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Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923

Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923 (English) (13 & 14 Geo. 5, cc. 9 and 25). By a series of statutes commencing with the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1875, statutory compensation has been provided for an outgoing agricultural tenant...

Infant

Infant [fr. infans, Lat., one who cannot speak], a person under twenty-one years of age, whose acts are in many cases either void or voidable. See AGE. At Common Law, the contracts of infants are divided...

Judgment-debtor

Judgment-debtor, means any person against whom a decree has been passed or an order capable of execution has been made. [Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, s. 2 (10)] One against whom a judgment ordering him to...

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Possession is nine points of the law

Possession is nine points of the law. This adage is not to be taken to be true to the full extent, so as to mean that the person in possession can only be ousted by one...

Quem redditum reddit

Quem redditum reddit, means 'which return he made'. A writ for a grantee of a rent (not a rent service) to force the tenant to consent to the transfer, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1259....

Quare ejecit infa terminum

Quare ejecit infa terminum (wherefore he ejected within the term), a writ which lay by the ancient law where the wrongdoer or ejector was not himself in possession of the lands, but another who claimed under...

Public meeting

Public meeting, a meeting which any person may attend. Any number of persons may meet in any place for any lawful purpose with the consent of the owner of that place; but without such consent, and...

Office of profit

Office of profit, a person who was a Pramukh at the time of filing of nomination papers and who was drawing a honorarium was not holding an office of profit, Umrao Singh v. Yeshwant Singh, AIR...

Person aggrieved

Person aggrieved, does not include a mere busy-body, but refers to one who has a genuine grievance on account of some order prejudicially affecting his interests, K.C. Pazhanimala v. State of Kerala, AIR 1969 Ker 154:...

Pay and pay scale

Pay and pay scale, are conceptually different connotations. Pay is essentially a consideration for the services rendered by an employee and is the remuneration which is payable to him. Remuneration is the recurring payment for services...

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