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Queen consort

with the King's Counsel. She may likewise be sued and sue alone, without joining her husband; she is indeed considered as a feme sole, and not as a feme covert. See Co. Litt. 133 a; Jac. Law

Under is obvious

be taken to have same meaning as the word 'of' which may bring in the notion of ownership. Indeed the concept of under can be relevant only when there are two entities one of which may be

Witness

'witness', which must be understood in its natural sense, i.e., as referring to a person who furnishes evidence. Indeed, every positive volitional act which furnishes evidence is testimony, and testimonial compulsion connotes coercion which procures the positive

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Whoever legally bound by an oath or by an express provisions of law to state the truth

he cannot after he has taken the oath to make a truthful statement, state anything which is false. Indeed the very sanctity of the oath requires that a person put on oath must state the truth, Ranjit

Water

refers to water in tanks or wells and does not refer to the flowing water of the river. Indeed, if a grant of the river including it flowing water is intended to be made, the Sanad would

Void transaction which is not to be recognised

between a trans-action being void, that is non-existent from its very inception and a ban against its recognition. Indeed, when it is said that such a transaction is not to be recognized for any purpose whatsoever, it

Vistarama

Vistarama, vista+panorama, 'Indeed, the vistarama of child law persuades any sensitive society to give a high place, in its corpus juris, to child development.' [A Code for Child Rights in Legally Speaking, p. 186 (189)] (Justice...

Universal agent

to do. Such an universal agency may potentially exist, but it must be of the rarest occurrence. And indeed it is difficult to conceive of the existence of such an agency practically, inasmuch as it would be

Substitution

or always connotes two severable steps, that is to say, one of repeal and another of fresh enactment. Indeed, the natural meaning of the word 'substitution' is to indicate that the process cannot be split up into

Ratio decidendi

the purposes of the doctrine of precedents, ingredients No. (ii) is the vital element in the decision. This indeed is the ratio decidendi. It is not every thing said by a Judge constitutes a precedent. The principle

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