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Home Dictionary Name: lawful force Page: 3Under any law for the time being in force
Under any law for the time being in force, the words refer to the applicability of decrees and orders should be determined by the provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure, AIR 1960 Bom 315 (317)....
equity
equity pl: -ties [Latin aequitat- aequitas fairness, justice, from aequus equal, fair] 1 a : justice according to fairness esp. as distinguished from mechanical application of rules [prompted by considerations of ] [comity between nations, and require it to be paid for "F. A. Magruder"] b : something that is equitable : an instance of equity [the inequities produced by the system are outnumbered by the equities] 2 a : a system of law originating in the English chancery and comprising a settled and formal body of substantive and procedural rules and doctrines that supplement, aid, or override common and statutory law [the judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and , arising under this Constitution "U.S. Constitution art. III"] see also chancery compare common law, law NOTE: The courts of equity arose in England from a need to provide relief for claims that did not conform to the writ system existing in the courts of law. Originally, the courts of equity exercised great ...
martial law
martial law 1 : the law applied in occupied territory by the military authority of the occupying power 2 : the law administered by military forces that is invoked by a government in an emergency when civilian law enforcement agencies are unable to maintain public order and safety compare military law ...
Passive trust
Passive trust, a trust as to which the trustee has no active duty to perform. Passive uses were resorted to before the Statute of Uses, in order to escape from the trammels and hardships of the Common Law, the permanent division of property into legal and equitable interests being clearly an invention to lessen the force of some pre-existing law. For similar reasons equitable interests were after the statute revived under the form of trusts. as such, they continued to flourish, notwithstanding the singular amelioration effected at a later period in the law of tenure, because the legal ownership was attended with some peculiar inconveniences. For, in order to guard against the forfeiture of a legal estate for life passive trusts, by settlements, were resorted to, and hence, trusts to preserve contingent remainders; and passive trusts were created in order to prevent dower.Where an active trust was created, without defining the quantity of the estate to be taken by the trustee, the court...
Obstruction of justice
Obstruction of justice, means interference with the orderly administration of law and justice, as by giving false information to or withholding evidence from a police officer or prosecutor, or by harming or intimidating a witness or juror. Obstruction of justice is a crime in most jurisdictions. Also termed obstructing justice; obstructing public justice, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1105.Means the goal, to proscribe every wilful act of corruption, intimidation or force which tends in any way to distort or impede the administration of law either civil or criminal -- has been very largely attained, partly by aid of legislation. And any punishable misdeed of such a nature which is not recognised as a distinct crime, is usually called 'obstruction of justice', or 'obstructing justice, -- a common -- law misdemeanor Criminal Law Rollin M. Perkins & Ronald N. Boyce, 552 (3rd Edn., 1982)....
military law
military law : law enforced by military rather than civil authority ;specif : law prescribed by statute for the government of the armed forces and accompanying civilian employees compare martial law ...
Bye-law street
Bye-law street, means a street constructed so as to comply with any bye-laws, regulations or other enactments in force in the district, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 21, 4th Edn., Para 747, p. 546....
Club-law
Club-law, regulation by force; the law of arms....
Appearance doctrine
Appearance doctrine, in the law of self-defence, the rule that a defendant's use of force is justified if the defendant reasonably believed it to be justified, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 95....
Illegally acquired properties
Illegally acquired properties, it means and includes 'any property acquired by such person, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, wholly or partly out of or by means of any income, earnings or assets derived or obtained from or attributable to any activity prohibited, by or under any law for the time being in force relating to any matter in respect of which Parliament has power to make laws', Attorney General for India v. Amratlal Prajivandas, AIR 1994 SC 2179 (2202): (1994) 5 SCC 54. [Smugglers and Foreign Exchange Manipula-tors (Forfeiture of Proprety) Act, 1976 (13 of 1976), s. 3 (1)(c)]...
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