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Vesting

plenary connotation, while 'shall vest in the Gaon Sabha' imports a qualified disposition confined to the right to full possession and enjoyment so long as it lasts, Maharaj Singh v. State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1976 SC … owner. For the contents, see s. 8 and 1st Sch. (ibid.) and VESTING DEED and VESTING INSTRUMENT. The term 'vesting assent' should be distinguished from an assent by personal representatives (see ASSENT), which vests the property in

Rent

quit-rents, because thereby the tenant goes quit and free of all services. (6) Rack-rent, a rent of the full value of the tenement, or near it. See RACK-RENT. (7) Fore-hand-rent, otherwise called rent payable in advance. See … two fold nature--first, as some-thing issuing out of the land, as a compensation for the possession during the term; and secondly, as an acknowledgment made by the tenant to the lord of his fealty or tenure. It

Parties

concerned in any deed or act; litigants. The Rules of the Supreme Court, 1883, Ord. XVI., make very full provision as to the joinder of parties and the consequences of misjoinder and non-joinder. All persons may be … at any stage of the proceedings, either upon or without the application of either party, and on such terms as may appear to the court or a judge to be just, order that the names of any

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Bond

the obligor does or forbears from some act, the obligation shall be void, or else shall remain in full force, and the bond is then called a double or conditional one; see Dav. Prec. Vol. V., pt. … Act, 1915, s. 2; and as to larceny thereof, see (English) Larceny Act,1916, ss. 1 and 46. The term 'bond' is also used to denote an acknowledgement of indebtedness for a loan obtained by a Government or

Law

and in inferior courts (Jud. Act, 1873, ss. 24, 89, 91) (now Judicature Act,1925, ss. 36-43, 44, 202), full effect is to be given to all equitable rights. See, further, s. 25 (now Jud. Act, 1925, ss. … of the State of Bombay; The memorandum of Central Government, dated 11th May, 1957 was an approval in terms of the proviso to sub-s. (7) of s. 115 of the States Reorganisation Act. It is, therefore, an

Sessions of the peace

the most important of which is the bailing persons accused of felony, which may be done after a full hearing of evidence on both sides, where the presumption of guilt shall either be weak in itself, or … the commission o the peace and certain Acts of Parliament. The Court is a Court of oyer and terminer, and a Court of record, and not a Court of inferior jurisdiction. The jurisdictional is criminal an civil,

Infant

are voidable. 2. No action shall be brought whereby to charge any person upon any promise made after full age to pay any debt contracted during infancy, or upon and ratification made after age of any promise … Chancery Division of the High Court (Jud. Act, 1925, s. 56), and an infant under such guardianship is termed 'a ward of court.' The Court has jurisdiction to commit a ward of court to prison for contempt

Notice

fide purchaser for a valuable consideration without notice; for, otherwise, such bona fide purchaser would not enjoy the full benefit of his own unexceptionable title. If a person, who has notice (except in the case of a … (1969) 2 SCC 694 AIR 1970 SC 1654 (1656). [Arbitration Act (10 of 1940), s. 14(1)] Notice the term 'notice' is originated from the Latin word 'notifia' which means 'a being known' or a knowing is wide

Clerk

the exercise of arms, and none left to cultivate the sciences but ecclesiastics. Where the canon law has full power, the word 'clerk' comprehends sacerdotes, diaconi, subdiaconi, lectores, acolyti, exorcist', and ostiarii. The word has been anciently … Clerk [fr. cleric, Sax.; clericus, Lat.], originally a learned man or man of letters, whence the term is appropriated to churchmen who were called clerks and now clergymen, the nobility and gentry being bred to

Inns of Chancery

These Regulations, a copy of which can be obtained on application to any one of the Inns, contain full information as to the steps necessary to be taken in order to being called to the Bar. See … time to time agree on certain 'Consolidated Regulations,' as to the admission of students, the mode of keeping terms, the education and examination of students, the calling of stu-dents to the Bar, and the taking out of

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