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Election

Election, the word 'election' means any and every act taken by the competent authority after the publication of the election notification, Manda Jaganath v. K.S. Rathnam, (2004) 7 SCC 492: AIR 2004 SC 3601 (3604). The...

Electoral franchise

Electoral franchise. (1) The qualifications entitling persons to vote at Parliamentary elections. A brief sketch of the changes up to 1884 in (a) Counties, and (b) Boroughs is as follows: (a) Originally the freeholders elected the...

Equitable mortgage

Equitable mortgage, a mortgage under which the mortgagee does not get the legal estate. The following mortgages are equitable:- (1) Where the subject of a mortgage is trust property, which security is effected either by a...

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Executed trust

Executed trust, When an estate is conveyed to the use of A. and his heirs, with a simple declaration of trust for B. and his heirs, or the heirs of his body, the trust is perfect;...

Housing of the working classes

Housing of the working classes. The Housing Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5, and 1 Edw. 8, c. 51), replaces with amendments the Housing Acts, 1925, 1930 and 1935, and consolidates the general law on the subject...

Maritime lien

Maritime lien, is well defined to mean a claim or privilege upon a thing to be carried into effect by legal process, that process to be a proceeding in rem ...... This claim or privilege travels...

Implied covenants

Implied covenants. See DEMISE; FURTHER ASSURANCE; QUIET ENJOYMENT; and ss. 76 and 77 and 2nd Sched. (English) Law of Property Act,1925, in regard to assurances as 'beneficial owner.' Formerly, the words 'give' or 'grant' implied covenants...

Money land

Money land. In equity, land articled or devised to be sold, and turned into money, is considered as money, and money articled or bequeathed to be invested in land, has, inequity, many of the qualities of...

Made

Made, the word 'made' in rule 54(2) might refer to the proclamation of sale as well as announcement of the sale, as it says it shall be made and published in the manner provided by rule...

Maintenance

Maintenance, an officious intermeddling in a suit which in no wise concerns one, by assisting either party with money or otherwise to prosecute or defend it; both actionable and indictable [see Bradlaugh v. Newdegate, (1883) 11...

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