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Contract
of the best modern writers appears to be to define ' contract ' as an agreement enforce-able at law,' but contended that this definition seems rather too narrow. Every contract is founded upon the mutual agree-ment of … Contract, an agreement between competent parties, to do or to abstain from doing some act. For numerous other definitions, see Chalmers's Sale of Goods
Abstract of title
statutory or agreed commencement need not be abstracted, Williams v. Spargo, 1893 WN 100. For other instances, see L. P. Act, 1925, s. 45, and Wolstenholme and Cherry, Conv. Acts, 2nd ed., p. 302. Upon a sale or
Sovereignty
or a number of individuals, or in the whole body of the people. Sovereignty according to its normal legal connotation is the supreme power which govern the body politic, or society which constitutes the state and the … Sovereignty, means 'supremacy in respect of power, dominion or rank; supreme dominion authority or rule. Sovereignty is the right to govern. The term sovereignty as
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Budget
May, 22nd Edn., 2001. Budget, is the annual estimate of revenue and expenditure of a country, Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English, A.S. Hornby, 2002, p. 155. Budget, is a periodic assessment of and programmes for
Shall
followed, the proceeding or the out-come of the proceeding would be invalid, State of Uttar Pradesh v. Manbodhan Lal, AIR 1957 SC 912. Shall, in stating the case or condition, 'where any person shall find himself aggrieved.' … a word of slippery semantics in a rule is not decisive and the context of the statute, the purpose of the prescription, the public injury in the event of neglect of the rule and the conspectus of
Guillotine
Dictionary, H.W. Fowler and F.G. Fowler, p. 548. Is the most drastic method of curtailing debate in a legislature, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 410. In the House of commons, guillotine can be applied
Appeal
Appeal [fr. appellatio, Lat.; appeller, Fr.]. the judicial examination of the decision by a higher Court of the decision of an inferior … the House of Lords (see s. 3 of the (English) Appellate Jurisdiction Act, 1876, c. 59), from the Petty Sessions to Quarter Sessions, where the appeal is by way of retrial (see s. 19 of the (English)
Collective responsibility
concept. The country is governed by the party in power on the basis of the policies adopted and laid down by it in the Cabinet meeting. 'Collective responsibility' has two meanings: the first meaning which can legitimately … Collective responsibility, the concept of collective responsibility is essentially a political concept. The country is governed by the party in power on the basis of the policies adopted and
Impeachment
Impeachment, a prosecution by the House of Commons before the House of Lords of any person, either peer or commoner, for treason, or other high crimes and misdemeanours, or of a … Impeachment, a prosecution by the House of Commons before the House of Lords of any person, either peer or commoner, for
Schedule
Schedule, a small scroll; a writing additional or appendant, as a list of fixtures in a lease or details of any matter contained in the body of a deed, document., … the body of a deed, document., or of enactments repealed and other supplementary matter in an Act of Parliament, e.g., the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, which has twenty-two schedules; an inventory. --shall mean a schedule to the
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