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Registration of title of land
ss. 1 and 205 of the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, may, and in districts where registration is compulsory must, as a rule be … Registration of title of land. The (English) Land Registration Act, 1925 (15 Geo. 5, c. 21), repeals and re-enacts … 1925 (15 Geo. 5, c. 21), repeals and re-enacts the (English) Land Transfer Acts, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 87) and 1897 (60 & 61 Vict. c. 65), with amendments in keeping with innovations which were
Property
movable property is included in the ordinary connotation of the word 'property', Chunni Lal v. State, AIR 1968 Raj 70. In commercial law this may carry its ordinary meaning of the subject-matter of ownership. But elsewhere, as
Information
Traffic Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 53), s. 112, may be brought by the Road Traffic Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. … Information, an accusation, or complaint, also, communicated knowledge. Information means any material in any form, including records, documents, memos, e-mails, opinions, advices, press-releases, circulars, orders, logbooks, contracts, reports, papers, samples, models, data material held in … instituted on behalf of the Crown or Government, or of those of whom it had the custody by virtue of its prerogative (such as idiots and lunatics), or whose rights are under its particular protection (such as
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Drunkenness
to form any intention at all, and yet he may by guilty of very great violence.'--Per Patterson, J., in R. v. Cruse, (1838) 8 C&P 541. Thus if a man is so drunk that he is incapable of knowing
Criminal Evidence Act
the defence at every stage of the proceedings. 'Proceedings' do not include the inquiry before the grand jury, R. v. Rhodes, 1899 (1) QB 77. Eight provisos follows, to the following effect:-- (a) The person charged is not … provides (s. 1) that every person charged with an offence, and the wife or husband, as the case may be, of the person so charged, shall be a competent witness for the defence at every stage of
Bail
application to the Divisional Court, but cannot, it is submitted, appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeal: see R. v. Foote, (1883) 10 QBD 379; Ex parte Pulbrook, 1892 (1) QB 86. It is a criminal offence to … of those who bind themselves or become bail for his due appearance when required, in order that he may be safely protected from prison, to which they have, if they fear his escape, etc., the legal power
Person
appears, Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 19. A corporation, such as a limited company, may be a 'respectable and responsible person' within the meaning of a covenant against assignment in a lease, Willmott v. London Road Car Co.,
Just
Just, the expression 'just' denotes equitability, fairness and reasonableness, and non arbitrary. If it is not so it cannot be just (See Helen C. Rebello v. Maharashtra … the latin word Justus. It has various meanings and its meaning is often governed by the context. 'Just' may apply in nearly all of its senses, either to ethics or law, denoting something which is morally right
Judgment
redress to one party, or discharge of the other, as the case may be. By the (English) C.L.P. Act,1852, s. 120, a plaintiff or defendant … now used generally except in matrimonial causes, the term 'judgment' including 'decree' [(English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 225, replacing Jud. Act,1873, s. 100]. The several species of judgments are either:- (a) Interlocutory, given in the course of … only intermediate, and does not finally determine or complete the action. See INQUIRY; SUMMONSES; and ORDERS; and the various titles of the subjects of such judgments as MANDAMUS; INJUNC-TION, etc. (b) Final, putting an end to the
Contempt of court
show cause why he should not be committed, and is allowed to file affidavits in the matter. See R. v. Cstro (Onslow and Whalley's case), (1873) LR 9 QB 219; McLeod v. St. Aubyn, 1899 AC 549; and … without such gross insolence or direct opposition, plainly tend to create a universal disregard of their authority. Contempts may be divided into acts of contempt committed in the Court itself (in facie curi') and out of Court.
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