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Practice, connotes repeated events but that will not affect the construction to be placed on the words 'unfair labour practice to dismiss or discharge, Hindustan Lever Ltd. v. Ashok V. Kate, AIR 1966 SC 285, p. 301, (see Maharashtra Recognition of Trade Unions and Prevention of Unfair Labour Practices Act, 1971, Sch. IV, item 1).Practice, denotes the mode of proceeding by which a legal right is enforced as distinguished from the law which gives and defines the right, State of Seraikella v. Union of India, AIR 1951 SC 253: 1951 SCR 474: 1951 SCJ 425.Practice, includes any practice relating to the carrying on of any trade by a person or an enterprise. [Competition Act, 2002 (92 of 2003), s. 2(m)]The form and manner of conducting and carrying on suits, actions, or prosecutions at law or in equity, civil or criminal, through their various stages, from the commencement to final judgment and execution, according to principles and rules laid down by the several Courts. As to the precise meani...
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...
Money lender
Money lender, a few disconnected and isolated transactions would not make a person engaged regularly in Money lending business, Ka Icildawallang v. U. Lokendra Sojour, AIR 1987 SC 2047. [Assam Money-lenders Act, (4 of 1934), s. 2(1)]--The (English) Money-lenders Act, 1900 (63 & 64 Vict. c. 51), by s. 6 defines the expression 'money-lender' therein as includingevery person whose business is that of money-lending, or who advertises or announces himself or holds himself out in any way as carrying on that business.but not including a pawnbroker (see that title), a Friendly, Building, or Loan Society (see those titles) or a corporation empowered by statute to lend money, orany person bona fide carrying on the business of banking or insurance or bona fide carrying on any business not having for its primary object the leading of money, in the course of which and for the purposes whereof he lends money; or any body corporate for the time being exempted from registration under this Act by order...
Common Law
Common Law [lex communis, Lat.]. 'The phrase 'common law' is used in two very different senses. It is cometimes contrasted with equity; it then denotes the law which, prior to the Judicature Act, was administered in the three ' superior ' Courts of law at Westminster, as distinct from that administered by the Court of Chancery at Lincoln's Inn. At other times it is used in contradistinction to the statute law, and then denotes the unwritten law, whether legal or equitable in its origin, which does not derive its authority from any express declaration of the will of the Legislature. This unwritten law has the same force and effect as the statute law. It depends for its authority upon the recognition given by our Law Courts to principles, customs, and rules of conduct previously existing among the people. This recognition was formerly enshrined in the memory of legal practitioners and suitors in the Courts; it is now recorded in the voluminous series of our law reports which embody the d...
Equity to a settlement (Wife's)
Equity to a settlement (Wife's). Prior to the Married Women's Property Acts (see MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY), the law permitted a husband to possess himself absolutely of the whole of his wife's personal property and the rents and profits, during the coverture, of her realty; the consequence of which was that the wife, however great her fortune, might be left destitute. Whenever, therefore, he or any person claiming in his right was obliged to come into a Court of Equity for the recovery of the wife's property, the Court, as the price of its assistance, required him to make a settlement of some portion of it in favour of the wife and her children, the rule being to settle one-half in ordinary cases, but the whole if the husband were insolvent or had deserted his wife or there had been a dissolution of marriage on the ground of his adultery, Barrow v. Barrow, (1854) 5 De GM&G 782; Morgan v. Morgan, (1854) 2 Eq Rep 1270. The (English) Married Women's Property Act, 1882, by leaving a wife's...
Vice-Chancellors in Equity
Vice-Chancellors in Equity. The first Vice-Chancellor (Sir Thomas Plumer) was appointed by 53 Geo. 3, c. 24, and two more by 5 Vict. c. 5, s. 19. One of them was at one time called Vice-Chancellor of England, the last who bore that title being Sir Lancelot Shadwell. Each Vice-Chancellor st separately from the Lord Chancellor and lords justices, to whom an appeal lay from his decisions. See 14 & 15 Vict. c. 4, and 15 & 16 Vict. c. 80, ss. 52-58. They became judges of the High Court of Justice (Jud. Act, 1873, s. 5), retaining their titles, but it was enacted that on the death or retirement of any one of them, his successor should be styled a judge of the High Court (ibid.). Vice-Chancellor Bacon (1870 to 1886) was the last of them. For a complete list of the Equity judges since 1660, see Seton on Judgements. There is also a Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lanca....
Gift
Gift. The old text-writers made a gift (donatio) a distinct species of deed, and describe it as a conveyance applicable to the creation of an estate-tail; while a feoffment they strictly confine to the creation of a fee simple estate. The operative verb was 'give,' which no longer implies any covenant in law (Real Property Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 106), s. 4), replaced by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 59(2), and the deed required livery of seisin. It is obsolete. See Jac. Law Dict.A gift is now understood to mean a mere voluntary assurance or transfer of property without any consideration being given for it. Such a transaction is apt to be very jealously scrutinized in a Court of Equity, and will be set aside on proof of undue influence (see that title), or of a fiduciary relationship of the donee to the donor, see Huguenin v. Baseley, (1806-8) 14 Ves 273; W. & T. L.C.; Morley v. Loughman, (1893) 1 Ch 736 (757); Lyon v. Home, (1868) LR 6 Eq 655. In the absence of any such objectio...
In personam
In personam. All civil actions are either in personam or in rem; actions at law in personam are those which seek recovery of damages, etc. so in equity the court acts in personam; thus it will make a decree against a defendant provided he is within the jurisdiction although the subject-matter of the suit may be situate abroad. 'The strict primary decree in this court,' said Lord Hardwicke, 'as a Court of Equity, is in personam', see Penn v. Lord Baltimore, (1750) 1 Ves Sen 444; W. & TLC See IN REM...
Civil Law
Civil Law, that rule of action which every particular nation, commonwealth, or city has established peculiarly for itself, more properly distinguished by the name of municipal law.The term 'civil law' is now chiefly applied to that which the Romans complied from the laws of nature and nations.The 'Roman Law'and the 'Civil Law' are convertible phrases, meaning the same system of jurisprudence; it is now frequently denominated 'the Roman Civil Law.'The collections of Roman Civil Law, before its reformation in the sixth century of the Christian era by the eastern Emperor Justinian, were the following:--(1) Leges Regi'. These laws were for the most part promulgated by Romulus, Numa Pompilius and Servius Tullius. To Romulus are ascribed the formation of a constitutional government, and the imposition of a fine, instead of death, for crimes; Numa Pompilius composed the laws relating to religion and divine worship, and abated the rigour of subsisting laws; and Servius Tullius, the sixth king,...
Expectant heir
Expectant heir. A person to whom property will accrue on the death of another person. expectant heirs wishing to anticipate this property have frequently borrowed money, to be repaid when the expected property shall devolve upon them. From the uncertainty of this period, the unsoundness of the security which the expectant heir can offer, and from the pressing character of his immediate necessities, the rate of interest is necessarily higher than that upon an ordinary loan, and is frequently very much higher than the risk run by the lender requires. At Common Law all such loans are good, and the interest upon them, however high, recoverable. By the Usury Acts, indeed-which, however, did not apply to loans to expectant heirs with any greater rigour than to loans to other persons'they were for a long period of yeas subject to the restriction that only a fixed maximum rate of interest could be exacted, but the Usury Acts were repealed in 1854 by 17 & 18 Vict. c. 90. See USURY.From very ear...
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