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Perpetuity

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

Reeve

and enforced the law by holding court within the hundred. - 'All the freeholders, unless relieved by special exemption 'owed suit' at the hundred-moot and the reeve of the hundred presided over it. In Anglo-Saxon times, the

Rate

Personal property is not rateable, and stock in trade is expressly excepted by the temporary (English) Poor Rate Exemption Act, 1840, made permanent by the Expiring Laws Act, 1922. The multiplicity of rates leviable by public bodies

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Solicitor

the intermediate and final in each of the months of March, June, and November. As to conditions of exemption from the preliminary examination, see s. 28. Barristers of not less than five years' standing having been disbarred,

Right

sense, the word 'right' is used to mean an immunity from the legal power of another: immunity is exemption from the power of another, State of Rajasthan v. Union of India, AIR 1977 SC 1361: (1977) 3

Risk Note

effect that by offering alternative rates-a higher rate with the ordinary carrier's liability, and a lower rate with exemption from liability-a company may exempt themselves from all liability except for wilful is conduct, Sutcliffe v. G.W.Ry., (1910)

Sheep

sufficient distress on the demised premises, by the Statute of Marlbridge (51 Hen. 3, s. 4), and this exemption extends to the sheep of an under-tenant, Keen v. Priest, (1859) 28 LJ Ex 157.

Smuggling

if any goods exempted from payment of duty is imported without observing the condition, subject to which the exemption has been made, it will be a case of smuggling within the meaning of s. 2(e) of the

Sovereignty

SC 1201 (1204): (1982) 2 SCC 414: (1982) 3 SCR 729. [C.P. & Berar Revocation of Land Revenue Exemption Act, 37 of (1948), s. 5(3)(ii)] Sovereignty has been defined as 'the supreme authority' in an independent political

Stamp duties

land and property conveyed or transferred exceeds the sum of 500l. Consult Alpe on Stamp Duties. As to exemption from certain stamp duties, see Build-ing Societies Act, 1874, s. 41; Friendly Societies Act, 1896, s. 33; Revenue

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