Jagannath - Law Dictionary Search Results
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A particular form of Vishnu or of Krishna whose chief idol and worship are at Puri in Orissa The idol is considered to contain the bones of Krishna and to possess a soul The principal festivals are the Snanayatra when the idol is bathed and the Rathayatra when the image is drawn upon a car adorned with obscene paintings Formerly it was erroneously supposed that devotees allowed themselves to be crushed beneath the wheels of this car It is now known that any death within the temple of Jagannath is considered to render the place unclean and any spilling of blood in the presence of the idol is a pollution...
Land
Land, in its restrained sense, means soil, but in its legal acceptation it is a generic term, comprehend-ing every species of ground, soil or earth, whatso-ever, as meadows, pastures, woods, moors, waters, marshes, furze and heath; it includes also houses, mills, castles, and other buildings; for with the conveyance of the land the structures upon it pass also. And besides an indefinite extent upwards, it extends downwards to the globe's centre, hence the maxim, Cujus est solum ejus est usque ad c'lum et ad inferos; or, more curtly expressed, Cujus est solum ejus est altum. See Co. Litt. 4 a.In an (English) Act of Parliament passed after 1850 'land' includes messuages, tenements and hereditaments, houses, and buildings of any tenure, Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 3. By the Law of Property Act,1925, s. 205(1)(ix.), 'land' for the purposes of the Act includes land of any tenure, and mines and minerals, whether or not held apart from the surface, buildings or parts of buildings (whether th...
Juggernaut
One of the names under which Vishnu in his incarnation as Krishna is worshiped by the Hindus See also Jagannath...
Abstraction
Abstraction, the word 'abstraction' in the context of s. 39 means taking or appropriation. Energy may be dishonestly abstracted by artificial means or unauthorised devices. For instance, energy before it passes through a consumer's meter may be abstracted from the main of the electric company by an unauthorised wire connecting the main with a private terminal, the connecting wire is the artificial means for abstraction, Jagannath Singh v. B.S. Ramaswamy, AIR 1966 SC 849 (850): (1966) 1 SCR 885. (Electricity Act, 1910 s. 39)...
Artificial means
Artificial means, the exposure of the stud hole permits the insertion of foreign material inside the meter retarding the rotation of the inside disc, and is thus an 'artificial means' for preventing the meter from duly registering the energy supplied, Jagannath Singh v. B. S Ramaswamy, AIR 1966 SC 849 (851): (1966) 1 SCR 885. (Electricity Act, 1910, ss. 39 and 44)...
Co-owner
Co-owner, has no land on which he could erect a homestead, has preposterous legal implication, Satwant Singh Sodhi v. State of Punjab, (1999) 3 SCC 482.Co-owner, a co-owner is as much an owner of the entire property as any sole owner of a property is, Sri Ram Pasricha v. Jagannath, (1977) 1 SCR 395: (1976) 4 SCC 184: AIR 1976 SC 2335.A co-owner is as much an owner of the entire property as any sole owner of the property is: Jurisprudentially, it is not correct to say that a co-owner of property is not its owner. He owns every part of the composite property along with others and it cannot be said that he is only a part owner or a fractional owner of the property, Kanta Goel v. B.P. Pathak, (1977) 3 SCR 412: (1977) 2 SCC 814: AIR 1977 SC 1599....
Court
Court, compensation officer appointed under (English) Bihar Land Reforms Act, 1950 is not a 'Court' within the meaning of s. 195(1)(b) of the Code of Criminal Procedure Code 1973, Keshab Moroyan Banerjee v. State of Bihar, AIR 2000 SC 485 (490). [Bihar Land Reforms Act (30 of 1950), s. 19]Court, means the principle civil court of original jurisdiction in a district and including the High Court in exercise of the ordinary original civil jurisdiction, having jursidiction to decide the questions forming the subject matter of suit, but does not incude any civil court of a grade inferior to such civil court or any court of small causes.S. 2(*) Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, Raipur Development Authority v. Sarin Construction Company, Raipur, AIR 2006 Chattisgarh 12.The tribunal which is to exercise the jurisdiction for executing the decree in question is 'a court' within the scope of s. 45C of the Banking Companies Act, Ram Narain v. Simla Banking and Industrial Co. Ltd., AIR 1956 S...
Fact of State
Fact of State, The question whether the Dominion of India was entitled to exercise extra provincial jurisdiction over the Shillong administered areas on April 15, 1948 which was the material date. The question at issue is not purely a question of fact but a question relating to a 'fact of State', Hardeodas Jagannath v. State of Assam, AIR 1970 SC 724 (727). (Extra Provincial Jurisdiction Act, 1947, s. 6)...
Fee
Fee [fr. feoh, Sax.; fee, Dan., cattle; feudum, Med. Lat.; feu, Scot.], property peculiar; reward or recom-pense for services. See FEES. Also an estate of inheritance divided into there species: (1) fee-simple absolute; (2) qualified or conditional or base fee, including (3) fee-tail, formerly fee-conditional. By the (English) Law of Properties Act, 1925, s. 1, a fee-simple absolute in possession and a term of years absolute are the only estates in land capable of being conveyed or created at law. All other estates in land take effect as equitable interests [ibid., s. 1 (4)]. See FEE-SIMPLE.A charge for labour or services esp. professional services; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 629.A 'fee' is generally defined to be a charge for a special service rendered to individuals by some governmental agency. The distinction between a tax and a fee lies primarily in the fact that a tax is levied as a part of a common burden, while a fee is a payment for a special benefit or privilege, Com...
Fraud
Fraud, a fraud is an act of deliberate deception with the design of securing something by taking unfair advantage of another. It is a deception in order to gain by another's loss. It is a cheating intended to got an advantage, S.P. Chengalvaraya Naidu v. Jagannath, AIR 1994 SC 853 (855): (1994) 1 SCC 1.A term used in a variety of meanings. At Common Law, fraud is actionable under the heading of deceit (q.v.).A knowing misrepresentation of the truth or con-cealment of a material fact to induce another to act to his or her detriment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 670.In equity and upon the equitable principles which are now applicable in any Court of law, fraud may be described as an infraction of the rules of fair dealing. For the action at law intention and representation (q.v.) are material. In equity an act or its consequences to the person aggrieved may be of greater importance than the intention of the defendant or any representation made to the plaintiff, and the same may b...
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