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Constructive trust

Constructive trust, a trust which the Court elicits by a construction put upon certain acts of parties. It arises upon a vendor's lien or charge upon land sold for unpaid purchase money, and generally, when an...

Tail

Tail [fr. tailler, Fr., to prune]. An estate-tail was formerly a freehold of inheritance and is now an equitable interest which may be created after 1925 in respect of personalty as well as realty by way...

Search

Search, implies an expiratory examination or prob-ing into or seeking something which is hidden, sealed, exposed or demonstrated, AIR 1968 Raj 188 (203). An examination of a person's body, property, or other area that the person...

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Right of private defence

Right of private defence, the right of private defence of person and property is recognised in all free, civilised, democratic societies within certain reasonable limits. Those limits are dictated by two considerations: (1) that the same...

Recovery

Recovery, the obtaining a thing by judgment or trial. The regaining or restoration of something lost or taken away, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1280. A true recovery is an actual or real recovery of...

Personally interested

Personally interested, does not imply merely intellectual interest but something of the nature of an expectation of advantage to be gained, or of a loss or some disadvantage to be avoided by one who was said...

Liberum tenementum

Liberum tenementum, a frank tenement or freehold. The plea of liberum tenementum, commonly pleaded by the defendant in an action of trespass, was the only case of usual occurrence in more modern practice, in which the...

Just and equitable

Just and equitable, are a recognition of the fact that a limited company is more than a mere legal entity with a personality in law of its own: that there is room in company law for...

zone of privacy

zone of privacy :an area or aspect of life that is held to be protected from intrusion by a specific constitutional guarantee (as of the right to be secure in one's person, house, papers, or effects...

Conduct disgraceful in a professional respect

Conduct disgraceful in a professional respect, is not limited either to conduct involving moral turpitude or to a veterinary surgeon's conduct in pursuit of his profession, but may extand to conduct which, although reprehensible in anyone,...

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