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Mistake
QBD 308]. A contract is not voidable because it was caused by a mistake as to any law in force in India; but a mistake as to a law in force in India has the same effect as
Local authority
Industrial Township, a Cantonment Board, a Village Panchayat Constituted or Continued under any law for the time being in force. [Maharashtra Non-Biodegradable Garbage (Control) Act, 2006, s. 2(e)] Means a municipal corporation, Nagar Panchayat, Municipal Council, District Panchayat,
Competent authority
country for promoting the safety of civil aviation, Air Navigation Order 1989, SI 1989/2004, Art. 106(1) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, para 1347, p. 665. Means any authority authorised by the State Government by notification … 1966 (32 of 1966), s. 2 (c)] Means any authority competent under any law for the time being in force to register any company, firm or other body of persons or any trademark or design or to grant
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Act of God
of years preventive action can be taken, Lord Westbury defined the act of God (damnum fatale in Scotch Laws) as an occurrence which no human foresight can provide against and of which human prudence is not bound … Roadways Ltd. v. Birla Yamaha Ltd., (2000) 4 SCC 91. Means an overwhelming, unpreventable event caused exclusively by forces of nature, such as an earthquake, flood, or tornado. The definition has been statutorily broadened to include all
Frauds, Statute of
c. 23); and Judicature Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 49), s. 162. There now remain in force s. 4 (amended), ss. 10, 11 and 23 and 24 (though repealed as to deaths occurring after 1925),
Possession is nine points of the law
law. The effect of the statute is this, that when a man is in possession he may use force to keep out a trespasser; but if a trespasser has gained possession, the rightful owner cannot use force
Enforce
as to enforce laws or rules; to control; to execute with vigor; to put in execution; to put in force: also to exact, or to obtain authoritatively. The word is used in a multiplicity of ways and is
legitime
civil law of Louisiana : the portion (as one-fourth) of a testate succession that is reserved for a forced heir called also forced portion compare disposable portion, falcidian portion, marital portion NOTE: The fraction used to calculate
Fresh force
Matched in: Term Fresh force
Collision of ships
a collision between two ships, if both ships were found to have been in fault, the rules hitherto in force in the Court of Admiralty, so far as they had been at variance with the rules in force
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