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General words, the clause immediately following the parcels in a conveyance and commencing 'together with all buildings fixtures fences commons ways,' etc. These general words as particularized in s. 62 of (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, replacing s. 6 of the Conveyancing Act, 1881, are impliedly contained in a conveyance of land by virtue of that enactment, before the passing of which it was necessary to particularize them in the conveyance itself...
Deed
Deed [fr. d'd, Sax.; ded gaded, Goth.;daed, Dut.], a formal document on paper or parchment duly signed, sealed, and delivered. It is either an indenture (factum inter partes) needing an actual indentation [(English) Real Property Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 106), s. 5], reproduced by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 56 (2), made between two or more persons in different interests, or a deed-poll (charta de una parte) made by a single person or by two or more persons having similar interests. By the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 57, a deed may be described according to the nature of the transaction, e.g., 'this lease,' 'this mortgage,' etc., or as a 'deed' and not habitually by the word 'indenture.'The requisites of a deed are these:-(1) Sufficient parties and a proper subject of assurance.(2) It must be written, engrossed, printed, or lithographed, or partly written or engrossed, and partly printed or lithographed in any character or in any language, on paper, vellum, or parchm...
Act of Parliament
Act of Parliament, a law made by the sovereign, with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons, in Parliament assembled (1 Bl. Com. 85); but, in the case of an Act passed under the provisions of the (English) Parliament Act, 1911, a law made by the sovereign 'by and with the advice and consent of the Commons in this present Parliament assembled in accordance with the provisions of the Parliament Act, 1911, and by authority of the same'; also called a 'statute.'Means a bill passed by two Houses of Parliament and assented to by the President and in the absence of an express provision to the contrary, operative from the date of notification in the Gazette, Handbook for Members of Rajya Sabha, April, 2002.Means an action; a thing done or established; a written law formally passed by the legislative power of a State; a Bill enacted by the legislature into a law, as distinguished from a bill which is in the form of draft of a law or legislative proposal pres...
Meaning of words
Meaning of words, The rule is that when general words follow particular and specific words of the same nature, the general words must be confined to the things of the same kind as those specified, Kavalappara Kottarathil Kochuni v. States of Madras and Kerala, AIR 1960 SC 1080: (1960) 3 SCR 887...
Mental reservation
Mental reservation, a silent exception to the general words of a promise or agreement not expressed, on account of a general understanding on the subject. But the word has been applied to an exception existing in the mind of the one party only, and has been degraded to signify a dishonest excuse for evading or infringing a promise...
Ejusdem generis
Ejusdem generis (of the same kind or nature).of the same kind or nature, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 535.This term is chiefly used in cases where general words have a meaning attributed to them less comprehensive than they would otherwise bear, by reason of particular words preceding them: e.g., the (English) Sunday Observance Act, 1677 (29 Car. 2, c. 7), enacts that no tradesman, artificer, workman, labourer, 'or other person whatsoever,' shall follow his ordinary calling on Sunday; here [see Sandiman v. Breach, (1827) 7 B&C 96] the word 'person' is confined to those of callings of the same kind as those specified by the preceding words, so as not to include a farmer. The ejusdem generis rule, as it is called, is one of the rules of construction applied by the Court in construing documents of all kinds, whether statutes, deeds, wills, mercantile docu-ments, or others. For a discussion of the rule, see Tillmanns & Co. v. S.S. Knutsford, Ltd., (1908) 2 KB 385, affirmed, (1908) ...
Ordinarily
Ordinarily, may means 'normally', State of Andhra Pradesh v. V. Sharma Rao, AIR 2007 SC 137; Kailash Chandra v. Union of India, (1962) 1 SCR 374: AIR 1961 SC 1346; Krishan Gopal v. Shri Prakash Chandra, (1974) 1 SCC 128.Means 'normally', 'usually', 'in the ordinary course' etc., Y.K. Bammi v. Jawahar Lal Nehru University, AIR 1993 Del 239.Means in the large majority of cases but not invariably, Kailash Chandra v. Union of India, AIR 1961 SC 1346 (1349): (1962) 1 SCR 374. [Indian Railway Establishment Code, Rule 2046 (2)(a)]The word 'ordinarily' necessarily implies the exclusion of 'extraordinary' or 'special' circum-stances, Eicher Tractors Ltd. v. Commissioner of Customs, (2001) 1 SCC 315: AIR 2001 SC 196 (198). [Customs Act, 1962, s. 14(1)]Means in the large majority of cases but not invariably, Kailash Chandra v. Union of India, (1962) 1 SCR 374: AIR 1961 SC 1346.The word 'ordinarily' may mean 'normally'. But, the said expression must be understood in the content in which it has bee...
ejusdem generis rule
ejusdem generis rule : a rule of construction: general words (as in a statute) that follow specific words in a list must be construed as referring only to the types of things identified by the specific words ...
Generale dictum generaliter est interpretandum: generalia verba sunt generaliter intelligenda
Generale dictum generaliter est interpretandum: generalia verba sunt generaliter intelligenda [Lat.] , A general saying is to be interpreted generally: general words are to be understood generally...
Generalia Specialibus non derogant
Generalia Specialibus non derogant [Lat.], General things do not derogate from special, Patna Improvement Trust v. Lakshmi Devi, AIR 1963 SC 1077 (1081, 1082)Generalia specialibus non derogant. (General words do not derogate from special) Jenk. Cent. 123, cited in Earl of Derby v. Bury Improvement Commissioners, (1869) LR 4 Exch 226....
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