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parol evidence rule : a rule of document interpretation: parol evidence offered to contradict or modify a writing (as a contract or will) is not admissible when the writing is unambiguous or was intended to be a final expression of the author's wishes ...
Ex relatione
Ex relatione, on the report of: an expression affixed to cases which the reporter gives on the authority of another; as ex relatione amici....
Gamekeepers
Gamekeepers. As to their appointment and authority, see the (English) Game Act, 1831 (1 & 2 Wm. 4, c. 32), s. 13. The expression is also commonly used with reference to servants employed to look after game who have not been appointed in accordance with this Act; those appointed under the Act have powers of arrest, while others have not....
Harbour
Harbour, except in s. 157, and in s. 130 in the case in which the harbour is given by the wife or husband of the person harboured, the word 'harbour' includes the supplying a person with shelter, food, drink, money, clothes, arms, ammunition or means of conveyance, or the assisting a person by any means, whether of the same kind as those enumerated in this section or not, to evade apprehension. (Penal Code, 1860 s. 52A)Harbour, includes any haven, cove or other landing place. (English) Fishery Harbours Act, 1915, s. 2(4). Where the expression 'harbour' is used in that Act with reference to a local lighthouse authority, it has the meaning assigned to it by the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, s. 742. See: (English) Harbour Act, 1964, s. 57(1); Halsbury's Law of England, 4th Edn., Vol. 36, para 401, p. 231.Means a harbour property so called whether natural or artificial, estuary, navigable river, pier, jetty, and other work in or at which ships can obtain shelter or ship and unship goods or ...
In the opinion of the custodian
In the opinion of the custodian, the use of the expression 'in the opinion of the Custodian' was not intended to invest the Custodian with arbitrary authority. In forming his opinion, he was bound to act judicially, Custodian of Evacuee Property v.Rabia Bai, (1976) 4 SCC 270: AIR 1976 SC 2557. [Administration of Evacuee Property Act, 1950, s. 10(2)(n)]...
Infrastructure
Infrastructure, 'infrastructure' includes structures such as docks, wharves, jetties, landing stages, locks, buoys, inland ports, cargo handling equipment, road and rail access and cargo storage spaces, and the expression 'infrastructure facilities' shall be construed accordingly. [Inland Water Ways Authority of India Act, 1985 (82 of 1985), s. 2(f)]Means the underlying framework of a system; esp., public services and facilities (such as highways, schools, bridges, sewers, and water systems) needed to support commerce as well as economic and residential development, Black's Law Diction-ary, 7th Edn., p. 784.Includes industrial, commercial or social infrastruc-ture for the development of a Special Economic Zone, West Bengal Special Economic Zone Act, 2003, s. 2(g).Includes industrial, commercial or social infrastruc-ture or any amenity for the development of the zone, Rajasthan Special Economic Zones Develop-ment Act, 2003, s. 2(g)...
Majestas
Majestas is defined by Ulpian (Dig. 48, tit. 4, s. 1) to be 'crimen illud quod adversus populum Romanum vel adversus securitatem ejus committitur.' He then gives various instances of the crime of majestas, some of which pretty nearly correspond to treason in English law; but all the offences included under majestas comprehend more than our term treason. One of the offences included in majestas was the effecting, aiding in, or planning the death of a magistratus popli Romani, or of one who had imperium or potestas. Though the phrase 'crimen majestatis' was used, the complete expression was crimen l's' majestatis.Majestas, The majesty, sovereign authority, or supreme prerogative of the State or sovereign; supreme power of the people, especially as represented by their highest representative, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 966....
Money of account, money of measurement money of payment
Money Bill, cannot be introduced in the Council of States. [Constitution of India, Art. 109(1)]Money Bill, cannot be referred to Joint Committee, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha, 10th Edn., 2002, r. 74.Money Bill, in India, the Speaker endorses certificate on Money Bill, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha, 10th Edn., 2002, r. 96.Money Bill, is a Bill which contains only provisions dealing with the imposition, repeal, remission, alteration or regulation of taxation etc., Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 806.Money Bill, on a Bill being introduced in the Council at a subsequent stage if an objection is taken that the Bill is a Money Bill, the Chairman shall, if he holds the objects valid, direct the termination of further proceeding of the Bill. If Chairman is doubtful regarding the validity of the objection, he shall refer the matter to the Speaker whose decision on the matter shall be final, Rules of Procedure and Cond...
Navy
Navy [fr. navis, Lat., a ship], an assemblage of ships, commonly ships of war; a fleet. [S. 57(3), Indian Evidence Act]The discipline of the Navy was formerly regulated by certain express rules, articles, and orders, first enacted by the authority of Parliament soon after the Restoration, but it is now regulated by the Naval Discipline Act (29 & 30 Vict. c. 109), as amended by the (English) Naval Discipline Acts, 1884, 1909, 1915 (2), 1917, and 1922. See Chit. Stat., tit. 'Navy.'As to the self-governing Colonies, see the (English) Naval Discipline (Dominion Naval Forces) Act, 1911....
Peace, order and good government
Peace, order and good government, the words 'peace, order and good Government' and similar expressions are words of very wide import giving wide discretion to the authority empowered to pass laws for such purposes, T.M. Kanniyan v. ITO, AIR 1968 SC 637 (640). (Constitution of India, Art. 240)...
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