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Law-hand, means an outmoded rococo method of handwriting once used by scribes in preparing legal documents. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 892....
Rule of law
Rule of law, executive instructions cannot override the provisions of law, such a method will destroy the very basis of the rule of law, Muna Lal Jain v. State of Assam, AIR 1962 SC 386.Rule of law, is an absolute supremacy and predominance of regular law as opposed to the influence of arbitrary power; equality before the law or the equal subjection of all classes to the ordinary law courts, constitution is the result of the ordinary law of the land, Introduction to the Study of the Law of Constitution, A.V. Dicey, 2003, pp. 202-203.Means an authoritative legal doctrine, principle or precept applied to the facts of an appropriate case, Wright v. Wright, 904 P 2d 403 (1995).Rule of law, the binding character of judgments pronounced by courts of competent jurisdiction is itself an essential part of the rule of law, and the rule of law obviously is the basis of the administration of justice on which constitution lays emphasis, Daryo v. State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1961 SC 1457.Rule of law,...
Lawful, Legal
Lawful, Legal, legal and litigious, Litigious and lawful possession are concepts of varying legal shades deriving their colour from the setting in which they emerge. Epithet used itself indicates the filed in which they operate. The one pertains to disputed in which possession may be coterminous with physical or de facto control, only, whereas the domain of other is control with some legal basis. The former may be uncertain in character and may even be without any basis or interest but the latter is founded on some rule, sanction or excuse. Dictionarily 'litigious' means 'disputed' (Concise Oxford Dictionary) or 'disputable' or 'marked by intention to quarrel' (Webster Third New International Dictionary), 'inviting controversy', 'relating to or marked by litigation', 'that which is the subject of law suit'. (Black's Law Dictionary) Lawful on the other hand is defined as, 'legal, warranted or authorised by law'. Jurisprudentially a person in physical control or de facto possession may h...
Hand-fasting
Hand-fasting, betrothment.A behothed; marrying by clasping another's hand and agreeing to live together as husband and wife, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 720....
Planning
Planning, as that term is used in connection with community development is a generic term, rather than a word of art, and has no fixed meaning. Broadly speaking, however, the term connotes the systematic development of a community or an area with particular reference to the location, character, and extent of streets, squares, and parks, and to kindred mapping and charting, American Jurisprudence, 2nd (Vol. 82, at p. 388).Planning, connotes a systematic development contrived to promote the common interest in matters, embraced within the police power, with particular reference to the localities, character, and extent of streets, squares, parks, and to kindred mapping and charting, Manaklal Chottebai v. M.G. Makwana, (1968) 1 SCJ 379.Laws dealing with development planning are indis-pensable to sanitation and healthy urbanization. Development planning comprehensively takes care of statutory, manual, administrative and land-use laws hand in hand with architectural creativity. In the words o...
Law of Property Act, 1925 (English)
Law of Property Act, 1925 (English) 915 Geo. 5,c. 20), with amending Acts, 1926, 1929 and 1932 (cited together as the Law of Property Acts, 1925 to 1932), has consolidated and effected changes in the land laws with the object of simplifying the transfer and conveyance of land. An important change was the abolition of all legal estates or tenures in land, except an estate in fee simple in possession, and a term of years absolute in or in certain incorporeal hereditaments arising out of annexed to or charged upon the legal estate in land. Any number of these legal estates can exist in respect of the same piece of land or incorporeal hereditament; for instance, land may be held in fee simple, leased and mortgaged at the same time. all other estate and interests inland are reduced to equitable interests. All mortgages of the same legal estate under the statutory conditions are legal estates. None being for the whole fee simple or the term, but each for a term taken out of the fee or origin...
Marumakkattayam law
Marumakkattayam law, means the system of law applicable to persons--(a) who, if this Act had not been passed, would have been governed by the Madras Marumakkattayam Act, 1932 (XXII of 1933); the Travancore Nayar Act (II of 1100); the Travancore Ezhava Act (III of 1100); the Travancore Nanjinad Vellala Act (VI of 1101); the Travancore Kshatriya Act (VII of 1108); the Travancore Krishnanvaka Marumakkathayee Act (VII of 1115); the Cochin Marumakkathayam Act (XXXIII of 1113); or the Cochin Nayar Act (XXIX of 1113), with respect to the matters for which provision is made in this Act; or(b) who belong to any community, the members of which are largely domiciled in the State of Travancore-Cochin or Madras as it existed immediately before the 1st November, 1956, and who, if this Act had not been passed, would have been governed with respect to the matters for which provision is made in this Act by any system of inheritance in which descent is traced through the female line; but does not includ...
Personality of laws
Personality of laws. By the personality of laws, foreign jurists generally mean all laws concerning the condition, state, and capacity of persons; by the reality of laws, all laws which concern property of things; qu' ad rem spectant. Whenever they wish to express that the operation of a law is universal, they compendiously announce that it is a personal statute; and whenever, on the other hand, they wish to express that its operation is confined to the country of its origin, they simply declare it to be a real statute, Story's Confl. Of Laws, 8th Edn. p. 20....
Bloody hand
A hand stained with the blood of a deer which in the old forest laws of England was sufficient evidence of a mans trespass in the forest against venison...
Fore-hand rent
Fore-hand rent, rent payable in advance.A premium paid by tenant on making of lease; esp. on renewal of lease by an ecclesiastical corporation Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 658....
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