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Rudmas-day

feast of the Holy Cross. There are two of these feats: one on the 3rd of May, the Invention of the Cross; and the other on the 14th of September, called the Holy Rood-day, the Exaltation of

Register of writs

Henry VIII. were all of them identically the same with those used at the first origin of this invention, in the reign of Henry II. It is not to be wondered at that there should be a

Public policy, opposed to public policy

shirked from extending it to new transactions and changed circumstances and have at times not even flinched from inventing a new head of public policy. Practices which were considered perfectly normal at one time have today become

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Possibility on a possibility

a. The idea that there cannot be a possibility and a possibility seems to have been a conceit invented by Popham, C.J., but it was never really intelligible, Whitby v. Mitchell, (1890) 44 Ch D p. 92,

Pharmaceutical substance

Pharmaceutical substance, means any new entity involving one or more inventive steps. [Patents Act, 1970, s. 2(ta)]

Permissive use

order to avoid a harsh law, as that of mortmain or a feudal forfeiture; it was a mere invention in order to evade the law by secrecy, as a conveyance to A to the use of B.

Exclusive licence

him, to the exclusion of all other persons (including the patentee), any right in respect of the patented invention, and exclusive licensee shall be construed accordingly. [Patents Act, 1970, s. 2 (1) (f)] It means a licence

Patent-right

Patent-right, the exclusive privilege granted by the Crown to the first inventor of a new manufacture of making Articles according to his invention. See LETTERS-PATENT.

Patent

that a patent once granted confers on the patentee the exclusive privilege of making, selling and using the invention throughout India and of authorising others so to do. This is the quo. The quid is compliance with

Passive trust

hardships of the Common Law, the permanent division of property into legal and equitable interests being clearly an invention to lessen the force of some pre-existing law. For similar reasons equitable interests were after the statute revived

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