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Incapacity, means (1) Lack of physical or mental capabilities (2) Lack of ability to have certain legal consequences attach to one's actions. For ex. a five-year old has an incapacity to make binding contract (3) Disability, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 764....
incapacity
incapacity pl: -ties 1 : the quality or state of being incapable ;esp : lack of legal qualifications due to age or mental condition compare capacity 2 : the inability of an injured worker to perform the duties required in a job for which he or she is qualified compare disability ...
ward
ward 1 : a division of a city for representative, electoral, or administrative purposes 2 a : a person who by reason of incapacity (as minority or incompetency) is under the control of a guardian b : a person who by reason of incapacity is under the protection of a court either directly or through a guardian appointed by the court called also ward of the court compare interdict ward·ship n ...
Impotent, Impotency
Impotent, Impotency, a party is impotent if his or her mental or physical condition makes cons-ummation of the marriage a practical impossibility. The condition must be one, according to the statute, which existed at the time of the marriage and continued to be so until the institution of the pro-ceedings. Impotency means incapacity to consum-mate the marriage and not merely incapacity for procreation (Indian Divorce Act, s. 19). In order to entitle the appellant to obtain a decree of nullity, as prayed for by him, he will have to establish that his wife, was impotent at the time of the marriage and continued to be so until the institution of the proceedings, Digvijay Singhji v. Pratap Kumari, (1969) 2 SCC 279: AIR 1970 SC 137 (138). [Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, s. 12(1) (a)]...
Regency
Regency, a temporary monarchy--the rule of a person appointed to administer a kingdom during the incapacity, minority, or absence of the sovereign. The (English) Regency Act, 1937 (1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6, c. 16), provides for the person next in line of succession to the Crown, if qualified, to be the 'Regent' during the minority or incapacity of the Sovereign.The office or jurisdiction of a regent or body of regents, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
Ill health
Ill health, any disorder in health which incapacitates an individual from discharging the duties en-trusted to him or affects his work adversely or comes in the way of his normal and effective functioning can be covered by the said phrase. The phrase has also to be construed from the point of view of the consumers of the concerned products and services. If on account of a workman's disease or incapacity or debility in functioning, the resultant product or the service is likely to be affected in any way or to become a risk to the health, life or property of the consumer, the disease or incapacity has to be categorised as ill-health for the purpose of the said sub-clause. Otherwise, the purpose of production for which the services of the workman are engaged will be frustrated and worse still in cases such as the present one they will endanger the lives and the property of the consumers. The phrase would include cases of drivers who have developed a defective or sub-normal vision or eyesi...
Estrays
Estrays, such valuable animals as are found wandering in a manor or lordship, the owner whereof is not known; in which case the law gives them to the Sovereign, and they now most commonly belong to the lord of the manor by special grant from the Crown. But they must be proclaimed in the church and two market towns next adjoining to the place where they are found; and then, if no person claim them, after proclamation and a year and a day passed, they belong to the Sovereign or his substitute, without a redemption, even though the owner was a minor or under any other legal incapacity. The doctrine of estrays is only applicable to animals domit' natur', 2 Steph. Com.A valuable tame animal founds wandering and ownerless; an animal that his escaped from its owner and wanders about, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 572....
Conveyancing Acts (English)
Conveyancing Acts (English). See LAW OF PRO-PERTY. These Acts, of which the principal were the Vendor and Purchaser Act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 78), the C. Act, 1881, as amended by the Acts of 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 39), 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 13), 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 37), were all repealed, and partly replaced and extended by the Law of Property Act, 1925. The Conveyancing Act, 1881, was a simplifying and Codifying Act introduced by Lord Cairns. It embodied the provisions of previous statutes, the effect of legal decisions, and the practice of conveyancers much of which had already been crystallized in common form. Some of the old forms were very lengthy, and required to be inserted with or without modification in every important conveyance of land. The Act of 1881 related inter alia to contracts, conveyances, mortgages, leases, dispositions by married women, or on behalf of infants or other persons under incapacity....
Denman's (Lord) Act
Denman's (Lord) Act (amending the law of evidence (6 & 7 Vict. c. 85 (the Evidence Act, 1843) provides that no person offered as a witness shall be excluded by reason of incapacity from crime or interest from giving evidence....
Dependant and dependent
Dependant and dependent. Under s. 4 of the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925:--(1) The dependants of a workman entitled to claim compensation under this Act where the injury results in death are such of the members of the workman's family as were wholly or in part dependent upon the earnings of the workman at the time of his death, or would but for the incapacity due to the accident, have been so dependent, and where the workman, being the parent or grand-parent of an illegitimate child, leaves such a child so dependent upon his earn-ings, or, being an illegitimate child, leaves a parent or grandparent so dependent upon his earnings, shall include such an illegitimate child and parent or grandparent respectively.(2) A person shall not be deemed to be a partial dependant of another person unless he was dependent partially on contributions from that other person for the provision of the ordinary necessaries of life suitable for persons in his class and position.(3) 'Member of a family' me...
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