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Eat inde sine die

Eat inde sine die, words used on the acquittal of a defendant, 'that he may go thence without a day,' i.e., be dismissed without any further trial or adjournment....

Non facias malum ut inde veniat bonum

Non facias malum ut inde veniat bonum [Lat.], you are not to do evil that good may thence arise....

Directors, persons appointed or elected according to law, authorized to manage and direct the affairs of a corporation or company. The whole of the directors collectively form the board of directors. Their powers, if the company be incorporated by Act of Parliament, are derived from its special Acts and ss. 90-100 of the (English) Companies Clauses Act, 1845; if the company be incorporated under the (English) Companies Act, 1929, see ss. 139 et seq., ibid. The company is bound by all acts of the directors within the scope of their authority. They may receive a salary, but may make no personal profit from the company [see, however, Re Dover Coalfield Ltd., (1908) 1 Ch 65], nor can a pension be granted to a retiring managing director, Normandy v. Ind, Coope & Co., (1908) 1 Ch 84; but they were under no personal liability except for fraud, as to the criminal liability for which see Larceny Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 96), ss. 81 et seq., and DECEIT. Public companies registered after Octob...

Malconna

Malconna, a treasury or storehouse in Hindustan, Rob. Ind. Glos....

Mulla

Mulla, the word 'Mulla' is defined as a learned man. This obviously is the etymological meaning, being the same as Moulvi or Maulana, but it has also got the secondary meaning of a village schoolmaster or a person in charge of mosque, Bala Tripura Sundaramma v. Secretary of State, (106) Ind Cas 891: 1928 Mad 282....

Parole

Parole is not a suspension of sentence, but is a substitution, during continuance of parole, of lower grade of punishment by confinement in legal custody and under control of warden within specified prison bounds outside the prison, for confinement within the prison adjudged by the court, Jenkins v. Madigan CA Ind, 211 F 2d 904.A parole relates to executive action taken after the door has been closed on a convict. During parole period there is no suspension of sentence but sentence is actually continuing to run during that period also, State of Haryana v. Nauratta Singh, AIR 2000 SC 1179 (1182): (2002) 3 SCC 514. (Criminal PC, 1973, ss. 432, 433A, 389, 482)The promise made by a prisoner of war, when he has leave to go anywhere, to return at a time appointed, or not to take up arms till exchanged.Release on parole is a wing of the reformative process and is expected to provide opportunity to the prisoner to transform himself into a useful citizen. It is also an act of grace and not a ma...

Principal and agent

Principal and agent, he who being sui juris, and competent to do any act for his own benefit on his own account, employs another person to do it, is called the principal constituent, or employer, and he who is thus employed is called the agent, attorney, proxy, or delegate of the principal, constituent or employer. The relation thus created between the parties is termed an agency. The power thus delegated is called in law an authority. And the act, when performed, is often designated as an act of agency or procuration, Story on Agency, 3. See AGENT; POWER OF ATTORNEY; VICARIOUS RESPONSIBILITY; and consult Bowstead on Agency or Wright on Principal and Agent.Principal and agent, expressions 'principal' and 'agent' used in a document are not decisive. The nature of transaction is required to be determined on the basis of the substance there and not by the nomenenture use, Assam Small Scale Ind. Dev. Corporation Ltd. v. M/s J.D. Pharmacenficalse Ltd., AIR 2006 SC 131....

Zerait

Zerait, is used to denote all lands in direct cultiva-tion of an indigo planter for cultivation of indigo as distinguished from cultivation of indigo by raiyats, Santokhi Mandar v. Rameshwar Singh, 114 Ind Cas 469: AIR 1929 Pat 41.The word 'zerait' means proprietor's private lands, AIR 1925 Pat 241....

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