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Joint-stock Banks

of notes issued by them, and their members are liable for the debts of the bank to the extent of the amount paid to note-holders out of the general assets. The sale and purchase of shares in

Inheritance

in propria persona fulfill, he owns, exercises and fulfils in the person of a living substitute. To this extent, and in this fiction, it may be said that legal personality of a man survives his natural personality;

Insurance

pay specified sums upon the death of the assured, they allow the latter to participate to a certain extent in the profits of the business. The mode is not the same in all; in some the principle

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Instrumentality, Agency

Instrumentality, Agency, instrumentality and agency are the two terms which to some extent overlap in their meaning; 'instrumentality' includes 'means' also, which 'agency' does not, in its meaning, Pradeep Kumar Biswas

Insect-infested

food. The word 'infested', accord-ing to the learned counsel, connotes the presence of insects of a magnitude or extent which makes the article unfit for human consumption, Paramjit Singh v. Municipal Corporation of Delhi, AIR 1982 SC

Inferior Courts (UK)

the procedure of the Judgments Extension Act, 1868, which applies to superiors courts only, renders, to a certain extent, judgments obtained in inferior courts in England, Scotland, and Ireland res-pectively, effectual in any other part of the

Income-tax

this subject, dating from the Income-tax Act, 1842 (5 & 6 Vict. c. 35), which, to a great extent, repeats the phraseology of Addington's Act of 1806, are very numerous. Voluntary Easter gifts to an incumbent are

Incapacitated person

is impaired by an intoxicant, by mental illness or deficiency, or by physical illness or disability to the extent that personal decision-making is impossible, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 763.

Ignorance of law is no excuse

of law is no excuse, The maxim 'ignor-ance of law is no excuse' cannot be carried to the extent of saying that every person must be presumed to know that a piece of legislation enacted by a

Law of Property Act, 1925 (English)

The registration of equitable interests and some legal charges under the (English) Land Charges Act,1925, has to some extent preserved the legal rights against the land of the owner of these equities (see LAND CHARGES). Subject to

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