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Public service corporation

A corporation such as a railroad company lighting company water company etc organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety

Retinue

The body of retainers who follow a prince or other distinguished person a train of attendants a suite

Procuration

of his authority.'--Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, s. 25. The words 'per pro.' Or 'p.p.' (by procuration) usually follow the signature of an agent, and by s. 26 of the Bills of Exchange Act, a person signing

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Presumption

fact or of law. A pre-sumption is an inference sanctioned by law which does not logically or necessarily follow from the proved facts, State of West Bengal v. Mohd Khalil, (2000) 4 SCC 594 (602).

Plead over

Plead over, to follow up an opponent's pleading by replying, etc., and so overlooking some defect to which exception might have been

Perverse verdict

Perverse verdict, a verdict whereby the jury refuse to follow the direction of the judge on a point of law. See NEW TRIAL.

Personal property

otherwise as may be agreed. But even inequity personalty which has settled either by deed or will to follow the trusts of an equitable entailed estate inland vested absolutely in the first tenant in tail at his

Paranoid schizophrenia

symptom of the early stage. Ideas of reference occur, which gradually develops into delusions of persecution. Auditory hallucinations follow, which in the beginning, start as sound or noises in the ears, but are afterwards changes into abuses

Panth

Sikh religion, because, it has been used by Sikhs to denote their religion and their deno-mination as the followers of that Panth. In that context, Panth may mean the Sikh religion and the followers of the panth

Nonsuit

direct the jury to find a verdict for the defendant, and the usual consequences of such verdict will follow, Fox v. Star Newspaper Co., 1900 AC 19; but a judge cannot order a nonsuit on plaintiff's opening

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