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Derelict Lands

but if the sea shrink back so slowly that the gain be by little and little, it shall go to the owner of the lands adjoining, 2 Bl. Com. 261; Coulson and Forbes on the Law of

Loan

according to the agreement. In the case of a deposit it is the duty of the depositor to go to the depositee and to make a demand for it, Gurcharan Das v. Ram Rakha Mal, AIR 1937

Cross-remainders

to several persons in tail as tenants-in-common, and it appears to be the testator's intention that nopart should go over until the failure of the issue of all the tenants-in-common, they take cross-remainders in tail amongst themselves.

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Crown lands

5, c. 23), the Commissioners of Works; the Board of Trade; the Forestry Commissionrs; the Treasury. The revenues go to the Consolidated Fund, and they are managed under a series of (English) Crown Lands Acts, from the

Dancing hall

the cosmopolitan cities in this country, even today, one finds number of dancing halls and discotheques where people go in the evenings and entertain themselves. There seems to be no difference in a 'dancing hall' and a

Day-rule, or day-writ

Day-rule, or day-writ, a permission to a prisoner to go out of prison, for the purpose of transacting his business, as to hear a case in which he

Defendemus

used in grants and donations, which binds the donor and his heirs to defend the donee, if anyone go about to lay any incumbrance on the thing given other than what is contained in the deed of

Deputation

corresponding acceptance of such services by the borrowing employer. It also involves the consent of the employee to go on deputation or not, Umapati Choudhary v. State of Bihar, (1999) 4 SCC 659: AIR 1999 SC 1948

Eat inde sine die

Eat inde sine die, words used on the acquittal of a defendant, 'that he may go thence without a day,' i.e., be dismissed without any further trial or adjournment.

Free fight

Free fight, A freefight is one where both sides mean to fight from the start, go out to fight and there is pitched battle. The question of who attacks and who defends in such

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