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Wills

legatee or next of kin, but from this rule of lapse the thirty-third s. makes an important exception for legacies to

Heriot

that Act, until they are extinguished either by compensation or lapse of time (see s. 138, ibid.), but after 1925 [(English)

Living in adultery

course of adulterous relationship as distinguished from 'one or two lapses from virtue, Rajni v. Prabhakar, AIR 1950 Bom 204. No

Parliament prorogation

intention to move for leave to introduce a Bill shall Lapse on prorogation, Rules on Procedure and Conduct of Business in

Forfeiture

two which obtain in reference to ecclesiastical property, viz., (1) lapse; and (2) simony. Forfeiture, according to Black's Law Dictionary 'to

Legacy

and he die before that age or period, the legacy lapses, these expressions being construed as annexing the time to the

Limitation of actions and prosecutions

the statutory period and neither re-entry nor acknowledgment after the lapse of the statutory period will revive it. No verbal acknowledgment

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