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Impair

used in reference to diminishing the value of a contractual obligation to the point that the contract becomes invalid or a party loses the benefit of the contract, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 754.

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,

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

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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.

Foreign Attachment

(1881) 6 App Cas 393, which exempts corporations from the process, and decides that fictitious summonses render it invalid. These decisions have had the effect of reducing foreign attachment to little more than a subject of historical

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

Institutions

may be acquired. Title III. shows how a Testament made in the form prescribed by law, and not invalidated, may be carried into execution, which is done by the heir accepting the succession. Fiduciary Bequests are treated

Dying intestate

Dying intestate, a person dies intestate either not having made any Will or having made an invalid Will, Manshan v. Tej Ram AIR 1980 SC 558: (1980) Supp SCC 367.

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