jurisdiction or other cause of a like nature, is unable to entertain it', the expression 'cause of a like nature' will have to be read ejusdem generis with the expression

Damages

27), 'Cairns's Act,' which provided that in all cases in which the Court of Chancery had jurisdiction to entertain an application for an injunction against a breach of agreement, or against the commission of a wrongful act,

Custody

taken to be a compendious expression referring to the events on the happening of which the Magistrate can entertain a bail petition of an accused, Sunita Devi v. State of Bihar, (2005) 1 SCC 608 (613, 614).

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Licence

and effect of the licence granted to the purchaser of a ticket for a theatre or other similar entertainment, see Hurst v. Picture Theatres, (1915) 1 KB 1, and the authorities there referred to, and Allen &

Lottery

distributing tickets, advertising, sending money out of Great Britain etc.; s. 23 exempts small lotteries incidental to certain entertainments; s. 24 exempts private lotteries; s. 25 deals with Art Unions, which are exempted; s. 26 deals with

Estates of the realm

the realm, the three branches of the Legislature-the Lords Spiritual, the Lords Tem-poral, and the Commons. The notion entertained by many, that the three estates of the realm are the King, the Lords, and the Commons, is

Knowledge

v. State of Haryana, AIR 1993 SC 1167 (1169): (1993) Supp 2 SCC 497. A state of mind entertained by a person with regard to existing facts which he has himself observed, or the existence of which

Incorporated Law Society

At these meetings an address by the President and other papers are read and discussed; and social gatherings, entertainments, and excur-sions are arranged. Provincial Law Societies on some what similar lines have been established in various parts

Impossible

life a thing is impossible when according to the ordinary course of human events, no expectation can be entertained that it will happen, Shephard v. Kottgen, (1877) 47 LJQB 67.

Impossibility

excused from payment of damages for non-performance of an agreement to let a music-hall to the plaintiff for entertainments for four non-consecutive days, by reason of the hall having been burnt down before the first of the

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