Erodent - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: erodentErode
To eat into or away to corrode as canker erodes the flesh...
Erosive
That erodes or gradually eats away tending to erode corrosive...
Bad lands
Barren regions especially in the western United States where horizontal strata Tertiary deposits have been often eroded into fantastic forms and much intersected by cantildeons and where lack of wood water and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country whence the name first given by the Canadian French Mauvaises Terres bad lands...
Calcivorous
Eroding or eating into limestone...
Eroded
Eaten away gnawed irregular as if eaten or worn away...
Erodent
A medicine which eats away extraneous growths a caustic...
Erosion
The act or operation of eroding or eating away...
Company
Company [fr. compagnia, Ital., which word is still printed on Bank of England notes as 'compa'], a body of persons associated for purposes of busi-ness, sometimes, but not now so frequently as some years ago, styled a Joint Stock Company.A company has its origin either (1) in a charter, as the Bank of England and many insurance companies; or (2) in a special Act of Parliament, with which, as authorizing an undertaking of a public nature such as a railway, the Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 16), is necessarily incorporated; or (3) in registration under the Companies Acts, 1862 and subsequent Acts, now consolidated into the (English) Companies Act, 1925 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 23).By s. 13 of the Act of 1925 (1) on the registration of the memorandum of a company the registrar shall certify under his hand that the company is incorporated and, in the case of a limited company, that the company is limited. (2) From the date of incorporation mentioned in the certificat...
Conservancy measures
Conservancy measures, means measures after the purpose of conservancy, but does not include measures for the protection of banks against floods or for restricting banks which have become eroded mainly on account of reasons not connected with shipping and navigation. [Inland Waterways Authority of India, Act. (82 of 1985), s. 2(e)]...
Void
Void, 'the erosion of the distinction between juris-dictional errors and non-jurisdictional errors has, correspondingly eroded the distinction between void and voidable decision. The courts have become increasingly impatient with the distinction, to the extent that (1) All official decisions are presumed to be valid until set aside or otherwise held to be invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction', Judicial Review of Administrative Action, De Smith, Woolf and Jowell, 1995 Edn., p. 259-60.Void, denotes 'if an act or decision, or an order or other instrument is invalid, it should, in principal be null and void for all purposes; and it has been said that there are no degrees of nullity. Even though such an act is wrong and lacking in jurisdiction, however, it subsists and remains fullyeffective unless and until it is set aside by a court of competent jurisdiction. Until its validity is challenged, its legality is preserved', Halsbury's Laws of England, 4th Edn., (Re-issue), Vol. 1(1), ...
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