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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
All Laws in force
All Laws in force, means existing Laws, Kunga Nima Lepiha v. State of Sikkim, AIR 2006 Sikkim 1. --the expression 'all laws in force' … All Laws in force, means existing Laws, Kunga Nima Lepiha v. State of Sikkim, AIR 2006 Sikkim 1. --the expression
Retrospective or retroactive law
Retrospective or retroactive law, as one which takes away or impairs vested or accrued rights acquired under existing law. A retroactive law takes away or impairs vested rights acquired under existing laws, or creates a new obligation,
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Net wealth tax
general rule, all debts owed by a tax-payers, whether to residents or to non-residents, are deductible if their existence is established in conformity with the legal requirements. The usual test of deductibility, as applied by the Division … while the property tax often deemed to be imposed on an object - the property itself.' In Harvard Law School World Tax Series - Taxation in Columbia Net Wealth Tax is defined at page 451 thus: 'As
Major port
a port declared to be a major port by or under any law made by Parliament or any existing law and includes all areas for the time being included within the limits of such port, Commentary on the
Amalgamation
another. Reconstruction or 'amalgamation' has no precise legal meaning. The amalgamation is a blending of two or more existing undertakings into one undertaking, the share-holders of each blending company become substantially the shareholders in the company which … It has no precise legal meanings, Singer India Ltd. v. Chander Mohan Chandha, (2004) 7 SCC 1, [Halsbury' Laws of England, 4th Edn., Vol. 7, para 1539] Amalgamation is a blending of two or more existing undertakings
Civil Law
and thus the substance of many thousand treatises is compressed into one work which superseded all the then existing Digests, and rendered unnecessary references, which had become not only laborious but almost impossible. The Pandects were divided … Civil Law, that rule of action which every particular nation, commonwealth, or city has established peculiarly for itself, more properly
Magna Carta
Two of these are extant in the British Museum, and it is said there are two others in existence, one in the cathedral at Salisbury, and the other in that at Lincoln. Magna Charta was not firmly … (31 Car. 2 (1679)), and the Bill of Rights (1 Will. SM. (1689)). Also spelled Magna charta, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 963. This Great Charter is based substantially upon the Saxon Common Law, which flourished
equity
in England from a need to provide relief for claims that did not conform to the writ system existing in the courts of law. Originally, the courts of equity exercised great discretion in fashioning remedies. Over time,
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 … who would have taken realty as heir of the body or as tenant by the curtesy if the Law of Property Act, 1925, had not been passed [s. 130 (4) (ibid.)] The limitation of an estate so
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