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Maintenance

maintenance of infants and persons until they attain a vested interest if they are entitled to the intermediate income or otherwise as provided under settlements created after 1925, see Trustee Act, 1925, s. 31, reproducing and extending

Pawn or Pledge

after the debt or other duty has been discharged. He must render a due account of all the income, profits, and advantages derived by him from the pledge, in all cases where such an account is within

Civil Law

nature and nations. The 'Roman Law'and the 'Civil Law' are convertible phrases, meaning the same system of jurisprudence; it is now frequently denominated 'the Roman Civil Law.' The collections of Roman Civil Law, before its reformation in

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Joint-tenancy

by the accession of the part of him or them that die to the survivors or survivor, till it passes to a single hand, and the joint-tenancy ceases. Anciently, joint-tenancy was favoured because it did not induce

Donatio mortis causa

Re Harrison, 78 Sol Jo 135]. This kind of gift resembles a legacy, inasmuch as it is ambulatory, incomplete, and revocable during the donor's life; is liable to his debts upon a deficiency of assets; may be

Insurance

Insurance, see, Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), s. 80C, Expl. 1. Insurance, the act of providing against a possible loss,

Residence

of the word under statutes, see the particular statute, e.g., franchise, burial company law, jurisdiction of courts, divorce, income tax, juries, poor law, local government, etc. see DOMICIL. Residence does not mean a temporary residence for the

Plant

mechanical operations or process employed in mechanical or industrial business, Scientific Engineering House Pvt. Ltd. v. Commissioner of Income Tax, (1986) 1 SCC 11. Plant, would include whatever apparatus is used by a businessman for carrying on

Fee-simple

Fee-simple, a freehold estate of inheritance, absolute and unqualified. It stands at the head of estates as the highest in dignity and the most ample in extent; since

Cross-examination

from interest or othrwise, the judge may allow the examination in chief to assume the form of cross-examination. It is provided by (English) R. S. C., 1883, Ord. XXXVI., r. 38, that the judge may disallow vexa-tions

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