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Home Dictionary Name: grantLost grant
Lost grant, is a mere presumption from long possession and exercise of user by easement with acquiescence of the owner, that there must have been originally a grant to the claimant, which had been 'lost', Braja Kishore Jagdev v. Lingraj Samantaray, (2000) 6 SCC 540.Lost grant, is a presumption which arises in cases of immemorial user. It has its origin from the long possession and exercise of right by user of an easement with the acquiescence of the owner that there must have been originally a grant to the claimant which had been lost, Konda Lakshmana Bapuji v. Govt. of Andhra Pradesh, (2002) 3 SCC 258.Lost grant, the doctrine has no application to the case of inhabitants of particular localities seeking to establish rights of user to some piece of land or water. Since the right originated in grant, its owners, whether original or by devolution, had to be such persons as were capable of being the recipients of a grant, and a right exercisable by the inhabitants of a village from time t...
Exceptional grant
Exceptional grant, the exceptional grants are to be regulated by the same procedure as is applicable in the case of demands for grants subject to such adaptations as the speaker, Lok Sabha, may deem to be necessary or expedient, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha, 10th Edn., 2002, r. 215.In India, the Lok Sabha has the power to make an exceptional grant which does not form part the current service of any financial year, Constitution of India, Art. 166.In U.K. such grants are presented either as estimates or dealt with on a financial resolution. A grant to provide for rewards to individuals for distingui-shed public service, a special grant for presentation of a mail to a new commonwealth legislature etc. are examples of exceptional grant, the Office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth, Wilding and Philip Laundary, p. 255.Is the type of sanction of money by Parliament of cover expenses of an unusual character, Dictionary of Constitutional and Parliamen...
Cessate grants
Cessate grants, where a testator has directed that in a certain event some other person is to be substituted for his original executor, that other person becomes entitled upon the happening of the event to a grant in his own favour. Such a grant is known as a cessate or second grant, and differs from a grant de bonis non-administrators by being a re-grant of all the estate remaining, and by being a grant of probated and not of administration with the Will annexed, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 17, para 863, p. 455....
Token grant
Token grant, in India, demand for grant of a token sum is brought before the House when funds to meet expenditure on 'new notice' can be made available by re-appropriation; if House assents to the demand, funds are made available, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha, 10th Edn., 2002, r. 217.In UK the token sum is inserted under the appropri-ate subhead in the main estimate itself; it is done because, being a new service, sufficient detail is not available and also the amount of the grant cannot be precisely estimated, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 749.Token grant, is a grant of a token sum made by Parliament to meet the proposed expenditure on a new service, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha, 10th Edn., 2002, r. 217...
Double grants
Double grants, where by reason of their number or otherwise the executors appointed by the will do not all prove, power may be reserved to the non-proving executors to prove at a later date. The second grant will then be known as double probate. IT is made in general terms, but the value of the estate is sworn as the value of the assets remaining unadministered at the date of the second grant and not as the original value in the first grant, Halsbury's Laws of England 17, para 362, p. 455....
grant
grant 1 : to permit as a right or privilege [ a new trial] [the Supreme Court ed certiorari] 2 : to bestow or transfer formally ;specif : to transfer the possession or title of by a deed : convey n 1 : the act of granting 2 : something granted ;esp : a gift (as of land or money) for a particular purpose 3 a : a transfer of property by deed or writing b : the instrument by which such a transfer is made ;also : the property so transferred ...
block grant
block grant : an unrestricted federal grant ...
Direct grant school
Direct grant school, is a school which receives a direct grant from the secretary of state and makes available, either directly or through local education authorities, at least a quarter of its places for which no fees are payable by parents. Very few remain, Halsbury's Laws of England 15, para 96, p. 95....
Excess grant
Excess grant, is the authorisation given by Parliament to the money spent by department in excess of the amount granted for a service in particular year, the Office of Speaker in the Parlia-ments of Commonwealth, Wilding and Philip Laundry, p. 255, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 751, Parliamentary Dictionary, L.A. Abraham and S.C. Hawtrey, 1956 and H.M. Barclay, 3rd Edn., 1970, p. 97, Constitution of India, Art. 115(b)....
Lying in Grant, or in Livery
Lying in Grant, or in Livery. See GRANT....
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