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Further relief, further relief must be a relief, flowing directly and necessarily from the declaration sought and a relief appropriate to and necessarily consequent upon the right or title asserted, Babu Puri v. Kaln, AIR 2005 Raj 77.An injunction is a 'further relief' within the meaning of the s. 42 of the Specific Relief Act, 1877, C. Mohammad Yunus v. Syed Unnissa, AIR 1961 SC 808: (1960) 3 SCR 221...
Or, And
Or, And, it would be noticed that the word used after clause (g) and before clause (h) is 'or'. It may mean 'and' in the context, or remain 'or' in the disjunctive sense in a given case. If any further relief is asked for in addition to any of the reliefs mentioned in clauses (a) to (g) as the nature of the case may require, then the word 'or' would mean 'and'. But if the relief asked for is other relief which is not by way of a consequential or additional relief to any of the reliefs in terms of clause (a) to (g), the word 'or' will mean 'or', Charan Singh v. Darshan Singh, AIR 1975 SC 371: (1975) 3 SCR 48: (1975) 1 SCC 298.The word 'or' is normally disjunctive and 'and' is normally conjunctive, but when other part of the same statute or the clear intention of it obligates, they are read as vice versa, Municipal Corporation of Delhi v. Tek Chand Bhatia, AIR 1980 SC 360: (1980) 1 SCC 158: (1980) 1 SCR 910....
Supplemental claim
Supplemental claim, a further claim which was filed when further relief was sought after the bringing of a claim, Sm. Ch. Pr. 655....
Proceeding
Proceeding, includes administrative proceeding, Nathibai v. Maheshwari Samaj Ramola Trust, AIR 1997 MP 19.It includes execution proceedings also, Specific Relief Act, 1963, s. 22.Proceeding, is a term of wide amplitude. It means a prescribed course of action for enforcing or protecting a legal right and further embracing the requisite steps to be taken whether procedural or substantive. Also means forms in which relief is sought before courts of law or before other bodies or authorities determining rights and liabilities and in which actions are brought and defended and the manner of conducting them and the mode of deciding them. All these happenings or events before a labour court or industrial tribunal or any other authority on whom jurisdiction is conferred by law to dispose of contentious matters are understated by the term 'proceeding', Workmen of Bali Singh Bhagwan Singh v. Management, 1968 ILR 2 Punj 371: 1969 Lab IC 581: AIR 1969 Punj 147; K.J. Lingan and A.V. Mahayalam v. Jt. ...
Indorsement of claim
Indorsement of claim. By R.S.C. 1883, Ord. II., r. 1, every writ of summons in the High Court must be indorsed with a statement of the nature of the claim made, or of the relief or remedy required. And by Ord. III. it is further provided that the indorsement of claim shall be made on every writ of summons before it is issued (r. 1). See, further, LEAVE TO DEFEND...
prejudice
prejudice [Old French, from Latin praejudicium previous judgment, damage, from prae- before + judicium judgment] 1 : injury or detriment to one's legal rights or claims (as from the action of another): as a : substantial impairment of a defendant's ability to defend [the court found no to the defendant by the lengthy delay in bringing charges] b : tendency for a decision on an improper basis (as past conduct) by a trier of fact [whether an ex parte communication to a deliberating jury resulted in any reasonable possibility of to the defendant "National Law Journal"] c : implied waiver of rights and privileges not explicitly retained [District Court erred in attaching to prisoner's complaint for injunctive relief "National Law Journal"] 2 : a final and binding decision (as an adjudication on the merits) that bars further prosecution of the same cause of action or motion [dismisses this case with ] [the dismissal was without ] 3 a : an irrational attitude of hostility directed a...
Notice
Notice, the making something known to a person of which he was or might be ignorant. Notice is either (1) statutory; (2) actual, which brings the knowledge of a fact directly home to the party; or (3) constructive or implied, which is no more than evidence of facts which raise such a strong presumption of notice that equity will not allow the presumption to be rebutted. [S. 154, I.P.C. and Art. 61(2)(a) const. 56 Indian Evidence Act]Constructive notice may be subdivided into: (a) where the facts of which actual evidence is supplied give rise to a further enquiry which a man exercising ordinary caution would make equity has added constructive notice of the facts, which that inquiry would have elicited; and (b) where there has been a designed abstinence from inquiry for the very purpose of avoiding notice. See CONSTRUCTIVE NOTICE.A purchaser with notice may protect himself by purchasing the title of another bona fide purchaser for a valuable consideration without notice; for, otherwise, ...
Leave to defend
Leave to defend. The repealed (English) Bills of Exchange Act, 1855 (18 & 19 Vict.c.67), commonly called 'Keating's Act,' allowed actions on bills or notes commenced within six months after being due, to be by writ of summons in a form provided by the Act, and, unless the defendant should within twelve days obtain leave to appear and defend the action, allowed the plaintiff to sign judgment on proof of service. This procedure was retained by the (English) Judicature Act, 1875, Ord. II., r. 6, but abolished in 1880 by Ord. II., r. 6 (annulled 1917).By (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. III., r. 6, as amended by (English) R.S.C. 1933, in respect of forfeiture for non-payment of rent, it is provided that in all actions where the plaintiff seeks merely to recover a debt or liquidated demand (see QUANTUM MERUIT) in money, or possession where a tenancy has expired or been determined by notice to quit, or has become liable to forfeiture for non-payment of rent, the writ of summons may, at the option...
Equity of redemption
Equity of redemption. Before 1926 the equitable estate or interest left in a person after he had mortgaged his property. Now the right to call for a reconveyance of a legal estate or of an equitable interest in property from the mortgagee on payment of principal, interest and costs. A mort-gagee, although he has become absolute owner of a legal estate in the mortgaged property, on account of the breach of the condition for repayment of the loan within the strict time, is nevertheless compelled to reconvey the legal estate to the mortgagor, who applies to redeem it, on payment of the principal, interest, and costs, Equity treating the breach of the condition as a penalty, and the retention for the mortgagee's own benefit of that which was intended simply as a pledge, as contrary to substantial justice.The right or equity of redemption is an essential attribute of a mortgage; it is inherent in the thing itself, and any provision inserted in the mortgage to defeat the right is void as a '...
Vagrants
Vagrants, sturdy beggars; vagabonds.The Act which is now in force, embodying, mitigating, and extending numerous former provisions, is the (English) Vagrancy Act, 1824 (5 Geo. 4, c. 83). It has been extended by the Vagrancy Act, 1838, as to re-commitment on failure to prosecute, appeal, and exhibition of obscene prints; by the (English) Vagrant Act Amendment Act, 1873, as to gambling and betting in streets; by the Vagrancy Act, 1898, amended by the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1912, s. 7, as to men living on earnings of prostitution; and by (English) Poor Law Act, 1930, s. 150, as to obtaining relief by falsehood. It points out three classes of persons:-1st, idle and disorderly persons; 2nd, rogues and vagabonds; 3rd, incorrigible rogues.First. Idle and Disorderly Persons.-The following are, under the Vagrancy Act, 1824, s. 3, to be deemed 'idle and disorderly persons,' so that any justice of the peace may commit them (being convicted before him) to the house of correction to hard labou...
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