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Gratuity

undergone a metamorphosis over the years. The dictionary meaning may suggest that gratuity is a gratuitous payment, a gift or a boon made by the employer to the employee as per his sweet-will. It necessarily means that

Fundamental right

Fundamental right is a limitation on the power of State. If is not to be regarded as a gift from State to its citizens but possessed by an individual independently by reason of basic fact that they

Freedom of a borough

away; but the Act of 1835, s. 3, enacted that no person should be admitted a freeman by gift or purchase, and s. 202 of the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, repeats this enactment, which is, however,

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Foundation

politic capacity, the act of incorporation is metaphorically called the foundation, but as to the dotation, the first gift of the revenues is called the foundation, and he who gives it is the founder in law [Sutton's

Fee-simple

et seq., ibid. The incidents of a fee-simple are: a power of management and of alienation, whether by gift, sale, or will; and until 1926 were descent to the heirs of an intestate owner; and escheat (see

Executed fine

or a fine upon acknowledgment of the right of the cognizee, as that which he has of the gift of the cognizor. Abolished by the (English) Fines and Recoveries Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c.

Endowment

s. 62 of the Charitable Trusts Act, 1853, see Re Clergy Orphan Corporation, (1894) 3 Ch 145. A gift of money or property to an institution (such as university) for a specific purpose esp. in which the

Dower

Dower [fr. dos, dotis, Lat., a marriage gift; dotare dower, Fr., endow, to furnish with a marriage portion. Dotarium, M. Lat., dotaire, Prov.; douaire, Fr.; a

Donee

Donee [fr. dono, Lat.], one to whom a gift is made. Donee, the person recipient of the authority, termed the donee, Halsbury's Laws of England 1(2), para

Donative

subject by his license, founded a church or chapel, and ordained that it should be merely in the gift or disposal of the patron; subject to his visitation only, and not to that of the ordinary; and

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