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holding period

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Septennate

A period of seven years as the septennate during which the President of the French Republic holds office

Substantive capacity

person is said to hold a post in a substantive capacity when he holds it for an indefinite period especially of long duration in contradistinction to a person who holds it for a definite or temporary period … Substantive capacity, means capacity other than an officiating or temporary capacity and would imply that the holder thereof had a lien on his post, Prem Nath Sharma v. Vice-Chancellor, Lucknow, University, AIR 1959 All 618.

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Tenure

Khalsa College, Amritsar, AIR 1971 P&H 479: 1971 Cur LJ 334. Means a right, term, or mode of holding lands or tenements in subordination to a superior; in fendal times, real property was held predominantly as part … Law of Property Act, 1925. See COPYHOLD; ESCHEAT. Terce, thirds; Scots term. See WIDOW'S TERCE. Tenure means the period for which an incumbent of office holds it, Union of India v. Tulsiram Patel, AIR 1985 SC 1416:

Within such period

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Person resident in India

intention to stay in India for an uncertain period, Needle Industries (India) Ltd. v. Needle Industries Newey (India) Holdings Ltd., AIR 1981 SC 1298: (1981) 3 SCC 333: (1981) 3 SCR 698.

Year of allotment

the period from that date to the date of his confirmation in the Senior Grade he continues to hold without any break or reversion, a Senior post otherwise than as a purely temporary or local arrangement, Anil

detention

detention 1 : the act or fact of detaining or holding back ;esp : a holding in custody 2 : the state of being detained ;esp : a period

Wajib-ul-arz

Wajib-ul-arz, the entry regarding agreement in a Wajib-ul-arz holds good during the period of the settlement in which it is made and becomes inoperative when the settlement

Vacation

period between the term of court and beginning of next; the space of time during which a court holds no sessions, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1546.

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