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Trial by record

Trial by record, means a trial in which one party insists that a record exists to support its claim and opposing party denies the existence of such a record, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th

Tenure

Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1481. Tenure, the mode of holding property. The only tenures in land now existing with a few unimpor-tant exceptions are (1) free and common socage in fee-simple, including enfranchised copyhold, which is

Tail

to this form of estate are still applicable (a) in the investigation of all titles to land in existence on the 31st December, 1925; (b) in the construction of equitable interests into which these were converted on

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Statutory body

Statutory body, must be created by or under a statute and owe its existence to a statute, Sukhdev Singh v. Bhagatram Sardar Singh, AIR 1975 SC 1331; Vaish Degree College v. Lakshmi

Specific performance

and not for a merely good consideration, how meritorious soever it may be. (e) While a valuable consideration exists on the one side, there must be a promise or sale on the other, together with a mutuality

Special Economic Zone

of section 3 and sub-section (1) of section 4 (including Free Trade and Warchousing Zone) and includes an existing Special Economic Zone. [Special Economic Zone Act, 2005 (28 of 2005), s. 2(za)] Means each Special Economic Zone

Settled land

that a fee-simple in possession or a term of years absolute (which are the only legal estates in existence) should be vested in an owner who could transfer either of these if settled entirely to a purchaser

Retrospective law

Retrospective law, retrospective means looking backward; contemplating what is past; having reference to a statute or things existing before the Act in question. Retrospective law, according to the same dictionary, means a law which looks back-ward

Possession

protected as such by law. Legal possession is ordinarily associated with de facto possession; but legal possession may exist without de facto possession, and de facto possession is not always regarded as possession in law. A person

Retrospective

In general, however, the courts regard as retrospective any statute which operates on cases or facts coming into existence before its commencement in the sense that if affects, even if for the future only, the character or

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