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Retrospective law

occurring, before it came into force. Every statute which takes away or impairs vested rights acquired under existing laws, or creates a new obligation, imposes a new duty, or attaches a new disability in respect to transactions

Obstruction of justice

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 --

Building bye-law

regulations made under sub-section (1) of section 57 of the Delhi Development Act, 1957, relating to buildings, Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Act, 2006, sec. 2(a). … 188, sub-section (3) of section 189 and sub-section (1) of section 190 of Punjab Municipal Act, 1911, as in force in New Delhi or the regulations made under sub-section (1) of section 57 of the Delhi Development Act,

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military law

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

Executory

Pertaining to administration or putting the laws in force executive

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 … in his hands, to be applied and distributed in the same manner as personal estate. This law was in force until 1926, s. 45 of the (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925, having abolished special occupancy among all

Shelley's case, Rule in

shall take as would in the case of freehold land have answered that description under the general law in force before the commencement of the Act.

State

Constitution by the Adaptation of Laws Order, 1950, for the purpose of bringing the provisions of any law in force in the territory of India in accord with the provisions of the Constitution, Union of India v. Prem

The law relating to evacuee property

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

rule

vacated "People v. District Court, 797 P.2d 1259 (1990)"] b : a usually judicially promulgated regulation having the force of law that governs judicial practice or procedure [s of evidence] [s of appellate procedure] see also rule

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