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Preamble, in the British Parliament, a Preamble is not often incorporated now in a public Bill, however, it appears in a Bill of great Constitutional importance or in a Bill to give effect to international conventions, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1977, p. 462.Preamble, introduction, preface; also the beginning of an Act of Parliament, etc., serving to portray the interests of its framers, and the mischiefs to be remedied; a good mean to find out the meaning of the statute, and as it were a key to open the understanding thereof, 1 Inst. 79 a; and see the Sussex Peerage Case, (1844) 11 Cl&F 143; Winn v. Mossman, (1869) LR 4 Ex 299; Maxwell on Statutes; Hardcastle on Statutes; Mew's Digest, tit. 'Statute'; the effect of the cases being that as a general rule the preamble is to be resorted to only in case of ambiguity in the statute itself.Preamble, which in early (English) Acts (see, e.g., 4 & 5 W. & M. c. 18, the Act of Settlement, and the Irish Act, 1 Car. 1, c. 1), ...
Goodwill
Goodwill, may be the whole advantage belonging to the firm, its reputation as also connection thereof. It, thus, means that every affirmative advantage as contrasted with negative advantage that has been acquired in carrying on the business whether connected with the premises of business or its name or style, everything connected with or carrying the benefit of the business, Ramnik Vallabhdas Madhwani v. Taraben Pravinlal Madhwani, (2004) 1 SCC 407: AIR 2004 SC 1084 (Partnership Act, 1932, s. 55).A business's reputation, patronage, and other intan-gible assets that are considered when apprising the business, esp. for purchase; The ability to earn income in excess of the an come that would be expected from the business veined as a mere collec-tion of assets, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 703.The advantage or benefit which is acquired by a business, beyond the mere value of the capital, stock, funds, or property employed therein, incon-sequence of the general public patronage and ...
Institutions
Institutions. It was the object of Justinian to comprise in his Code and Digest, or Pandects, a complete body of law. But these works were not adapted to the purposes of elementary instruction, and the writings of the ancient jurists were no longer allowed to have any authority, except so far as they had been incorporated in the digest, Smith's Dict. of Antiq. It was therefore necessary to prepare an elementary treatise, and the Institutes were published a month before the Pandects, A.D. 533, and designed as an elementary introduction to legal study (legum cunabula). The work was divided into four books, subdivided into titles.The Institutes are the elements of the Roman Law, and were composed at the command of the Emperor Justinian, by Trebonian, Dorotheus, and The ophilus, who took them from the writings of the ancient lawyers, and chiefly from those of Gaius especially from his Institutes and his books called Aureorum (i.e., of important matters).The Institutes are divided into four...
inducement
inducement 1 : factual matter presented by way of introduction or background to explain the principal allegations of a legal cause (as of slander or libel) compare innuendo 2 : a significant offer or act that promises or encourages [the s amounted to entrapment] ...
judicial notice
judicial notice : recognition by the court of a fact that is not reasonably disputable and without the introduction of supporting evidence [took judicial notice that January 1 is a legal holiday] [a motion for judicial notice of a fact] ...
rest
rest : to bring to an end voluntarily the introduction of evidence in a case [the defense s] vt : to cease presenting evidence pertinent to (a case) [I my case] ...
rule of completeness
rule of completeness :a rule permitting a party to require introduction of the rest of or more of a document or recorded statement that is being used as evidence by the opposing party NOTE: The rule of completeness applies when fairness demands consideration of the part of a document left out at the same time as the part that has been introduced. ...
cenogenesis
The introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species as addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution a modified evolution in which nonprimitive characters make their appearance in consequence of a secondary adaptation of the embryo to the peculiar conditions of its environment distinguished from palingenesis...
Cromlech
A monument of rough stones composed of one or more large ones supported in a horizontal position upon others They are found chiefly in countries inhabited by the ancient Celts and are of a period anterior to the introduction of Christianity into these countries...
Exordium
A beginning an introduction especially the introductory part of a discourse or written composition which prepares the audience for the main subject the opening part of an oration...
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