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heritable obligation

heritable obligation see obligation ...

Heritable Bond

Heritable Bond, a bond for money, joined with a conveyance of land or heritage, to be held by a creditor as security for his debt, Scots term....

Heritable genetic material, means genes or other genetic material, in any form, whether in cellular or sub-cellular entities, which are capable of being replicated or transferred by any means [See (English) Environment Protection Act, 1990, Pt. VI (ss. 106-127) (as amended)]...

Heritable Jurisdiction

Heritable Jurisdiction, grants of criminal jurisdic-tion, anciently bestowed on great families in Scotland, with a view to the more easy administra-tion of justice. Abolished by 20 Geo. 2, c. 43....

Heritable Rights

Heritable Rights, all rights to land, or whatever is connected with land, as mills, fishing, tithes, etc., Scots term....

Heritable Securities in Scotland

Heritable Securities in Scotland. See 23 & 24 Vict. cc. 15, 80....

Naslan bad naslan

Naslan bad naslan, the expression means heritable and heritable only by the lineal male descendants - It also means heritable and alienable estate, Bajrang Bahadur Singh v. B. Kher, AIR 1953 SC 7....

Shebaitship

Shebaitship, property dedicated to an idol vests in it in an ideal sense only; ex necessitas, the possession and management has to be entrusted to some human agent. Such an agent of the idol is known as shebait in Northern India. The legal character of a shebait cannot be defined with precision and exactitude. Broadly described, he is the human ministrant and custodian of the idol, its earthly spokesman, its authorised representative entitled to deal with all its temporal affairs and to manage its property. As regards the administration of the debutter, his position is analogous to that of a trustee; yet, he is not precisely in the position of a trustee in the English sense, because under Hindu Law, property absolutely dedicated to an idol, vests in the idol, and not in the shebait. Although the debutter never vests in the shebait, yet, peculiarly enough, almost in every case, the shebait has a right to a part of the usufruct, the mode of enjoyment; and the amount of the usufruct depen...

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