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Pension
undeserved want. Relevant rules merely make effective the constitutional mandate. Pension is a right not a bounty or gratuitous payment, Poonamal v. Union of India, AIR 1985 SC 1196: (1985) 3 SCC 345: (1985) 3 SCR 1042;
Non-feasance
Boyntin v. Ancholme Drainage and Nvigation Commissioners, (1921) 2 KB 213. Non-feasance not amounting to gross negligence in gratuitous bailments or undertakings is not actionable, but mis-feasance in such cases imposes a liability; and see NEGLIGENCE. Non-feasance
Gratuity
kind of retirement benefit like the provident fund or pension. At one time it was treated as payment gratuitously made by the employer to his employee at his pleasure but as a result of a long series
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Feu, or few
Feu, or few, a free and gratuitous right to lands, made to one for service to be performed by him, according to the proper nature
Consideration
a simple contract and may be insufficient for the validity of other transactions maybe found:' (a) In so-called gratuitous or voluntary promises which are void for want of a reciprocal return however obligatory they may be in
Days of grace
of indulgence granted to an acceptor for the payment of his bill of exchange. It was originally a gratuitous favour (hence the name), but custom has rendered it a legal right. The number of these days varies
Any person
longer possible. The scope of this rationale does not, however, extend to cover the class of cases where gratuitous passengers for whom no insurance policy was envisaged, and for whom no insurance premium was paid, employed the
Feu
A free and gratuitous right to lands made to one for service to be performed by him a tenure where the vassal
onerous
consideration [an donation] used chiefly in the civil law of Louisiana see also onerous contract at contract compare gratuitous
nudum pactum
: an agreement or promise that is made without consideration and hence unenforceable [a mere nudum pactum] compare gratuitous promise at promise
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