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Acquisition by transfer
Acquisition by transfer, 'Transfer of property' means an act by which a living person conveys property, in present or in future, to one or more other living persons, or to himself, or to himself and one...
Act of Bankruptcy
Act of Bankruptcy, an act, the commission of which by a debtor renders him liable to be adjudged a bankrupt if the petition is presented within three months thereafter. Under s. 1 of the (English) Bankruptcy...
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...
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Alteration
Alteration. An alteration vitiates a deed or other instrument, if made in a material part after execution. In the case of deeds, an unexplained alteration is presumed to have been made at the time of execution;...
Apothecaries
Apothecaries [fr. apothicaire, Fr., fr. apoqnkn, Gk.], persons who combine the giving of medical advice with the supply of medicines prepared by themselves. Their practice in England and Wales is mainly regulated by the (English) Apothecaries...
Bargain
An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to some property for a consideration and the other party binds himself to receive...
Begging
Begging, means: (i) soliciting or receiving alms in a public place or entering into any private premises for the purpose of soliciting or receiving alms, whether under any pretence; (ii) exposing or exhibiting with the object...
Duress
Duress [fr. duresse, Fr.; durities, Lat., constraint], imprisonment, compulsion. Duress is either by imprisonment or by threats. In order to constitute duress by imprisonment, either the imprisonment or the duress consequent upon it must be tortious...
Consumer
Consumer, 'consumer' would include 'any person who consumes electrical energy supplied by a person who generates electrical energy for his own consumption', Jiyajee Rao Cotton Mills Ltd. v. State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1963 SC 414:...
Consummation
Consummation, of tenancy by the curtesy is when a husband, upon his wife's death, becomes entitled to hold her lands in fee simple or fee tail, of which she was seised during the marriage, for his...
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