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Socially and educationally backward classes

Socially and educationally backward classes, the expression 'socially and educationally backward classes' in Article 15(4) was explained in Balaji's case, AIR 1963 SC 649 to be comparable to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. The reason

Notice to quit

a notice to quit at the tenant's house with a servant, without further proof of its having been explained to the servant, or that it came to the tenant's hands, is not sufficient. If a landlord receive

Subject to contract

of these words in contracts for sale of land, Hussey v. Horne Puyne, (1878) 4 AC 311, as explained in Curtis Moffatt Ltd. v. Wheeler, (1929) 2 Ch 244

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Warrant of Attorney

they must be executed in the presence of a solicitor acting on behalf of the person signing and explaining the consequences and effect of the warrant, and filed at the Central Office (Bills of Sales Department) of

Voting

entitled to exercise the right on the subject or issue in question. In Black's Law Dictionary it is explained as, 'the expression of one's will, preference, or choice, formally mani-fested by a member of a legislative or

Uses

was an interest unknown to the Common Law before the statute. This doctrine and its consequences have been explained thus: There are three conveyances, viz., appointment to uses, bargain and sale, and covenant to stand seised where

Unclaimed property

of action: see the judgment of Bankes, LJ, in Joachimson v. Swiss Bank Corporation, (1921) 3 KB 110, explaining: Pott v. Clegg, (1849) 16 M&W 321; Foley v. Hill, (1851) 2 HLC 28. It follows from this

Unbounded sugarcane

to pay a certain sum to the oblige.' In stroud's judicial Dictionary (4th Edn.) the expression 'bond' is explained as: an obligation by deed'. It will thus be clear that the expression 'bonded sugarcane' must mean sugarcane

Unauthorised occupation

Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occu-pants) Act, 1971 (40 of 1971), s. 2 (g)] The expression 'unauthorised occupation' is explain-ed in s. 437A of the Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporation Act, 1949 in relation to any person authorised to

To perform those duties etc

read once after the word 'fit' and a second time after the words 'Regional Transport Authority'. That will explain the importance of the conjunction 'and' which is found in sub-cl. (b) after the words 'such authority', State

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