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Marriage

license without consent where the parties had subsequently lived together until the passing of the Act. Present Law.--The general purport of the existing law is to require a public ceremony by a clergyman of the Church of

Public prosecutor

State of Bihar v. Kameshwar Singh, AIR 1952 SC 252. Public purpose, include the purpose in which the general interest of the society as opposed to the particular interest of the individual is directly and vitally concerned, … or an Additional Public Prosecutor or a Special Public Prosecutor appointed under s. 28 and includes any person acting under the directions of the Public Prosecutor. [Prevention of Terrorism Act, 2002 (15 of 2002), s. 2(1)(e)] Means

Tail

an equitable interest in tail, is an estate limited to a person and the heirs of his body general or special, male or female, and was the creature of the statute De Donis. The estate, if the … taken realty as heir of the body or as tenant by the curtesy if the Law of Property Act, 1925, had not been passed [s. 130 (4) (ibid.)] The limitation of an estate so that it can

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India

Bharat, a Union of States, Constitution of India, Art. 1. India, in 1876, by the (English) Royal Titles Act, 1876 (39 & 40 Vict. c. 6), Queen Victoria was empowered to add to the style of the

Food

PRODUCE; AGRICULTURAL MARKETING; (English) Public Health (Regulations as to Food) Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 32). See generally, ADULTERATION, also (English) Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1927. Means any article of nourishment for human con-sumption

Paymaster-General (see now Accountant-General

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Act of Parliament

is a further class of Acts which contain clauses frequently required in local Acts. The provisions of such general Acts are incorporated in private Acts by reference, e.g., Railways Clauses Act, 1863. Is a law made by

Sale price

of Rajasthan, AIR 1971 SC 2054: (1971) 2 SCC 532. (ii) Under s. 4 of the Madhya Pradesh General Sales Tax Act, 1958 the liability to pay tax is that of the dealer. The purchaser has no

Rate

body for a public purpose, as a poor rate, a highway rate, a sewers rate, upon, as a general rule, the occupiers of property within a parish or other area. Proportional or relative value; the proportion of … mean a charge by a water, gas, railway, or other public undertaking for services rendered e.g., (English) Railways Act, 1921, s. 20; Metropolitan Water Board Charges Act, 1921 (11 & 12 Geo. 5, c. xciv.). The poor

Sessions of the peace

bylaw to e held at particular periods, as bys. 10 of the (English) Licensing (Consolidation) Act, 1910, a general annual licensing meeting within the irst fourteen days of February, for licensing alehouses and victualling-houses to sell excisable

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