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Judicial discretion

science of understanding, to discern between falsity and truth, between wrong and right, between shadows and substance, between equity and colourable glosses and pretences, and not to do according to their wills and private affections; for, as

Law of Property Act, 1925 (English)

equities (see LAND CHARGES). Subject to the Acts all equitable interests which are enforceable in a Court of Equity are preserved (see s. 3 of the (English) L.P. Act, 1925). A substantial part of the Law of

Investment

Investment, means in common parlance, putting out money on interest, either by the way of loan, or by the purchase of income producing property, Commissioner of Income Tax v. U.P. Co-operative Federation Ltd., AIR 1989 SC...

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Latin information

v. Valle-Jones, (1935) 2 KB 209 (damage by loss of services); an English information is an information in equity on the revenue side of the King's Bench Division (see Halsb. L. of E., title 'Crown Practice.

Lex finget ubi subsistit 'quitas

Lex finget ubi subsistit 'quitas. 11 Co. 90.-(The law will supply a fiction where equity subsists.) See FICTION.

Leading cases

and published by Mr. John William Smith with copious notes in1837, and a similar collection on points of equity, by Messrs. White and Tudor, in 1849. See also RULING CASES.

Legal misconduct

arbitrator as such. It also includes any irregularity of action which is not consonant with general principles of equity and good conscience which ought to govern the conduct of an arbitrator, Indian Mineral Co. v. Northern India

Lex aliquando sequitur aquitatem

Lex aliquando sequitur aquitatem [Lat.], law sometimes follows equity.

Lex respicit 'quitatem

Lex respicit 'quitatem. Co. Litt. 24 b.-(The law regards equity.

Liable

Liable, means 'Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; chargeable; answerable; compellable to make satisfaction, compensation or restitution..... Obligated: accountable for or chargeable with. Condition of

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