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Negligence

to the jury to decide whether the defendant has shown a want of care which would have been expected in ordinary course of events in the circumstances. Burden of Proof.--The onus of proving negligence rets on the

Disappoint

To defeat of expectation or hope to hinder from the attainment of that which was expected hoped or desired to balk as

Hope and believe

Hope and believe, There is a marked difference between 'hope' and 'believe'. 'To hope' means 'to want and expect'; 'to look forward with expectation and desire'. 'Hope' is a wishful feeling floating on nebulous foams projected into

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Suspicious circumstances

not a 'suspicious' circumstances. A circumstance would be 'suspicious' when it is not normal or is not normally expected in normal situation or is not expected of a normal person, Indu Bala Bose v. Manindra Chandra Bose,

Property

v. State of Gujarat, AIR 1963 SC 540. Property, is nothing more than the basis of a certain expectation, namely, the expectation of deriving thereafter certain advantage from a thing (which we are already said to possess)

Shelley's case, Rule in

a remainder in tail male general, and is not in contingency or abeyance, nevertheless waiting for, and continuing expectant on, the determination of B.'s life-estate, which is expectant of A.'s death; but after A.'s death, and the

Income

case, 1932 (59) IA 206, as a periodical monetary return coming in with some sort of regularity, or expected regularity, from definite sources must be read with reference to the peculiar facts of that case. Money received

Post-obit Bond

in most cases the person upon whose death it is so payable is one from whom the obligor expects to derive some property. Post-obit bonds, and other securities of a like nature, are set aside, when made

Merger

Merger [fr. mergo, Lat., to sink], an annihilation, by act of law, of a particular in an expectant estate consequent upon their union in the same person without an intervening estate in another person--thus accelerating into

Believe and hope

Believe and hope, 'to hope' means 'to want and expect'; to look forward with expectation and desire.' 'Hope' is a wishful feeling floating on nebulous foams projected into

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