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Weights and measures
on conviction of any offence (instead of only on conviction of a second or subsequent offence) committed with intent to defraud, that local authorities, under the Act of 1889 only enabled to provide working standards of measure … weights and measures, obliteration of stamps, application of tests of accuracy, limits of error to be allowed, 'and generally for the guidance of local authorities,' but adds that these regulations may confer on local authorities power to
agency
written or spoken words of the principal authorizing the agent to act compare implied agency in this entry general agency : an agency in which the agent is authorized to perform on behalf of the principal in … this entry implied agency : an actual agency created by acts of a principal that reasonably imply an intention to create an agency relationship compare express agency in this entry ostensible agency : agency by estoppel in
Mens rea
a guilty mind. See ACTUS NON FACIT REUM, NISI MENS SIT REA. Although prima facie and as a general rule there must be a mind at fault before there can be a crime, it is not an … a subject-matter and may be so framed as to make an act criminal, whether there has been any intention to break the law or otherwise to do wrong or not. There is a large body of municipal
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presumption
mandatory presumption in this entry presumption of fact : a presumption founded on a previous experience or on general knowledge of a connection between a known fact and one inferred from it presumption of innocence : a … a criminal action imposing on the prosecution the burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt presumption of intent : a permissive presumption that if a criminal defendant committed an act it was his or her intent
principal
as a : one who engages another to act for him or her subject to his or her general control or instruction : one from whom an agent derives authority to act compare fiduciary b : one … or actually present see also accessory principal in the first degree : a principal under common law who intentionally commits and is actually or constructively present at the commission of a crime principal in the second degree
For the time being
time being' indicates an indefinite period of time depending upon the context in which the phrase is used. Generally it denotes an indefinite period of time, meaning thereby, the position as existing at the time of application … to whether it is for one time or for indefinite period of time, the context, purpose and the intention of the use of the phrase will have to be seen and examined, Union Territory of Chandigarh v.
Desertion
circumstances and of modes of life involved, the Court has discouraged attempts at defining desertion, there being no general principle applicable to all cases. Desertion is not the withdrawal from a place but from a state of … on the subject in these terms:' Desertion is the separation of one spouse from the other, with an intention on the part of the deserting spouse of bringing cohabitation permanently to an end without reasonable cause and
Uses
19 Hen. 7, c. 15, extended, for the first time, the estate of the cestui que use. In general, however, there was but little difference in the terms 'use' and trust. See OFFICIAL USE; ACTIVE USE; PASSIVE … Uses (History). A use is the intention or purpose, express or implied, upon which property is to be held. The Common Law treated the actual
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 … exonerate the estate (for he might, if he pleased, have acquired the fee-simple), unless he evince the contrary intention by taking as assignment of the incumbrance to a trustee in trust for himself, or by some other
Pardon
day of February, 1896, convicted on certain charges of obtaining rings and other Articles by false pretences with intent to defraud, and was sentenced to seven years penal servitude; We in consideration of some circumstances humbly represented
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