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Reclaiming

Reclaiming, the action of a lord pursuing, pro-secuting, and recalling his vassal, who had gone to live in another place without his permission. Also the demanding of a thing or person to be

Res judicata

a foreign Court, Tarleton v. Tarleton, 4 M&S 21. A matter which is res judicata cannot be further gone into; but if the decision was obtained by fraud it can be set aside, Cole v. Langford, (1898)

Residence

abode at one place the person cannot be said to reside at any other place where he had gone on a causal or temporary visit, e.g. for health or business or for a change. If a person

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To be a witness

'To be a witness' in its ordinary grammatical sense means giving oral testimony in Court. Case law has gone beyond this strict literal interpretation of the expression which may now bear a wider meaning, namely, bearing testimony

Whoever legally bound by an oath or by an express provisions of law to state the truth

is bound to state the truth and he cannot be heard to say that he should not have gone into the witness box or should not have made an affidavit and therefore the submission that any false

Widow

was his wife at the time of his death. A woman surviving a man with whom she has gone through the ceremony of marriage, but with regard to whom she had obtained a declaration of nullity of

Wrongful gain

out of the property as well as being wrongfully deprived of property. Therefore when a particular thing has gone into the hands of a servant he will be guilty of misappropriating the thing in all circumstances which

Issue price

Issue price, issue price is the sum total of whatever has gone into the price of liquor at the time it is issued and it is a single predetermined definite

Determinable life estates

contingency happens-when the widow marries, or when the grantee obtains the benefice-the respective estates are absolutely determined and gone. Yet, while they subsist, they are reckoned estates for life; because they may by possibility last for life,

Goods

attributes, the same would be goods. Unlike the American Courts, the Supreme Court of India has also not gone into the question of severability. What is essential for an article to become goods is its marketability, Tata

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