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Jus vitae necisgue

Jus vitae necisgue, means right of life and death'. The power help by the head of the house hold over persons under his paternal power and over his slaves. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 871....


Office of profit

Office of profit, a person who was a Pramukh at the time of filing of nomination papers and who was drawing a honorarium was not holding an office of profit, Umrao Singh v. Yeshwant Singh, AIR 1970 Raj 134 (141). [Constitution of India, Art. 102(1)(a)]It need not be in the service of Government. Generally it is understood that an office means a position to which certain duties are attached. An office of profit involves two elements namely that there should be such an office and that it should carry some remunerations. It is not the same as holding a post under the Government and therefore for holding an office of profit under the Government, a person need not be in the service of the Government, Satrucharla Chandrasekhar Raju v. Vyricherla Pradeep Kumar Devi, AIR 1992 SC 1959: (1992) 4 SCC 404.The word 'office' does not, therefore, necessarily imply that it must have an existence apart from the person, who may hold it. Cases are known, in which, in order to make use of the Special know...


Resumption

Resumption. 1. The taking again by the Crown of such lands or tenements, etc., as on false suggestion had been granted by letters-patent, Bro. Ab. 291.2. By agricultural landlord, before legal tenancy ended, of the tenant's land (generally in part only) for building, etc., purposes, making an abatement of rent and giving compensation for damage to crops. Notice to quit part only being invalid at common law, Doe v. Archer, (1811) 14 East, 245 this resumption has frequently to be specially stipulated for; but in many cases of yearly tenancy recourse may be had to s. 27 of the (English) Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923, by which:-Where a notice to quit is given by the landlord of a holding to a tenant from year to year with a view to the use of land for any of the following purposes:-(i) The erection of farm labourers' cottages or other houses with or without gardens;(ii) The provision of gardens for farm labourers' cottages, or other houses;(iii) The provision of allotments;(iv) The provi...


Housing of the working classes

Housing of the working classes. The Housing Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5, and 1 Edw. 8, c. 51), replaces with amendments the Housing Acts, 1925, 1930 and 1935, and consolidates the general law on the subject with some exceptions, chiefly relating to agricultural populations and needs, which are also provided for in unrepeated portions of the Acts of 1930 and 1935. Very wide powers are conferred on local authorities over the ownership of land and housing properties, and populations within their districts, enabling those authorities to make bye-laws for houses occupied or adaptable for the working classes; to effect the clearance, demolition, rebuilding, redevelopment or improvement of houses either singly or in whole areas and other-wise regulating sites or houses; to prevent over-crowding, and generally making it incumbent on these authorities to review and provide for the housing conditions of the working classes, and in addition giving powers of compulsory expropria-tion of private owners fr...


Baron

Baron [fr. beorn, Sax., noble], the fifth and lowest degree of nobility, next to a viscount, and above that of a knight or baronet. In the Salic Law it signifies free-born. The present barons are-(1) By prescription; for that they and their ancestors have immemorially sat in the Upper House.(2) Barons by patent, having obtained a patent of this dignity to them and their heirs, male or otherwise. (3) Barons by tenure, holding the title as annexed to land; it is said that it is the possession of their ancient landed territories which imparts the barony to the bishops, there by giving them a place in the Upper House, although they hold by succession, not by inheritance; but it is rather thought that they sit in the Upper House by immemorial usage....


Cottage holding

Cottage holding, means a holding comprising a dwelling house, together with not less than a quarter of an acre and not more than one acre of agricultural land which can be cultivated by the occupier of the dwelling house and his family, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, para 5, p. 6....


Speaker of the House of Commons

Speaker of the House of Commons. This great officer is the organ or spokesman of the Commons; in modern times he is more occupied in presiding over the deliberations of the House than in delivering speeches on their behalf. The principal duties of the Speaker are the following:-To preside, as Chairman of the House, at its debates when not in committee; to give a casting vote, when the votes are equal, which according to practice he gives in favour of a motion or bill (he has no original vote); to read to the sovereign petitions or addresses from the Commons, and to deliver in the royal presence, whether at the palace or in the House of Lords, such speeches as are usually made on behalf of the Commons; to reprimand persons who have incurred the displeasure of the House; to issue warrants of committal or release for breaches of privilege; and to communicate in writing with any parties, when so instructed by the House. In the case of Bills introduced under the provisions of the (English) ...


Speaker of the House of Lords

Speaker of the House of Lords. The Lord Chancellor, by virtue of his office, becomes, on the delivery of the seal to him by the sovereign, Speaker of the House of Lords. He is usually, but not necessarily, a peer, and unlike the Speaker of the House of Commons is under no obligation to preserve an impartial attitude, since he is a member of the Government for the time being. There has always been a Deputy Speaker, and formerly there were two or more, but since the year 1815 there has been only one. The chairman in committees generally fills the office. In the absence of the Lord Chancellor and of the Deputy Speaker, it is competent to the House to appoint any noble lord to take the woolsack. The Speaker is the organ or mouthpiece of the House, and it therefore is his duty to represent their lordship in their collective capacity, when holding intercourse with other public bodies or with individuals. He has not a casting vote upon divisions, for should the numbers prove equal, the non-co...


Judge

Judge [fr. juge, Fr.; judex, Lat.], one invested with authority to determine any cause or question in a Court of judicature. The word 'judge' denotes not only every person who is officially designated as a judge but also every person who is empowered by law to give, in any legal proceeding, civil or criminal, definitive judgment, or a judgment which, if not appealed against, would be definitive, or a judgment which, is confirmed by some other authority, would be definitive or who is one of a body of persons which body of persons is em-powered by law to give such a judgement (Indian Penal Code, 1860, s. 19)To secure the dignity and political independence of the judges of the Supreme Court, it is enacted by s. 5 of the (English) Jud. Act, 1875 (replaced by Jud. Act, 1925, s. 12), repeating in effect a provision of the Act of Settlement (12 & 13 Wm. 3, c. 2), that the judges of the Supreme Court (with the exception of the Lord Chancellor, who goes out with the Ministry) shall hold their o...


Held

Held, the word 'held' means possession of legal and does not require actual connected occupation, Jilubhai Nanbhai Khadhar v. State of Gujarat, 1995 Supp (1) SCC 596; AIR 1995 SC 142.The word 'held' in s. 9 of the U.P. Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950 means 'lawfully held'. Judicial propriety requires that if a bench of a High Court is unable to agree with the decision already rendered by another co-ordinate bench of the same High Court, the question should be referred to a larger bench, Budhan Singh v. Nabi Bux, AIR 1970 SC 1880 (1884): (1969) 2 SCC 481: (1970) 2 SCR 10.The expression 'held' occurring in s. 9 of the U.P. Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950 can be construed to mean 'lawfully held'. Kailash Rai v. Jai Jai Ram, AIR 1973 SC 893 (897): (1973) 1 SCC 527: (1973) 3 SCR 411 [U.P. Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act (1 of 1951), s. 9]In the Unabridged Edition of The Random House Dictionary of the English Language, the word 'hold' has been inter ali...



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