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Feneration

Feneration [fr. f'neratio, Lat.], usury; the gain of interest; the practice of increasing money by lending. The act or practice of lending money with interest,

Emoluments

deputation. [Employees' State Insurance Corporation (General Provident Fund) Rules, 1995, R. 2 (1) (d)] Any advantage, profit, or gain received as a result of one's employment or one's holding of office, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p.

Domestics

in domestic service, except where the employed in any trade or business carried on for the purpose of gain, is an excepted employment under the (English) Unemployment Insurance Acts, 1935 and 1936 (25 & 26 Geo. 5,

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Doctrine of pari delicto

both parties have voluntarily and by their free will joined hands to flout the law for their mutual gain, Mohd. Salimuddin v. Misri Lal, (1986) 2 SCC 378: AIR 1986 SC 1019: (1986) 1 SCR 622.

Dishonest intention

can be said to have 'dishonest intention' if in taking the property it is his intention to cause gain, by unlawful means, of the property to which the person so gaining is not legally entitled or to

Laundry

1901 (1 Edw. 7,c. 22):- (29) Laundries carried on by way of trade or for the purpose of gain, or carried on as ancillary to another business or incidentally to be purposes of any public institution. The

Larceny

generally, Archbold's or Roscoe's Crim. Evid. and Russell on Crimes. The word larceny in English law contemplates permanent gain or loss and is different from 'theft' under the Indian Penal Code, K.N. Mehra v. State of Rajasthan,

Property

object or corpus of the property. Mere object of property, though it may be a source of economic gain or be a means of production is not the totality of the property, although it is the basic

Law Reform (UK)

omission which gives rise to the cause of action, shall be calculated without reference to any loss or gain to his estate consequent on his death, except that a sum in respect of funeral expenses may be

Recovery

thereof, by judgment; as if a man sue for any land or other thing movable or immovable, and gain a verdict or judgment. A feigned recovery. An abolished common assurance by matter of record, in fraud of

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