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adopt
: to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) as one's own child esp. in compliance with formal legal procedures see also equitable adoption 2 : to take or accept as if one's own [[the company] ed … adopt 1 : to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) as one's own child esp. in compliance with formal legal procedures see also equitable adoption 2 : to
Land
Land, in its restrained sense, means soil, but in its legal acceptation it is a generic term, comprehend-ing every … 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
Jurisdiction
Jurisdiction, is a verbal coat of many colours. Jurisdiction originally seems to have had the meaning which Lord Reid ascribed to it in Anisminic Ltd. v. Foreign Compensation Commission, (1969) 2 AC 147, namely, the entitlement … M.L. Sethi v. R.P. Kapur, (1972) 2 SCC 427: (1973) 1 SCR 697. Jurisdiction, legal authority; extent of power; declaration of the law. Jurisdiction may be limited either locally, as that of a County Court, or personally,
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Censure motion
minister or ministers of the Government, Office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth, Wilding and Philip Laundy, p. 775. In France too, a motion of no-confidence is called the motion of caesure and when it
Trust
the testator has imposed upon him, Mahadeo Ramchandra v. Damodar Vishwanath, AIR 1957 Bom 218: (1957) 59 Bom LR 478. Means any arrangement whereby property is transferred with intention that it be administered for another's benefit is … not only the relationship of trustee and beneficiary but also that a bailor and bailee master and servant pledger and pledgee, guardian and ward and all other relations which postulate the existence of fiduciary relationship between the
Specific performance
regulated and judicial discretion, the actual accomplishment of a thing stipulated for, on the ground that what is lawfully agreed to be done ought to be done, and that damages at law for breach of the contract … Specific performance. Equity, in obedience to the cardinal rule of natural justice that a person should perform his agreement enforces,
Renewal of lease
Renewal of lease, a re-grant of an expiring lease for a further term. Where a lease contains a covenant by the … renewal, this convenant is commonly subject to the condition that the covenants in the lease shall have been performed by the lessee, and this condition is strongly enforced by the Court, Finch v. Underwood, (1876) 2 Ch
Run with the land-Run with the reversion
Run with the land-Run with the reversion. A covenant is said to 'run with the land,' either leased or conveyed in fee, … is said to 'run with the land,' either leased or conveyed in fee, when either the liability to perform it, or the right to take advantage of it, passes to the assignee of that land. A covenant
Trust for sale
Trust for sale. Trusts for sale of land were commonly crated in settlements and well-drawn wills. The effect was to convert realty into personalty so that … sale of land were commonly crated in settlements and well-drawn wills. The effect was to convert realty into personalty so that the proceeds devolved upon the beneficiaries as personalty unless they elected to take the property as
Fraudulent conveyances, Statutes against
Fraudulent conveyances, Statutes against, sect. 172 of the (English) L.P. Act, 1925, now provides that every conveyance of property made either or before 1925 with intent to defraud
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