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performance
performance of the essential terms of a contract, promise, or obligation [a contractor is not entitled to a lien in the absence of substantial performance "Casa Linda Tile & Marble Installers, Inc. v. Highlands Place 1981 Ltd.,
Officiating
is appointed to a post in a higher rank, but not permanently or substantively, while still retaining his lien on his substantive post, Arun Kumar Chatterjee v. South Eastern Railway, AIR 1985 SC 482 (485): (1985) 2 … Officiating, according to its ordinary connotation, the word 'officiating' is generally used when a servant having held one post permanently of substantively, is appointed to a post in a
mortgage
those imposed by law fixed rate mortgage : a mortgage having an interest rate that stays the same general mortgage in the civil law of Louisiana : a blanket mortgage that burdens all present and future property … [shows that a deed was intended only as a "W. M. McGovern, Jr. et al."] b : a lien against property that is granted to secure an obligation (as a debt) and that is extinguished upon payment
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Joint-tenancy
Should one expend money in the repair and improvement of the estate, he will have a claim or lien on the estate for the amount of such money. (3) When partners in trade purchase property for the … fractions of estates, and returning to early principles the (English) Land Legislation of 1925 has employed the tenure generally as the machinery by which legal estate may in such cases always be in some person, called the
conversion
tort of interfering with the ownership of another's movable or personal property without authorization or justification (as a lien) and esp. of depriving the owner of use and possession see also fraudulent conversion … theft, destruction, seizure, requisition, or condemnation of the original property NOTE: For income tax purposes, involuntary conversions are generally taxable, and the gain or loss is computed by offsetting the basis of the property against the compensation
Goods
can ordinarily come to the market to be bought and sold, Union of India v. Delhi Cloth and General Mills Co. Ltd., AIR 1973 SC 791: (1963) 1 Supp SCR 586. Goods includes all types of movable … the market as such. It cannot mean the case papers, entitling their retention by the lawyer as his lien for the purpose of realizing his fee, R.D. Saxena v. Balram Prasad Sharma, (2000) 7 SCC 264; Also
Transfer
includes sale, purchase, mortgage, pledge, gift, loan or any other form of transfer of right, title, possession or lien. [Prevention of Money-Launder-ing Act, 2002, s. 2(za)] Transfer, includes surrender. Where a tribal surrenders the land and his … 1996 SC 704. [Chhotanagpur Tenancy Act (6 of 1908), s. 46(4) (a)] Transfer, is comprehensive and is regarded generally as comprehending within its scope transfers both of the voluntary and involuntary kinds. Without more, there is no
Innkeeper
Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 792. Innkeeper, proprietor of a common inn for the accommodation of travelers in general. All persons are deemed innkeepers who keep houses where a traveler is furnished, for profit, with everything which … if they can accommodate them, at a reasonable charge, provided they behave themselves properly; and they have a lien upon the goods of their guests for board and lodging, but may not detain their persons or seize
Stop Order
the Paymaster-General (formerly the Accountant-General of the Court of Chancery: see (English) Chancery Funds Act, 1872) to the general credit of any cause, or to the account of any class or classes of persons, assign his interest … of such tock or funds, or any part thereof, without notice to him. And a person having a lien on a fund in Court may obtain a stop order. See (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XLVI.; and consult
Rescission
Rescission, annulment or destruction. A general term for the repudiation and annulment of any contract or transaction: see (English) Sale of Goods Act, 1893. … Lipski, (1901) 2 Ch 666. Where a purchaser rescinds under a power in the contract he has a lien for his deposit, Whitbread & Co. v. Watt, (1902) 1 Ch 835, but before 1926 the purchaser in
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