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Appointment in exercise of a Power

nominal shares are to be valid in equity as well as in law and are not to be invalidated on the ground that any object of the power is thereby excluded or takes an illusory share. See

separate but equal

Supreme Court that sanctioned the segregation of individuals by race in separate but equal facilities but that was invalidated as unconstitutional see also Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka and Plessy v. Ferguson in the Important

saving clause

if part is held invalid ;also : a contractual clause providing that if part of the contract is invalidated the rest shall remain in effect called also savings clause

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leaflet

leaflet : a usually folded printed sheet intended for free distribution vi -let·ed or: -let·ted -let·ing or: -let·ting : to hand out leaflets [invalidated an ordinance banning all leafleting "David Kairys"] vb leased leas·ing vt 1...

Illusory Appointments Act, 1830

16th, 1830, in exercise of a power to appoint property, real or personal, among several objects, shall be invalid, or impeached in equity, on the ground that an unsubstantial, illusory, or nominal share only was thereby appointed,

Family unit

to be aggregated with the lands of other members of the family unit not because the partition is invalid but because the land held by him, howsoever acquired, is liable to be clubbed with the lands of

Ignorance of law is no excuse

know that a piece of legislation enacted by a legislature if competent jurisdiction must be held to be invalid, in case it prescribes a differential treatment, and he must therefore, refuse to submit to it or incur

Harmonious construction

the sense which would carry out its objects and reject that which renders the exercise of its powers invalid, New India Sugar Mills Ltd. v. Commissioner, Sales Tax, AIR 1963 SC 1207 (1213).

Hague conference

Matters (The Hague, 15th November, 1965; (1969); Cmnd. 3986): RSC Ord. 11, r. 5(8). The convention does not invalidate any bilateral civil procedure convention already in force. The following countries are parties to the convention: Barbados, Belgium,

Guaranty, or Guarantee

c. 97), provides that no promise to answer for the debt, etc., of another is to be deemed invalid to support an action, by reason that the consideration does not appear in writing (s. 3). By s.

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