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Law department
Law department, means a branch of a corporation, government agency, university, or the like charged with handing the entity's … Law department, means a branch of a corporation, government agency, university, or the like charged with handing the entity's legal affairs, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 891.
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Entrustment
transfer the goods and all rights to them to a purchaser in the ordinary course of business' (Black's Law Dictionary), see also National Insurance Co. Ltd. v. Ishar Das Madan Lal, (2007) 4 SCC 105. The expression … Das Madan Lal, (2007) 4 SCC 105. The expression 'entrustment' carries with it the implication that the person handing over any property or on whose behalf that property is handed over to another, continues to be its
Possession
Mill Ltd. v. Nelson Corp. etc. Ltd., (1942) 2 All ER 477. Possession, is an ambiguous term. The law books divide its concept into two broad categories (i) physical possession or possession in fact; and (ii) legal … personal occupation, but may be possession in law. 'Possession' means 'the state of owning or having in one's hands or power. It includes possession by receipt of rents and profits, Gaddam Vekayamma v. Gaddan Veerayya, (1956) Andh
Rule of law
Rule of law, executive instructions cannot override the provisions of law, such a method will destroy the very basis of the … has really three basic and fundamental assumptions -- one is that law making must be essentially in the hands of a democratically elected legislature, subject of course to any power in the executive in an emergent situation
Occupancy
else lays claim or without leave of the owner. The right of occupancy has been confined by the laws of England within a very narrow compass, e.g., where a person was tenant pur autre vie, or had … be made of an estate pur autre vie of a freehold nature, it shall be chargeable in the hands of the heir or special occupant if it comes to him by reason of special occupancy of an
Piracy
these without addition, subtraction, or trans-position, it is an inroad on the author's right. But, on the one hand, the sentences and words may be so rearranged that, although nothing be added to or taken from them, … robbers. They are, as Cicero has truly stated, the common enemies of all (communes hostes omnium); and the law of nations gives to every one the right to pursue and exterminate them without any previous declaration of
Lien
recognized general lines are bankers', solicitors', factors', stockbrokers'. See Halsb. L.E., title 'Lien.' Particular lines, on the other hand, are favoured by law and also arise by mere operation of law from the relation and acts of … Lien [answering to the tacita hypotheca of the Civil Law], a right in one man to retain that which is in his possession belonging to another, until certain
Executor
property according to his testamentary provisions after his decease. One who performs or carries out some act, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 591. The leading duties and responsibilities of an executor may be thus classed:- (1) … O' Grady v. Wilmot, (1916) 2 AC 231, for the previous law), that may have come to his hands money to the extent of all funeral and testamentary expenses and debts legally paid by him out of
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