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Shares in public undertakings

1845, are personal property; and in many cases of companies incorporated by special Act the shares have been expressly declared to be personal property. Before 1926 the question whether shares in other under-takings were real or personal

Sodomy

s. 1, sub-s. 2, appears to be that imprisonment may be substituted, though this particular crime is not expressly mentioned in that Act.

Tax

the support of government and for all public needs. This definition of taxes, often referred to as approved, expressly or otherwise, by many different courts. While this definition of taxes characterises them as 'contributions', other definitions refer

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in s. 26A and Rule 2 as meaning mentioning describing or defining in detail, it does not mean expressly setting out in fractional or order shares, Kylasa Sarabhiah v. CIT, AIR 1965 SC 1411: (1965) 2 SCR

Lottery

for the service of the state, they were from time to time sanctioned by Acts of Parliament passed expressly for this purpose (see 4 Geo. 4, c. 60), but by 6 Geo. 4, c. 60, they were

Stocks

of the stocks began to be disused about the beginning of the nineteenth century, but has not been expressly abolished; and stocks have been preserved in some country villages and towns; e.g., at Woodeaton in Oxfordshire and

Superannuation

benefits thereof including pension. 'Voluntary retirement' could have fallen within the afore-mentioned expression, provided it was so stated expressly in the scheme, HEC Voluntary Retd. Emps. Welfare Society v. Heavy Engineering Corporation Ltd., AIR 2006 SC 1420.

Support

of mines or power to work the same, and a power to let down the surface must be expressly granted in a lease, Warwickshire Coal Company v. Coventry Corporation, 1934 Ch 488. As to the right of

Supremacy, Oath of

abolished generally by the Promissory Oaths Act, 1868, s. 9, and 21 & 22 Vict. c. 48 was expressly repealed by the revising Promissory Oaths Act, 1871. See, further, OATH.

Tail

L.P. Act, 1925, a tenant-in-tail in possession may after 1925, dispose of the whole estate by will either expressly or by general reference to his entailed estates, and in that case it passes to his personal representatives

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