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Milk
1317. The Scotch Act is 4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 46. In common parlance 'milk' means the full cream milk as milched from the cattle. It becomes skimmed milk when cream, i.e. fat is extracted from … 2(i) Iia) after amendment by Act 34 of 1976 (b), (c) or (d). While 'milk' is a generic term, the identity of the article of food is dependent on the source. 'Cow's milk', 'buffalo's milk', 'goat's milk',
Insurance
required; and in such a case it is done by different offices. To prevent frauds by insuring the full value in various offices, there is, in the proposals issued, an article requiring notice of any other insurance … the policy, unless there be some other time specified. Policies of insurance may be annual, or for a term of years at an annual premium; and it is usual for the office, by way of indulgence, to
Idiot
purposes of the Act (ss. 27 et seq.). The (English) Idiots Act, 1886, is repealed (s. 67), and full provision is made for the care and protection in every way of the persons to whom the Act … and Mental Deficiency; Mills and Poyser's Lunacy Practice. Idiot, means a person afflicted with profound mental retardation. The term has largely fallen out of use in modern legal and medical contexts, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p.
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Acquintance
by which one is discharged from a debt or other obligation, a receipt or release indications payment in full, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 24. Acquittance is a discharge in writing of a sum of money … in Law that he cannot demand and recover the sum or duty again, if the acquittance be produced, Termes de la Ley. As to forgery of an acquittance. [see (English) Forgery Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo.
Accord
(1884) 9 App Cas 605. So also if a smaller sum is sent by a third party 'in full settlement' and retained; Punamchand v. Temple, 1911 (2) KB 330; 80 LJ KB 1155. A substituted agreement may … debtor to his creditor on account and accepted by the latter and nothing is said as to the terms on which it is given, the legal effect of the transaction is that the original debt remains, but
Wages
the country Court, by s. 77 of the (English) County Courts Act, 1934, as if he were of full age. Wages of any 'servant, labourer, or workman' cannot be attached to satisfy judgments, (English) Wages Attachment Abolition … any bonus or other additional remunera-tion etc., and any sum 'payable to such person by reason of the termination of his employment, A.R. Sarin v. B.C. Patil, AIR 1951 Bom 423. Means remuneration payable to an employee
Partition
the net proceeds of sale have under the trusts affecting the same become absolutely vested in persons of full age in undivided shares (whether or not such shares may be subject to a derivative trust) the trustees … assigned to the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice. [(English) Jud. Act, 1873, s. 34] The term 'partition' in sub-s. (3) of s. 36 therefore must be given the same meaning as in s. 36(2)(h)
University
that by means of divers restrictions, tests, and disabilities many of her Majesty's subjects are debarred from the full enjoyment of the same,' makes various provisions for the removal of religious tests. See Reg. v. Hertford College, … Ambedkar University established under this Act. [Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University Act, 1994 (58 of 1994), s. 2(u)] The term 'university' is usually understood to mean a body incorporated for the purpose of learning with various endowments and
Debenture
on calls made but not paid; on a ship; on goodwill or patent or trade mark (see the full list in s. 79) will be void as against the liquidator and any creditor of the company unless … repayment at a time fixed of money lent by person therein named at a given interest, but the term is a very elastic one. The word 'debenture' is of ancient origin and appears to have been in
Valuation
SCC 720. Means the act or process of valuing, Jensen v. Jensen, 458 NW 2d 391 (1990). This term is generally applied to the equivalent in money of any kind of property. Thus for the payment of … has almost invariably to be undertaken whenever land is compulsorily acquired. The difficulties that surround this question were fully considered in the case of Re Lucas and Chesterfield Gas and Water Board, (1909) 1 KB 16, in
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