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Law relating to, contemplates that the relation must be real, reasonable and prominent and not far-fetched or problematical, Ram Shankar Tewari v. State, 1954 All WR (HC) 334: 1954 Cr LJ 1212: 1954 All 562.Law relating to, the effect of the amendment made in Art. 19(6) of the Constitution of India is to protect the law relating to the creation of monopoly and that means that it is only the provisions of the law which are integrally and essentially connected with the creation of the monopoly that are protected. The rest of the provisions which may be incidental do not fall under the latter part of Art. 19(6) and would inevitably have to satisfy the test of the first part of Art. 19(6), Virajlal Manilal and Co. v. State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1970 SC 129: (1969) 2 SCC 248: (1979) 1 SCR 400. [Constitution of India, Art. 19(6)]....
Law relating to State monopoly
Law relating to State monopoly, 'a law relating to' a State monopoly cannot in the context, include all the provisions contained in the said law whether they have direct relation with the creation of the monopoly or not. The said expression should be construed to mean the law relating to the monopoly in its absolutely essential features, Akadasi v. State of Orissa, 1963 Supp (2) SCR 691: AIR 1963 SC 1047 (1054). [Constitution of India, Article, 19(6)]...
The law relating to evacuee property
The law relating to evacuee property, by defining the words 'the law relating to evacuee property' in clause (b) of s. 2 of the Repealing Act to mean the Administration of Evacuee Property Act, 1950, the Evacuee Interest (Separation) Act, 1951, the Dis-placed Persons (Compensation and Rehabilitation) Act, 1954 and any other law for the time being in force in relation to evacuees or evacuee property, the Legislature intended to give the same powers to the Custodian in dealing with the trust properties as he enjoys in respect of other evacuee property, Sir Fazalbhoy Currimbhoy v. Official Trustee of Maharashtra, AIR 1979 SC 687: (1979) 3 SCC 189: (1979) 2 SCR 699....
Administrative law
Administrative law, is a separate body of rules relating to administrative authorities and officials, applied in special administrative court. Dicey's Law of the Constitution, 1st Edn. 1885. Dicey's Law of Constitution, 10th Edn., p. 330. See also Re Grosvenor Hotel, London, (No. 2), 1965 Ch D 1210 at p. 1261: (1964) 3 All ER 354; Re Racal case of Anisminic Ltd. v. Foreign Compensation Commission, (1969) 2 AC 147: (1969) 1 All ER 208 (HL); Breen v. Amalgamated Engineering Union, (1971) 2 QB 175: (1971) 1 All ER 148.Administrative law is understood to mean the law relating to the discharge of functions of a public nature in government and administration. It includes the law relating to functions of public authorities and officers and of tribunals, judicial review of the exercise of those functions, the civil liability and legal protection of those purporting to exercise them and aspects of the means whereby extra-judicial redress may be obtainable at the instance of persons aggrieved. H...
Information
Information, an accusation, or complaint, also, communicated knowledge.Information means any material in any form, including records, documents, memos, e-mails, opinions, advices, press-releases, circulars, orders, logbooks, contracts, reports, papers, samples, models, data material held in any electronic form and information relating to any private body which can be accessed by a public authority under any other law for the time being in force. [Right to Information Act, 2005, s. 2(f)]Information in chancery. Where a suit was instituted on behalf of the Crown or Government, or of those of whom it had the custody by virtue of its prerogative (such as idiots and lunatics), or whose rights are under its particular protection (such as the objects of a public charity), the matter of complaint was offered to the Court by way of information by the Attorney or Solicitor-General, and not by way of petition. When a suit immediately concerned the crown or government alone, the proceeding was pur...
Married women's property
Married women's property, At Common Law, a woman, by marrying, transferred the ownership of all her property, real and personal, present and future, to her husband absolutely, so that he might sell, pay his debts out of, give away, or dispose by will of it as he pleased, with these exceptions and modifications:-1) Her freehold estate became his to manage and take the profits of during the joint lives only. After his death, leaving her surviving, it passed to her absolutely; after her death, leaving him surviving, provided that it was an estate in possession and issue who could in her it had been born during the marriage, it passed to him as 'tenant by the curtesy (q.v.) of England,' during his life, and after his death to her heir-at-law.(2) Her leasehold estate, her personal estate in expectancy, and the debts owing to her and other 'choses in action,' became his absolutely if he did some act to appropriate or reduce them into possession during the marriage, or if he survived her. If ...
Infant
Infant [fr. infans, Lat., one who cannot speak], a person under twenty-one years of age, whose acts are in many cases either void or voidable. See AGE.At Common Law, the contracts of infants are divided into three classes: 1st. Those which are absolutely void; such as are positively injurious to the interests of the infant, and can only operate to his prejudice; as a surety-bond, or a release to his guardian.2nd. Those which are only voidable: such as are beneficial to him, which he may affirm or avoid when he comes of age; as a conveyance of lands, a promissory note, an account stated.3rd. Those which are binding ab initio and need on ratification: such as contracts for the public service, Articles of apprenticeship [see Green v. Thompson, (1899) 2 QB 1], executed contracts of marriage, representative acts as executor or trustee, contracts for necessaries. In an action brought for the price of goods, if the defendant pleads infancy, the onus is on the plaintiff to prove that the goods...
Code
Code, a collection or system of laws. The collection of laws and constitutions made by order of the Emperor Justinian is distinguished by the appellation of 'The Code' by way of eminence. See CIVIL LAW.The Code Napoleon, or Civil Code of France, pro-ceeding from the French Revolution, and the administration of Napoleon while First Consul, effected great changes in the laws of that country. Framed in the first instance by a commission of jurists appointed in 1800, this Code, after having passed both the tribunate and the legislative body, was promulgated in 1804 as the 'Code Civil des Francais.' When Napoleon became emperor, the name was changed to that of Code Napoleon, by which it is still often designated, though it is now styled by its original name of Code Civil. A Code de Procedure Civile, a Code de Commerce, Code d'Instruction Criminelle, and Code Penal were afterwards compiled and promulgated under Bonaparte's administration. To these was sub-sequently added a Code Forestier, or...
Partnership
Partnership, the relation which subsists between persons carrying on a business with a view to profit--so defined by s. 1, sub-s. 1, of the (English) Partnership Act, 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 39), a codifying Act of fifty s.s, 'to declare and amend the law of partnership,' which, in effect, transfers the law of the subject from the region of reported cases to that of the statute; Bovill's Act' (see that title) of 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 86), and a small part of the (English) Mercantile Law Amendment Act of 1856, being the only previous statutory enactments on the subject.Rules, which, however, subject to any agreement express or implied between the partners, are laid down by s. 24 for determining the interest of partners in the partnership property and their rights and duties in relation to the partnership. They provide, amongst other things, for equal shares in profits and equal contributions to losses; for indemnification of every partner by the firm in respect of payments properly made...
Award
Award [the primitive sense of ward is shown in the It. Guardare, Fr. regarder, to look. Hence, Prov. Fr. eswarder (answering in form to award), to inspect goods, and, incidentally, to pronounce them good and marketable; eswardenur, an inspector, Hecart. An award is accordingly, in the first place, the taking a matter into consideration and pronouncing judgment upon it; but in later times the designation has been transferred exclusively to the consequent judgment, Wedgw.], a document containing the determination of commissioners, under an Inclosure Act or other public statute; also an instrument embodying an arbitrator's decision on a matter submitted to him. It must follow the submission, but need not necessarily be in writing, unless so prescribed. An award is generally considered as published as soon as the arbitrator has done some act where by he becomes functus officio, and has declared, and can no longer change, his final mind. As soon as the award is executed, notice thereof shou...
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