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In an appropriate case

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Appropriate government

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Appropriation of payments

account. The general rule as to appropriation of payments is this: The debtor may in the first instance appropriate the payment, solvitur in modum solventis; if he omit to do so, the creditor may make the appropriation, … equitable principles and prima facie to the earlier debt, Mills v. Fowkes, (1839) 5 Bing NC 461; Clayton's Case, (1816) 1 Mer 605; The Mecca, 1897, AC 286. A creditor can appropriate a general payment to a

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Clayton's case

case. 1 Mer. 572. The rule in this case is that payments are presumed, prima facie, to be appropriated to debts in the order in which they are incurred, but see Hallett'' Estate, 13 C.D. 696, as

Appropriation Accounts

Appropriation Accounts, 'appropriation accounts' means accounts which relate the expenditure brought to account during a financial year, to the … Consolidated Fund of India or of State, or of a Union Territory having a Legislative Assembly, as the case may be. [Comptroller and Auditor-General's (Duties, Power and Conditions of Service Act, (56 of 1971), s. 2(b)]

Precedent

Supp SCR 67. Precedents keep the law predictable and so more or less ascertainable. Lord Chancellor Hailsham very appropriately summed up the English practice when he said in Cassell & Co. Ltd. v. Broome. Their lordships regard … are not an immutable dogma. Courts may evolve principles which are applicable to the facts involved in each case, Rumana Begum v. Government of Andhra Pradesh, 1992 Cr LJ 3512. Means every judgment must be based upon

Whenever the appropriate Government so directs

Matched in: Term Whenever the appropriate Government so directs

Cause of action

of action arises outside the specified areas, it will be open to the litigant to frame the case appropriately to attract the jurisdiction either at Lucknow or at Allahabad, Nasiruddin v. State Transport Appellate Tribunal, (1976) 1

Passengers

Passengers, persons conveyed from one place to another. Passenger ships are those peculiarly appropriated to the conveyance of passengers, as distinguished from cargo ships. In some respects, passengers by ship may be … portion of the crew. They may be called on by the master or commander of the ship, in case of imminent danger, either from tempest or enemies, to lend their assistance for the general safety; and in

accord

accord 1 : to bring into agreement 2 : to grant or give esp. as appropriate, due, or earned vi : to be consistent or in harmony NOTE: Accord in this sense is often … : to be consistent or in harmony NOTE: Accord in this sense is often used to introduce a case or an authority that accords with the case or authority just cited, as for example in a sentence

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