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Home Dictionary Name: have interest Page: 3Disinterested
Not influenced by regard to personal interest or advantage free from selfish motive having no relation of interest or feeling not biased or prejudiced as a disinterested decision or judge...
access
access often attrib 1 : permission, liberty, or ability to enter, approach, communicate with, or pass to and from a place, thing, or person [public to federal land] [ to the courts] 2 : opportunity for sexual intercourse 3 : a landowner's legal right to pass from his or her land to a highway and to return without being obstructed 4 : freedom or ability to obtain, make use of, or participate in something [the right to equal treatment holds with respect to a limited set of interests — like voting — and demands that every person have the same to these interests "L. H. Tribe"] 5 a : a way by which a thing or place may be approached or reached b : passage to and from a place [provide a means of to the land] 6 : opportunity to view or copy a copyrighted work ...
Courts (Emergency Powers) Acts
Courts (Emergency Powers) Acts (English) empowered the Courts (inter alia) to defer execution,the levying of distress, realization of securities, etc., during the war. The policy of protecting certain classes of tenants and mortgagors was continued and extended by the Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest (War Restrictions) Act, 1915, since replaced by various Acts which have been superseded by the Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restrictions) Acts, 1920 to 1935. See too INCREASE OF RENT ETC. ACTS, 1920-1935....
Appropriation, powers of
Appropriation, powers of. The Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 41,has conferred on personal representatives a general power to appropriate any part of the real or personal estate (including things in action) of the deceased in its actual condition or state of investment at the time of appropriation in or towards satisfaction of any legacy or interest or share in his property as to the personal representative may seem just or reasonable having regard to the rights of the persons interested in that property subject to the consent of the person entitled to that part, or to the income (if the share is settled), or of his parent, guardian, committee or receiver if he is under incapacity owing to infancy or otherwise. No other consents are required and provision is made for dispensing with any consent. Any property when duly appropriated is to be treated as an authorized investment. An appropriation with consent under this Act is subjected to an ad valorem duty as a conveyance. Aliter...
Concern
Concern, The word 'concern' is not a term of art, having a precise, fixed meaning. It has several nuances, and is used to convey diverse shades of meaning over a wide spectrum. It may mean 'to have a relation to, or bearing on, be of interest or, importance' or 'to have an anxiety, worry', R. Dalmia v. Commissioner of Income Tax, (1977) 2 SCC 467: AIR 1977 SC 988 (991): (1977) 2 SCR 654. [Income-tax Act (11 of 1922), s. 2(6c)(iii)]...
aggrieved
aggrieved : having a grievance: as a : suffering from an infringement or denial of rights b : having interests adversely affected [ creditors] ...
Tail
Tail [fr. tailler, Fr., to prune]. An estate-tail was formerly a freehold of inheritance and is now an equitable interest which may be created after 1925 in respect of personalty as well as realty by way of trust and which (if not barred or disposed of by will after 1925) will devolve inequity on the person who would have taken realty as heir of the body or as tenant by the curtesy if the Law of Property Act, 1925, had not been passed [s. 130 (4) (ibid.)]The limitation of an estate so that it can be inherited only by the fee owner's issue or class of issue, Black's Law dictionary 7th Edn., p. 1466.An estate-tail in land now constitutes a settlement. [(English) Settled Land Act, 1925, s. 1]With this and other statutory modifications under the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, the rules relating to this form of estate are still applicable (a) in the investigation of all titles to land in existence on the 31st December, 1925; (b) in the construction of equitable interests into which th...
Power
Power, in respect of court the word 'power' means an authority expressly or impliedly conferred on the court by law to do that which without that sanction it could not have done, consent cannot give jurisdiction, K.E. v. Vithu, (1899) 1 Bom LR 157.Power, is an authority reserved by, or limited to, a person to dispone, either wholly or partially, of movable or immovable property, either for his own benefit or for that of others. The word is used as a technical term and is distinct from the dominion which a man has over his own estate by virtue of ownership, Stroud's Judicial Dictionary.Power, is not synonymous with jurisdiction, K.E. v. Vithu, (1899) 1 Bom LR 157.Power, may be general or implied. The general powers are such as the donee can exercise in favour of such person or persons as he pleases, including himself, Mahadeo Ramchandra v. Damodar Vishwanath, AIR 1957 Bom 218.Means any form of energy which is not generated by human or animal agency. [The Gujarat Lifts and Escalators Act...
Property
Property, an actionable claim against the tenants is undoubtedly a species of property which is assignable, State of Bihar v. Kameshwar Singh, AIR 1952 SC 252.Comprises every form of tangible property, even intangible, including debts and chooses in action such as unpaid accumulation of wages, pension, cash grants, and constitutionally protected privy purse, See M.M. Pathak v. Union of India, AIR 1978 SC 802.Decree is to be treated as property, Associated Hotels of India v. Jodha Mal Kuthiala, AIR 1950 Punj 201.Every movable property is included in the ordinary connotation of the word 'property', Chunni Lal v. State, AIR 1968 Raj 70.In commercial law this may carry its ordinary meaning of the subject-matter of ownership. But elsewhere, as in the sale of goods it may be used as a synonym for ownership and lesser rights in goods, Dictionary of Commercial Law by A.H. Hudson, (1983, Edn.).In Entry 42, List III (Constitution of India) includes the power to legislate for acquisition of an un...
Registration of title of land
Registration of title of land. The (English) Land Registration Act, 1925 (15 Geo. 5, c. 21), repeals and re-enacts the (English) Land Transfer Acts, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 87) and 1897 (60 & 61 Vict. c. 65), with amendments in keeping with innovations which were introduced by the property laws of 1925. Its object is to simplify the indicia of land ownership and transfer by mere inscription and transcription in a register. The advantages which are claimed for the system are (a) purchasers for value of an absolute or good leasehold title are absolved from any inquiry into the title other than it is shown to be on the register; (b) certain equitable claims which would be binding on the land under the general law and cannot be removed or over-reached without onerous formalities do not affect such purchasers; (c) the method of conveyance or charge is simple; (d) subject to the statutory provisions, registration guarantees the title to purchasers for value and mortgagees. It should be observ...
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