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Control

Control, the word 'control' suggests check, restraint or influence. Control is intended to regulate and hold in check a restrain from action, State of Mysore v. Allum Karibasuppa, AIR 1974 SC 1863 (1866). [Karnataka

Consideration

2 SCC 585: AIR 1981 SC 1274 (1280): (1981) 3 SCR 239. [U.P. Impoition of Celling and Land Holdings Act (1 of 1961), s. 5(6)] When at the desire at the promisor, the promise or any other

Candidate

to have been a candidate as from the time when, with the election in prospect, he began to hold himself out as a prospective candidate, Jyoti Basu v. Debi Ghosal (1982) 1 SCC 691: AIR 1982 SC

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Burgage-tenure

an ancient burrough is, of which the King is lord, and they, that have tenements within the burrough, hold of the King their tenements; that every tenant for his tenement ought to pay to the King a

Corporation

succession, notwithstanding changes in its membership. In addition, it possesses the capacity as such legal entity of taking, holding and conveying property, entering into contracts, suing and being sued, and exercising such other powers and privileges as

Circuits

Carmarthen and town of Haverfordwest. The places, and also as far as it may be, the days for holding assizes, and various other regulations as to circuits, are from time to time altered by Orders in Council.

Communi custodia

Communi custodia, an obsolete writ which anciently lay for the lord, whose tenant, holding by knight's service, died, and left his eldest son under age, against a stranger that entered the land,

Company

mechanical device for carrying on trade and industry, a mere legal framework providing a convenient institutional container for holding and using the powers of company management. The company law was at that time conceived merely as a

Compensation

be compensated with what is owing to him by the creditor. See INTOXICATING LIQUORS; WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION; VALUATION; AGRICUL-TURAL HOLDING; and LANDLORD AND TENANT. Means compensation as provided for by this Act. [Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923 (8 of

Conacre

Conacre (Corn-acre), a sub-letting by an Irish tenant, for a season, of a part of his holding ready ploughed and prepared for a crop, Oxf. Dict.

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