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Measure of damage

Measure of damage, the test which determines the amount of damages to the given. The general rule in English law is that in contract the measure of damage is the actual loss to the plaintiff, and...

Mental cruelty

Mental cruelty, is the conduct of other spouse which causes mental suffering or fear to the matrimonial life of the other, Savitri Pandey v. Prem Chandra Pandey, (2002) 2 SCC 73. Mental cruelty in s. 13(1)...

Mistake

Mistake, misconception, error. Money paid under a mistake of a material fact, as where a person discounts a forged bill, is recoverable (though a banker paying the forged cheque of a customer cannot charge the customer...

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Misuse of power or misapplication of power

Misuse of power or misapplication of power, 'Misuse of power' or 'mis- application of power' or a 'detournement de puvoir' (as it is called in French Administrative Law), are terms correctly employed to describe the use...

Hue and Cry

Hue and Cry [fr. huer, Fr. to shout; crier, to cry aloud; hutesium et clamor, Lat.], the old common law process of pursuing with horn and voice felons and such as have dangerously wounded another. It...

Fee

Fee [fr. feoh, Sax.; fee, Dan., cattle; feudum, Med. Lat.; feu, Scot.], property peculiar; reward or recom-pense for services. See FEES. Also an estate of inheritance divided into there species: (1) fee-simple absolute; (2) qualified or...

Goodwill

Goodwill, may be the whole advantage belonging to the firm, its reputation as also connection thereof. It, thus, means that every affirmative advantage as contrasted with negative advantage that has been acquired in carrying on the...

Current assets

Current assets, means bank balances and cash and includes such other assets or reserves as are expected to be realised in cash or sold or consumed within a period of not more than twelve months in...

Open market

Open market, if the transactions of sale and pur-chase are effected under conditions enabling every person desirous of purchasing the goods in question to place orders with such manufacturing unit and obtain supplies, they will constitute...

Caste

Caste, Since a caste is a social combination of persons governed by its rules and regulations, it may, if its rules and regulations so provide, admit a new member just as it may expel an existing...

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