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Hire

Hire [locatio, conductio, Lat.], a bailment for a reward or compensation. It is divisible into four sorts:-(1) The hiring of a thing for use (locatio rei). (2) The hiring of work and labour (locatio operis faciendi)....

Holder of a share

Holder of a share, the words 'holder of a share' are really equal to the word 'shareholder', and the expression 'holder of a share' denotes, in so far as the company is concerned, only a person...

Implied promise

Implied promise, In so far as such proposal or acceptance is made otherwise than in words, the promise is said to be implied. [Indian Contract Act, 1872, s. 9]

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Inferior Courts (UK)

Inferior Courts (UK). They are the Court baron, the hundred Court, the borough civil Court, the County Court, the Mayor's Court, London, and also all courts of a special jurisdiction; but the county Courts are by...

Kenyon-Slaney Clause

Kenyon-Slaney Clause, s. 7 (6) of the (English) Education Act, 1902 (2 Ed. 7, c. 42), and is as follows:- (6) Religious instruction given in a public elementary school not provided by the local education authority...

Inland revenue

Inland revenue. That portion (by far the largest) of the public revenue (which is derived from the taxation of home commodities and duties on property and income, houses, stamps, probates, legacies, etc., as distinguished from the...

Inquisition

Inquisition, inquiry, inquest; the finding of a tribunal charged to inquire. The three best known inquisitions are:- 1. A coroner's inquisition, which is [see (English) Coroners Act,1887, s. 4, sub-s. 3] a certificate of the verdict...

Institutions

Institutions. It was the object of Justinian to comprise in his Code and Digest, or Pandects, a complete body of law. But these works were not adapted to the purposes of elementary instruction, and the writings...

Interlineation

Interlineation, the insertion of any matter in a writ-ten instrument after it is engrossed or executed. A deed may be avoided by interlineation, unless a memorandum be made thereof at the time of the execution or...

International Law

International Law. I. Public Law: The law of nations, strictly so called, was in a great measure unknown to antiquity, and is the slow growth of modern times, under the combined influence of Christianity, intercourse, commerce...

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Hire

Hire [locatio, conductio, Lat.], a bailment for a reward or compensation. It is divisible into four sorts:-(1) The hiring of a thing for use (locatio rei). (2) The hiring of work and labour (locatio operis faciendi)....

Holder of a share

Holder of a share, the words 'holder of a share' are really equal to the word 'shareholder', and the expression 'holder of a share' denotes, in so far as the company is concerned, only a person...

Implied promise

Implied promise, In so far as such proposal or acceptance is made otherwise than in words, the promise is said to be implied. [Indian Contract Act, 1872, s. 9]

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Inferior Courts (UK)

Inferior Courts (UK). They are the Court baron, the hundred Court, the borough civil Court, the County Court, the Mayor's Court, London, and also all courts of a special jurisdiction; but the county Courts are by...

Kenyon-Slaney Clause

Kenyon-Slaney Clause, s. 7 (6) of the (English) Education Act, 1902 (2 Ed. 7, c. 42), and is as follows:- (6) Religious instruction given in a public elementary school not provided by the local education authority...

Inland revenue

Inland revenue. That portion (by far the largest) of the public revenue (which is derived from the taxation of home commodities and duties on property and income, houses, stamps, probates, legacies, etc., as distinguished from the...

Inquisition

Inquisition, inquiry, inquest; the finding of a tribunal charged to inquire. The three best known inquisitions are:- 1. A coroner's inquisition, which is [see (English) Coroners Act,1887, s. 4, sub-s. 3] a certificate of the verdict...

Institutions

Institutions. It was the object of Justinian to comprise in his Code and Digest, or Pandects, a complete body of law. But these works were not adapted to the purposes of elementary instruction, and the writings...

Interlineation

Interlineation, the insertion of any matter in a writ-ten instrument after it is engrossed or executed. A deed may be avoided by interlineation, unless a memorandum be made thereof at the time of the execution or...

International Law

International Law. I. Public Law: The law of nations, strictly so called, was in a great measure unknown to antiquity, and is the slow growth of modern times, under the combined influence of Christianity, intercourse, commerce...

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