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Administration

Property) Ordinance, 1949 (15 of 1949)] Administration means 'management of affairs' of the institution. This management must be free of control so that the founders or their nominees can mould the institution as they think fit, and … must be free of control so that the founders or their nominees can mould the institution as they think fit, and in accordance with their ideas of how the interest of the community in general and the

Copyhold

manor. The tenant may have the same quantities of interest in this tenure as he may enjoy in freeholds, as an estate in fee-simple or (by particular custom) fee-tail, or for life, and he may have only … the rolls of the court, which he can inspect and take copies of to use as he may think proper; and the Court of Queen's Bench (now the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice)

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Company

laissez-faire held sway and it dominated the political and economic scene. This doctrine glorified the concept of a free economic society in which State intervention in social and economic matters was kept at the lowest possible level. … in order to bring about general welfare and common good of the community. With this change in socio-economic thinking, the developing role of companies in modern economy and their increasing impact on individuals and groups, through the

Prerogative of mercy

felony were regularly granted in order that the offender might transport himself for a term of years. formerly free pardons were only grantable under the Great Seal, but by s. 13 of the Criminal Law Act, 1827 … cd. 523), and by the Beck Commission in 1904 (Parl. Pap. 1904, cd. 2315, Rep.), may, if he thinks fit, be avoided under the provision in the Criminal Appeal Act, 1907, s. 19, by which the Home

Tenure

mode of holding property. The only tenures in land now existing with a few unimpor-tant exceptions are (1) free and common socage in fee-simple, including enfranchised copyhold, which is subject to paramount incidents; and (2) a term … marriage of heirs succeeding in infancy and escheat. Grand serjeanty was another species of tenure which some writes think was superior to knight-service, whereby the tenant was bound, instead of serving the king generally in the wars,

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