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lateen sail
A triangular sail extended by a long yard which is slung at about one fourth of its length from the lower end to a low mast this end being brought down at the … brought down at the tack while the other end is elevated at an angle or about forty five degrees used in small boats feluccas xebecs etc especially in the Mediterranean and adjacent waters Some lateen sails have
Void
a court of competent jurisdiction. Until its validity is challenged, its legality is preserved', Halsbury's Laws of England, 4th Edn., (Re-issue), Vol. 1(1), para 26, p. 31. Void, has a relative rather than an absolute meaning. It … in principal be null and void for all purposes; and it has been said that there are no degrees of nullity. Even though such an act is wrong and lacking in jurisdiction, however, it subsists and remains
University
university seems to be that it was incorporated as such by the sovereign power, Halsbury's Laws of England, 4th Edn., Vol. 15. Means University defined under cl. (f) of s. 2 of the University Grants Commission Act, … Disqualification (Removal) Act, 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 71), empowered universities to admit women to membership, degrees, and see infra. Parliamentary Franchise.-Oxford and Cambridge had the franchise for two members each from the earliest times;
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Collision of ships
by the party on whom it happens to light, the other not being responsible to him in any degree. Secondly, a misfortune of this kind may arise where both parties are to blame, where there has been … from the other.' In a Court of Common Law the same rule prevailed in the 1st, 3rd, and 4th cases; but in the 2nd, viz., where both parties are to blame, the rule was that if the
Institutions
paragraphs. The first book of the Institutes has twenty-six titles, the second twenty-five, the third thirty, and the fourth eighteen; in all, ninety-nine titles. First, it is to be observed that the division is triple--Persons, Tings, and … to Intestates, to which the cognati, or female side, were admitted by the Pr'torian equity, according to the degree of cognation. The Title, in conclusion, treats of those who were excluded from this P'torian succession, because allied
Hire
to employ the materials furnished by the employer in a proper manner; and, lastly, to exercise a proper degree of care and diligence about the work. The hiring of care and attention. To this class belong a … into two branches: (a) Locatio operis faciendi, and (b) locatio operis mercium vehendarum, mentioned as the 2nd and 4th divisions of the four sorts of hiring above set forth. (a) The locatio operis faciendi may be subdivided
Rent
a certainty by either party; it must issue yearly, though it may be reserved every second, third, or fourth year; it must issue out of the thing granted, and not be part of the land or the … due by the executors of a tenant was, before 32 & 33 Vict. c. 46, of a higher degree than simple contract debts, and of equal degree with specialty debts; but that Act has abolished the priority,
Habitually
of some tendency, something that has developed into a propensity, that is, present from day-to-day, Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, Fourth Edn., Vol. 2, p. 1204, Vijay Narain Singh v. State of Bihar, AIR 1984 SC 1334 (1338): (1984) … (2071): (1990) 4 SCC 552. [Gujarat Prevention of Anti-Social Activities Act, 1985, s. 2(c)] The word 'habitually'connotes some degree of fre-quency and continuity. It requires a continuance and permanence of some tendency, something that has developed into
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