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Specie, metallic money. Anything in specie is anything in its own form, not any equivalent, substitute, or reparation.According to common parlance the word 'specie' means any metallic coin which is used as currency and if that be the true meaning, it is obvious that ornaments and other articles of gold cannot be described as 'specie', Dy. S.T. Commr. v. G.S. Pai, AIR 1980 SC 611 (613): (1980) 1 SCC 142....
specie
specie [from in specie, from Latin, in kind] : money in coin in specie : in the identical form and without alteration or substitution [an agreement to be carried out in specie] ...
endangered species
A species of plant or animal that has declined in numbers to a point where further irreversible decline and extinction3 has a significant chance Lists of endangered species are maintained by government agencies and in many cases the killing of such species or destruction of their habitat is prohibited by law...
Bullion and specie
Bullion and specie, Gold ornaments and other articles of gold are not bullion and specie, C.S.T. v. N.P. Ammalu, (1983) 2 SCC 79: AIR 1983 SC 493....
Dangerous species
Dangerous species, is one which is not commonly domesticated in the British Island, and whose fully-grown animals normally have such characteristics that they are likely, unless restrained, to cause severe damage, or that any damage they may cause is likely to be severe, Halsbury's Laws of England (2), para 467, p. 234....
In specie
In specie, in its own form and essence, not in the form of an equivalent: in coin, as distinguished from paper money....
oystercatcher
Any one of several species of wading birds of the genus Haeligmatopus having stout legs and bill and mostly black and white plumage which frequent seashores and feed upon oysters and other shellfish The European species Haeligmatopus ostralegus the common American species Haeligmatopus palliatus and the California or black oyster catcher Haeligmatopus Bachmani are the best known...
Tenure
Tenure, cannot be equated with 'terms and con-ditions of services' or payment of gravity or pension. Tenure when followed by words of office, means term of office, Punjab University v. Khalsa College, Amritsar, AIR 1971 P&H 479: 1971 Cur LJ 334.Means a right, term, or mode of holding lands or tenements in subordination to a superior; in fendal times, real property was held predominantly as part of a tenure system, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1481.Tenure, the mode of holding property. The only tenures in land now existing with a few unimpor-tant exceptions are (1) free and common socage in fee-simple, including enfranchised copyhold, which is subject to paramount incidents; and (2) a term of years absolute (see LAND). The idea of tenure or holding is said to derive from feudalism, which separated the dominium directum (the dominion of the soil), which it placed mediately, or immediately, in the Crown, from the dominium utile (the possessory title), the right to use the profits ...
De injuria sua propria absque tali causa
De injuria sua propria absque tali causa (of his own wrong, without any such cause as alleged), more compendiously called the traverse de injuria, a species of traverse by replication in pleading, now obsolete, which varied from the common form, and which, though confined to particular actions, and to a particular stage of the pleadings, was of frequent occurrence. It always tendered issue; but, on the other hand, differed (like many of the general issues) from the common form of a traverse, by denying in general and summary terms, and not in the words of the allegation traversed.This species of traverse occurred in the replication in actions of trespass, trespass on the case (including a species of assumpsit), and in the plea in bar in replevin, but was not used in any other stages of the pleadings, See Steph. On Plead.All the advantages of this replication were obtained in every case by joining issue, as provided by the C.L.P. Act, 1852, s. 79, now replaced by R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XIX.,...
Shad
Any one of several species of food fishes of the Herring family The American species Alosa sapidissima formerly Clupea sapidissima which is abundant on the Atlantic coast and ascends the larger rivers in spring to spawn is an important market fish The European allice shad or alose Alosa alosa formerly Clupea alosa and the twaite shad Alosa finta formerly Clupea finta are less important species...
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