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Guillotine
Guillotine, is an instrument for beheading, Webster's American Dictionary, p. 849. Is a method of preventing obstruction by fixing times at which parts of Bill must be voted on, The Concise Oxford Dictionary, H.W. Fowler and...
Habitatio
Habitatio. The nature of this personal servitude is not obvious. Some jurists confound it with the right to use a house; but Justinian declares it to be quite distinct both from the jus utendi and the...
Holiday, or Holyday
Holiday, or Holyday, a feast day with cessation from labour, as by 5 & 6 Edw. 6, c. 3, all Sundays in the year and also Christmas-day and other days by that Act commanded 'to be...
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Honestly
Honestly, An authority is not acting honestly where as authority has suspicion that there is something wrong and does not make further enquiries, Municipality of Bhiwandi etc. v. Kailash Sizing Works, AIR 1975 SC 529 (531)....
House
House, means any hut, shop, warehouse, workshop, masonry or framed. [Manipur Municipalities Act, 1994 (43 of 1994), s. 2(22)] A home, dwelling, or residence, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 743. The expression 'the house' will...
Extend
Extend, to value the lands, etc., of one bound by a statute, who has forfeited his bond, at their yearly value, so that it may be known when the creditor will be paid his debt. See...
Executrix
Executrix, a woman appointed by a testator to perform his will. By the (English) Married Women's Property Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 75), s. 18, a married woman appointed an executrix may sue and...
Exhausted paper
Exhausted paper, means a ballot paper on which no further preference is recorded for a continuing candidate; provided that a paper shall be deemed to be exhausted in any case in which-- (a) the names of...
Demurrage
Demurrage, a term used in commercial navigation, signifying on allowance made to the owners of a ship by the freighter, for detaining her in port longer than the period agreed upon for her sailing. It is...
Cross-examination
Cross-examination, the examination of a witness by the opposite side, generally after examination in chief, but some times without such examination; as in the case of an examination on the voir dire, which is in the...
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