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Badge of fraud

Badge of fraud, means a circumstance that the courts generally interpret as a reliable indicator that a party to a transaction was trying to hinder or defraud the other

Brought into the city

Brought into the city, To interpret the expression 'brought into the city' used in s. 126(1) of the Calicat Municipal Act, 1961 as meaning

course of performance

performances that creates an understanding between the parties as to performance and that may be used to help interpret their agreement in instances of dispute compare course of dealing, practical construction, usage of trade

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Desirable

Desirable, this is a difficult test to interpret, for it is framed both in terms of a jurisdictional threshold ('only where') and in terms of the

Giving notice in writing

modern devices and equipment already in vogue and also in store for future. If the Court were to interpret the words 'giving notice in writing' in the s. as restricted to the customary mode of sending notice

Held

own. ' In The Dictionary of English Law by Earl Jowitt (1959 Edition), the word 'hold' has been interpreted as meaning 'to have as tenant'. In Stroud's Judicial Dictionary (Fourth Edition), the distinction between holding and occupation

Optimus interpres rerum usus

Optimus interpres rerum usus [Lat.], the best interpreter of things is usage. --2 Inst. 282, (Custom is the best interpreter of things.) See Broom's Leg. Max.

jurisdiction

law + dictio act of saying, from dicere to say] 1 : the power, right, or authority to interpret, apply, and declare the law (as by rendering a decision) [to be removed to the State having of

Upto

Upto, may include the last day or may not, and if it is in consonance with justice to interpret it in one of the ways permissible, there can be no complaint on the other side, Musharraf Hussain

Under any customary or personal law applicable to parties

must be a rational relation between the sum so paid and its potential as provision for main-tenance; to interpret otherwise is to stultify the project. Law is dynamic and its meaning cannot be pedantic but purposeful, Bai

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