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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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