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Witness
the Customs Department also, Bhagubhai Dullabhbhai Bhandari v. District Magistrate, AIR 1956 SC 585: (1956) SCR 533. So far as production of documents is concerned no doubt s. 139, Evidence Act says that a person producing a … person producing a document on summons is not a witness. But that s. is meant to regulate the right of cross-examination. It is not a guide to the connotation of the word 'witness', which must be understood
Discontinuance
the land than by law he was entitled to do; in which case the estate was good, so far as his power extended to make it, but no further, Finch, L. 190; 1 Rep. 44. The learning … Wm. 4, c. 27), which provides (s. 39) that no discontinuance shall thereafter avail to take away the right of entry. Discontinuance by the plaintiff in an action in the High Court is governed by R. S.
Ballot
of States, 5th Edn., July 2000. Ballot, is held through computerised auto-ballot systems in the presence of as far as possible one or more members and in case no sitting member is available in the presence of … of Rajya Sabha, 2002, Edn., p. 11. Ballot, is held every week by the Speaker to determine the right to choose the subject and initiate the discussion during the interval of half-an-hour between the moving of the
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Water and watercourse
the other, in which latter case (unless the stream be navigable, for then the bed of it, so far at least as the tide of the case flows, presumably belongs to the Crown) the proprietor of each … e.g. 'twenty acres of land covered with water.'-Brownl. 142. See POOL. By granting a certain water, though the right of fishing passes, yet the soil does not. Water being a movable, wandering thing, there can be only
Law of Property Act, 1925 (English)
it in exercise of his powers as such owner, cannot take advantage of the curtain except in so far as it may have been properly used in connection with any link in his own title; see further, … 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 the Acts all equitable
Simony
not been party to any contract to the best of his knowledge simoaniacal, is now superseded by a far more effective and specific declaration scheduled to the Benefices Act, 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. 48), which … or receiving money or gifts in exchange for spiritual promotion, esp. the unlawful buying or selling of a right to present clergy to a vacant benefice, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1388
Winding-up
Winding-up, the process by which an insolvent estate is distributed, as far as it will go, amongst the persons having claims upon it. The term is most frequently applied to … collected and distributed firstly in discharge of its liabilities, and secondly, among its members according to their respective rights with a view to its dissolution. If the assets are not sufficient to meet the liabilities, a company
Magna Carta
our history took place in a small island, still called Magna Charta Island, situated in the Thames, not far from Aukerwyke, in Buckinghamshire. Many originals of the great Charter were made, for the purpose of depositing one … as the foundation of constitution liberties. The other three great charters of English Liberty are the Petition of Right (3 Car. (1628)), the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2 (1679)), and the Bill of Rights (1 Will.
Judgment
Deb Raikot, AIR 1953 SC 198: (1953) SCR 1159. An order of committal which terminates the pro-ceeding so far as the inquiring Court is concerned is a 'judgment' within the meaning of s. 494 of the Criminal … does or does not exist. A judgment, as the culmination of the action, declares the existence of the right, recognises the commission of the injury, or negatives the allegation of one or the other, Gurdit Singh v.
Arm of the sea
the portion of a river or bay in which the tide ebbs and flows. It may extend as far into the interior as the water of the river is ropelled backward by the tide, Black Law Dictionary … to be a bona fide traveller within the meaning of s. 9 of the Licensing Act, 1874, was rightly calculated across an arm of the sea across which there was a public ferry.
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