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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,...

Candidate

Candidate [fr. Candidatus, Lat., clothed in white], a competitor, one who solicits or proposes himself for a place or office. The name is derived from the toga candida in which competitors at Rome were habited. In...

Manufacturer

Manufacturer, in relation to any dangerous machine or any part thereof, means a person who, or a firm or a Hindu undivided family which-- (i) makes or manufactures such dangerous machine or part thereof, (ii) makes...

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Vagrants

Vagrants, sturdy beggars; vagabonds. The Act which is now in force, embodying, mitigating, and extending numerous former provisions, is the (English) Vagrancy Act, 1824 (5 Geo. 4, c. 83). It has been extended by the Vagrancy...

Uses

Uses (History). A use is the intention or purpose, express or implied, upon which property is to be held. The Common Law treated the actual possessor for all purposes as the owner of the property. It...

Trust

Trust, is a comprehensive expression, as covering not only the relationship of trustee and beneficiary but also that a bailor and bailee master and servant pledger and pledgee, guardian and ward and all other relations which...

Reasonable opportunity

Reasonable opportunity, the broad test of 'reason-able opportunity' is, whether in the given case, the show cause notice issued to the delinquent servant contained or was accompanied by so much information as was necessary to enable...

Money lender

Money lender, a few disconnected and isolated transactions would not make a person engaged regularly in Money lending business, Ka Icildawallang v. U. Lokendra Sojour, AIR 1987 SC 2047. [Assam Money-lenders Act, (4 of 1934), s....

Signature

Signature, a sign or mark impressed upon anything; a stamp, a mark; the name of a person written by himself either in full or by initials as regards his Christian name or names, and in full...

False pretence, obtaining property

False pretence, obtaining property, this offence, though allied to larceny, is distinguishable from it, as being perpetrated through the medium of a mere fraud; it is a misdemeanour at Common Law. By the Larceny Act, 1916,...

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