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Independent advice

Independent advice, means counsel that is impartial and not given to further the interests of the person giving it. Whether a testator or donor received independent advice before making a disposition is often an important issue...

Infant

Infant [fr. infans, Lat., one who cannot speak], a person under twenty-one years of age, whose acts are in many cases either void or voidable. See AGE. At Common Law, the contracts of infants are divided...

Inferior Courts (UK)

Inferior Courts (UK). They are the Court baron, the hundred Court, the borough civil Court, the County Court, the Mayor's Court, London, and also all courts of a special jurisdiction; but the county Courts are by...

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Injunction

Injunction, Expression 'injunction' in s. 41(b) is not qualified by an adjective and, therefore, it would, comprehend both interim and perpetual injunc-tion, Cotton Corporation of India v. United Industries Ltd., AIR 1983 SC 1272 (1277): (1983)...

Innkeeper

Innkeeper, means a person who, for compensation, keeps open a public house for the lodging and entertainment of travellers. A keeper of a boarding house is usually not considered an innkeeper, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.,...

Institutions

Institutions. It was the object of Justinian to comprise in his Code and Digest, or Pandects, a complete body of law. But these works were not adapted to the purposes of elementary instruction, and the writings...

Insufficiency

Insufficiency, an answer in Chancery was said to be insufficient when it did not specially reply to the specific charges in the bill. If a plaintiff conceived an answer to be insufficient, he might take exception...

Insurance

Insurance, see, Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), s. 80C, Expl. 1. Insurance, the act of providing against a possible loss, by entering into a contract with one who is willing to give assurance, that is,...

Interest

Interest, an interest for the purposes of the regula-tion was not limited to a direct financial interest and included membership of a panel such as the panel of which the claimant's solicitors were members that, therefore,...

Judgment

Judgment [fr. judgment, Fr.], judicial determination; decision of a Court. Under the former practice of the superior Courts, this term was usually applied only to the Common Law Courts, the term 'decree' being in general use...

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