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which merely declares what the Common Law is, 1 Bl. Com. 54 and 86. (II) As opposed to imperative. When a statute directs that an act should be done in a specific manner, or authorizes it upon

Power

given by one to another to act for him, or to do certain specified acts. Powers are never imperative; they leave the act to be done at the Will or the party to whom they are given.

rule is that such words will create a precatory trust if they are capable of being construed as imperative, but the cases are num-erous and conflicting. In former times the Court was very apt to construe words

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Trust

an executory instrument). A precatory trust is properly a trust declared by a person by inference and not imperatively, and construed by the Court in favour of the intention. Thus when property is given absolutely to any

Emperor

Emperor [fr. empereur, Fr.; imperator, Lat.], a sovereign prince who bears rule over large kingdoms and territories; a monarch of title and dignity

Rashness and criminal negligence

particular, which, having regard to all the circumstances out of which the charge has arisen, it was the imperative duty of the accused person to have adopted, S.N. Hussain v. State of Andhra Pradesh, AIR 1972 SC

Rash act

and precaution guarding against injury to the public generally or to any individual in particular. It is the imperative duty of the driver of a vehicle to adopt such reasonable and proper care and precaution, Mohd. Aynuddin

Must or shall

Must or shall, If the legislative intent is expressed clearly and strongly in imperative words, such as the use of 'must' instead of 'shall', that will itself be sufficient to hold the

Money land

equity would not consider money as land, unless the covenant or direction to lay it out inland be imperative. For the order of administration since 1925, see the (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925, putting real and

League of Nations (Societe des Nations)

personal contact, the technical business of government where, more and more, the interdependence of countries makes common action imperative; discussion in public. More than 400 treaties have been concluded, varying from security pacts like Locarno, to the

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