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Gold-mines, a branch of the ordinary revenue of the kingdom. By 1 W. & M. st. 1, c. 30, and 5 W. & M. c. 6, amended by 55 Geo. 3, c. 134, it is enacted that no mines of copper, tin, iron, or lead shall be looked upon as royal mines, notwithstanding gold or silver may be extracted from them in any quantities; but that the sovereign, or persons claiming under his authority, may have the ore (other than the tin ore in Devon and Cornwall) at a price stated in the Act.As to the transfer of gold and silver mines in the County Palatine of Durham to the Crown, see 6 & 7 Will. 4, c. 19 and 21 & 22 Vict. c. 45...
Annexation
Annexation, the union of lands to the Crown, and declaring them inalienable. Also the appropriation of the church lands by the Crown, and the union of land lying at a distance from the parish church to which they belong, to the church of another parish to which they are contiguous. The permanent occupation by a sovereign state of the territory formerly belonging to another, and see RES NULLIUS. As to concessions granted by the former sovereign prior to annexation, see Cook v. Sprig, 1899 AC 572. The financial liabilities of a conquered state are not after annexation binding on the conquering state. See West Rand Gold Mining Co. v. R., 1905 (2) KB 391.Occurs when the Occupying Power acquires and makes the occupied territory as its own. Annexation gives a de jure right to administer the territory. Annexation means that there is not only possession but uncontested sovereignty over the territory, Rev. Mons Sebastio Fransisco Xavier Dos Remedios Monterio v. State of Goa, (1969) 3 SCC 419: A...
Proxy
Proxy, a person appointed, usually by written authority, by a person entitled to vote personally, to vote at the discretion of the proxy. See Harben v. Phillips, (1883) 23 Ch D p. 35.As to voting by proxy under the (English) Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 16), see sections 76, 77 of that Act; amended in the case of a company being shareholder, by the Companies Clauses Acts, 1888 and 1889.A letter 'for the sole purpose of appointing or authorizing a proxy to vote at any one meeting at which votes may be given by proxy, whether the number of persons named in such instrument be one or more,' must bear a penny stamp, must specify the day on which the meeting is to be held, and is to be available only at the meeting so specified, and any adjournment thereof [(English) Stamp Act, 1891, and First Schedule]. The Standing Orders of Parliament (L.S.O. 62 and C.S.O. 62) prohibit the sending out of stamped proxies in connection with extension bills. Directors, acting in ...
Public policy
Public policy, connotes some matter which concerns public good and the public interest. Expression does not admit of precise definition. Concept of 'public policy' is considered to be vague, susceptible to narrow or wider meaning depending upon the content in which it is used, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. v. Saw Pipes Ltd., AIR 2003 SC 2629.Public policy, connotes some matter which concerns the public good and the public interest, Central Inland Water Transport Corporation Ltd. v. Broja Nath Ganguly, AIR 1986 SC 1571; Shri Parsar v. Municipal Board, (1997) 1 WLC 443.Public policy, demands that where fraud might have been contemplated but was not perpetrated, the defendants should not be allowed to perpetrate a new fraud. If the illegality of the transaction is trivial or venial and the plaintiff is not required to rest his case upon that illegality, then public policy demands that the defendant should not be allowed to take advantage of the position, Kedar Nath Motani v. Prahla...
Royal mines
Royal mines, gold and silver mines; the Crown has a right of pre-emption of any gold or silver found in mines of copper, tin, iron, or lead, by virtue of 1 & 2 W. & M. sess. 1, c. 30, s. 4; 5 & 6 W. & M. c. 6; and 55 Geo. 3, c. 134....
goldfield
a district where gold is mined...
Bonanza
In mining a rich mine or vein of silver or gold hence anything which is a mine of wealth or yields a large income...
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