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Perpetuity, concerns rights of property only, and does not affect the making of contracts, which do not create rights of property, Ram Baran Prasad v. Ram Mohit Hazara, AIR 1967 SC 744: (1967) 1 SCR 293.Is a future limitation, whether executory or by way of remainders, and of either real or personal property which is not to vest until after the expiration of, or will not necessarily vest within the period fixed and prescribed by law for the creation of future estates and interests, Walsh v. Secretary of State for India, (1863) 10 HLC 367.Perpetuity, unlimited duration; exemption from intermission or ceasing, where, though all who have interest should join in a covenant, so that they could not bar or pass the estate. It is odious in law, destructive to the common wealth, and an impediment to commerce, by preventing the wholesome circulation of property.The rule against perpetuities, or the doctrine of remoteness, applies to the corpus of property whether real or personal, and whether li...
Judicial-economy exception
Judicial-economy exception, means an exemption from the final-judgment rule, by which a party may seek immediate appellate review of a non-final order if doing so might establish a final or nearly final disposition of the entire suit, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 851....
Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure
Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, the words 'notwithstandi-ng anything contained in the CrPC' found at the beginning of s. 5A(1) merely carve out a limited exemption from the provisions of the CrPC insofar as they limit the class of persons who are competent to investigate into offences mentioned in the section and to arrest without a warrant. It does not mean that the whole of the CrPC, including schedule II thereof, is made inapplicable, Union of India v. Maj. I.C. Lala, AIR 1973 SC 2204: (1973) 2 SCC 72: (1973) 3 SCR 818. [Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947, s. 5A (1)]...
National insurance
National insurance. The (English) National Insur-ance Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 55), introduced by Mr. Lloyd George, established a wide system of compulsory state insurance covering both ill-health and unemployment, which is based upon premiums contributed in part by the employer, in part by the employee, and in part by the State. The Act consisted of three parts, the first dealing with National Health Insurance, the second with Unemployment Insurance, and the third contained miscellaneous provisions. This Act remained the basis of National Health Insurance, although the subject of very extensive amendment, until the National Health Insurance Act, 1924, consolidated the law. The law has been consolidated again by the (English) National Health Insurance Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5, and 1 Edw. 8, c. 32), amends and repeals the whole of the Acts passed in 1920, 1922, 1924 and 1928. The arrangement is as follows:-Part I. Insured Persons and Contributions.Part II. Benefits.Part III. Approved Soc...
Meat
Meat, retail dealers in: see (English) Retail Meat Dealers' Shops (Sunday Closing) Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 and 1 Edw. 8, c. 30), which provides for the compulsory closing of retail meat traders' shops and stalls on Sunday, with exemption in respect to Jewish retail dealers in meat, who may keep open on Sunday under license, on giving notice to the local authority and displaying notices as provided by the Act, but he must not keep open on Saturday. As to inspection and destruction of unsound meat, see (English) Public Health (London) Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 and 1 Edw. 8, c. 50), s. 180, and see UNSOUND FOOD.Meat includes blood, bones, sinew, eggs, shell or carapace, fat and flesh with or without skin, whether raw or cooked, or any wild animal or captive animal, other than a vermin. [Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 (53 of 1972), s. 2(20)]Meat, the dictionary meaning of the word meat in terms of Webster's New International Dictionary is as 'meat-flesh of animals used as food as distinguished f...
Literary and Scientific Institutions Act, 1854
Literary and Scientific Institutions Act, 1854 (English) (17 & 18 Vict. c. 112), as amended, affords facilities for procuring and settling sites and buildings in trust for institutions established for the promotion of literature, science, or the fine arts, or for the diffusion of useful knowledge, and makes provisions for improving the legal conditions of such institutions. As to the proper purposes of these institutions, see Re Badger, (1905) 1 Ch 568. As to their exemption from poor rates, sees 6 & 7 Vict. c. 36....
Letters of safe-conduct
Letters of safe-conduct. No subject of a nation at war with us can, by the law of nations, come into the realm, nor can travel himself upon the high seas, or send his goods and merchandise from one place to another, without danger of being seized by our subjects, unless he has letters of safe-conduct, which, by drivers old statutes, must be granted under the Great Seal, and enrolled in Chancery, or else are of no effect-the sovereign being the best judge of such emergencies as may deserve exemption from the general law of arms, Chitty's Prerogatives of the Crown, p. 48, and Vattel by Chit. 416. But passports or licences from our ambassadors abroad are now more usually obtained, and are allowed to be of equal validity; see ALIEN ENEMY.Where the court has made an order for attachment or forfeiture of any property under sub-sec. (1), and such property is suspected to be in a contracting State, the court may issue a letter of request to a court or an authority in the contracting State for ...
Ragged Schools
Ragged Schools, were exempted from poor and other rates by the Sunday and Ragged Schools Rating (Exemption from Rating) Act, 1869, in which a 'ragged school' means:Any school used for the gratuitous education of children and young persons of the poorest classes, and for the holding of classes and meetings in furtherance of the same object, and without any pecuniary benefit being derived therefrom except to the teacher or teachers employed.The Act also gives the same advantage to Sunday-schools, i.e., schools giving religious instruction to the young without deriving pecuniary profit. Ragged schools have ceased to exist since the establishment of free State education. See EDUCA-TION....
Quod clerici non eligantur inofficio ballivi, etc
Quod clerici non eligantur inofficio ballivi, etc., a writ which lay for a clerk, who, by reason of some land he had, was made, or was about to be made, bailiff, beadle, reeve, or some such officer, to obtain exemption from serving the office, Reg. Brev. 187....
Sunday
Sunday [fr. sunnan daeg, Sax., the day of the sun], the first day of the week, the Lord's Day, termed in the Sunday Observance Act, 1677 (29 Car. 2, c. 7, infra), 'the Lord's Day, commonly called Sunday.' It is a dies non juridicus, but an arrest for crime can be effected on this day; and bail can arrest their principal, and a sergeant-at-arms can apprehend; but no other law proceedings can be taken. By the Sunday Observance Act, 1677, it is enacted that:-No tradesmen, artificers, workmen, labourers, or other person whatsoever shall do or exercise any worldly labour, business, or work of their ordinary callings [barbers are not within the enactment: Palmer v. Snow, (1900) 1 QB 725] upon the Lord's Day, or any part thereof (works of necessity and charity only excepted).The (English) Hairdressers and Barbers Shops (Sunday Closing) Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 35), prohibits opening on Sundays (Jewish hairdressers may open on Sunday but must close on Saturday).The (English) Shops (Sunday...
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