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Vendor
Vendor, one who sells anything. The word 'vendor' though not defined in the Act, would obviously mean the person who had sold the article of food which is alleged to be adulterated. Vendor here does not...
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...
Such prisoner shall be confined in a cell apart prisoners
Such prisoner shall be confined in a cell apart prisoners, the expression 'such prisoner shall be confined in a cell apart prisoners' has a restricted meaning. It must be given a rational meaning to effectuate the...
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Seizure
Seizure, 'seizure' means something different because here seizure means that the Commissioner would take into possession the account books and take them outside the possession of the assessee, Mangat Rai v. State of Madhya Pradesh (1969)...
Pretensed right
Pretensed right: where one is in possession of land, and another, who is out of possession claims and sues for it; here the pretensed right is said to be in him who so claims and sues,...
Scylla and Charybdis
Scylla and Charybdis, Six headed monster living on opposite sides of the straits of messine; it was difficult to steer clear of one without encountering the other. 'Avoiding Scylla and Charybdis, we proceed to decipher the...
Scintilla juris et tituli
Scintilla juris et tituli [Lat.] (a spark of law and title). A possibility of seisin, which was supposed to exist in the grantee to uses, when all actual seisin was taken from him by the operation...
Restitutio in integrum
Restitutio in integrum, the rescinding of a contract or transaction, so as to place the parties to it in the same position, with respect to one another, which they occupied before the contract was made, or...
Impair materially
Impair materially, in s. 13(2)(iii) of the East Punjab Rent Restriction Act, 1949, the meaning of the expression 'to impair materially' in common parlance would mean to diminish in quality, strength or value substantially. In other...
Ratio decidendi
Ratio decidendi, is the rule deducible from the application of law of the facts and circumstances of a case which constitutes its ratio decidendi and not some conclusion based upon facts which may appear to be...
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