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Second offence

higher penalty and for the third a still higher penalty, Jagdish Prasad v. State of U.P., AIR 1966 SC 290 (292): (1965) 3 SCR 806. … Second offence, the word 'second' in the ex-pression 'second offence' in s. 16(1) of the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954, means second in time, and … Second offence, the word 'second' in the ex-pression 'second offence' in s. 16(1) of the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954, means second in time, and not second of the same type. The 'second

Press

7, c. 43), passed inconsequence of the decision in Tenby Corporation v. Mason, (1908) 1 Ch 457, the ex-pression 'representatives of the Press' means duly accredited representatives of newspapers and duly accredited representatives of news agencies which … Press. By the (English) Local Authorities (Admission of the Press to Meetings) Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 43),

Premises

Precincts The word 'premises' is a generic term meaning open land or land with buildings or buildings alone. Expression 'premises including precincts does not necessarily mean that the premises must always have precincts. Even buildings need not … Premises (pr'missa), in logic, propositions antecedently supposed or proved. In a deed the 'premises' are all the parts preceding … used only in that sense in well-drawn instruments (Dav. Prec. in Conveyancing, vol. i.). It is, however, often used as meaning land or houses. For

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Maritime lien

lien is a claim which attaches to the res i.e., the ship, freight, or cargo. It may arise ex delicto, e.g., compensation for damage by collision, or ex contractu, for services rendered to the res; but it … The Henrich Bjorn, (1886) 11 App Cas 270; Foong Tai & Co. v. Buchheister & Co., 1908 AC 458. A claim arising out of an … Maritime lien, is well defined to mean a claim or privilege upon a thing to be carried into effect by legal process, that process to be a proceeding in

Institutions

of elementary instruction, and the writings of the ancient jurists were no longer allowed to have any authority, except so far as they had been incorporated in the digest, Smith's Dict. of Antiq. It was therefore necessary … Institutions. It was the object of Justinian to comprise in his Code and Digest, or Pandects, a complete body of law. But these works were not adapted to the purposes of elementary instruction, and … to the chief Division of Persons treated of from Titles III to VIII of the first book, men are either Free or Slaves. The condition

Interest

[See (English) Conditional Fee Agreements Regulation, 2000 (SI 2000/692), reg. 4(2)(c)(e)(ii)], Garrett v. Halton BC, (2007) 1 WLR 554 CA Cir. Interest, inter alia as … any agreement or otherwise; or (c) shall effect the damages recoverable for the dishonour of a bill of exchange.' 2. Sects. 28 and 29 of the (English) Civil Procedure Act, 1933, shall cease to have effect. For … Interest, an interest for the purposes of the regula-tion was not limited to a direct financial interest and included membership of a panel such

Royalty

of money, but may be a payment in kind, that is, of part of the produce of the exercise of the right, Jowitt's Dictionary of English Law, 2nd End., p. 1595. In the legal world, is known … In its secondary sense, the word 'royalty' would signify, as in mining leases, that part of the reddendum, variable thought, payable in cash or kind, for rights and privileges obtained, Inderjeet Singh Sial v. Karam Chand Thapar,

Prescription

possession of property, and is thus defined by Sir Edward Coke (Co. Litt. 113 b), Pr'scriptio est titulus ex usu et tempore substantiam capiens ab authoritatelegis. (Prescription is a title taking his substance of use and time … c. i., s. 4, p. 421. There are two kinds of prescription, viz.: (1) negative, which relates to realty or corporeal hereditaments, whereby an uninterrupted … Prescription [fr. pr'scribo, Lat.], title produced and authorised by long usage. It is known in the Roman Law as

Drunkenness

it is not void, and may be ratified when he becomes sober, Matthews v. Baxter, (1873) LR 8 Ex 132. Mere drunknness was punishable by statutes 4 Jac. 1, c. 5, and 21 Jac. 1, c. 7, … Drunkenness, intoxication with strong liquor; habit-ual inebriety. A contract made by a person when so drunk as to be unable to understand what he is doing is voidable if the person

Joint-tenancy

(English) Land Legislation of 1925 became law much more accommodating than a tenancy in common, unless cross-remainders are expressed or implied. The law itself now adopts it in cases of trustees for sale upon the statutory trusts … Joint-tenancy. This tenancy is created where the same interest in real or personal property is, by the act of the party, passed by the same matter of conveyance or claim in … estate without the concurrence of other parties. that legal estate has been vested in trustees for sale as joint-tenants in the following cases, in joint-tenancy,

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