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Improper feuds

Improper feuds, derivative feuds; as, for instance, those that were originally bartered and sold to the feudatory for a price, or were held upon base or less honourable services, or upon a rent in lieu of military service, or were themselves alienable, without mutual licence, or descended indifferently to males or females...


Feod, or feud

Feod, or feud, the right which the vassal had in land, or some immovable property of his lord, to use the same and take the profits thereof, rendering unto the lord such duties and services as belonged to the particular tenure; the actual property in the soil always remaining in the lord, Spelm., Feuds and Tenures....


Feud-bote

Feud-bote, a recompense for engaging in a feud or quarrel, Cowel's Law Dict....


Feuds, book of

Feuds, book of, published during the reign of Henry III., about the year 1152. 'While most of the nations of Europe referred to the Book of Feuds as the grand code of law by which to correct and amend the imperfections in their own tenures, there is not in our law-books any allusion that intimates the existence of such a body of constitutions.'-2 Reeves, 55....


Military feuds

Military feuds, the genuine or original feuds which were in the hands of military men, who performed military duty for their tenures. See TENURE....


Proper feuds

Proper feuds, the original and genuine feuds held by pure military service....


Improper legal advice and wrong legal advice

Improper legal advice and wrong legal advice, Giving of improper legal advice is different from giving of wrong legal advice. While the former may amount to professional misconduct, the latter may not be so. It is against professional etiquette for a lawyer to give improper legal advice with an ulterior object. It is unworthy that an advocate should accept employment with such motive, or so long as his client has such understanding of his purpose. It is professionally improper for a member of the bar to prepare false documents or to draw pleadings knowingly that the allegations made are untrue of his knowledge, Pandurang Dattatraya Khandekar v. Bar Council of Maharashtra, AIR 1984 SC 110: (1984) 1 SCR 414: (1984) 2 SCC 556....


Improper reception, refusal or rejection

Improper reception, refusal or rejection, When it is said that there is improper refusal of any vote it implies again two things, viz., a vote which ought to have been accepted as valid vote has been improperly refused as an invalid vote. The expression 'refuse to accept' and the expression 'reception' implies 'refusal' implies 'refuse to reject', S. Raghbir Singh Gill v. S. Gurcharan Singh Tohra, AIR 1980 SC 1362: (1980) Supp SCC 53: (1980) 3 SCR 1302....


Feud

Feud, An inheritable estate is land conveyed from a feudal superior to a grantee or tenant, held on conditions of rendering services to superior, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 636....


Honorary feuds

Honorary feuds, titles of nobility, descendible to the eldest son, in exclusion of all the rest....


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