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cause
supervening cause compare concurrent cause and superseding cause in this entry 2 : superseding cause in this entry legal cause : proximate cause in this entry procuring cause : one (as a broker) that sets in motion … leasing of real estate [entitled to a commission as the procuring cause of the sale even though the listing had expired] pro·duc·ing cause : an efficient, exciting, or contributing cause (as an act, practice, or event) that
Land
Land, in its restrained sense, means soil, but in its legal acceptation it is a generic term, comprehend-ing every species of ground, soil or earth, whatso-ever, as meadows, pastures, … 1976 SC 1204: (1976) 3 SCC 404: (1976) 3 SCR 980. The word 'land' in Entry 49 of List 2 is wide enough to include all lands, whether agricultural or not, and it would be plainly unreasonable
Right
more strictly, the liberty of the doing or possessing something for the infringement of which there is a legal sanction. It is often confused in the popular mind with licence of the doing of something which his … claims to be entitled to legislate exclusively on all particular matter on the ground that it falls within List II of the VII Schedule to the Constitution and the Union of India questions this right of the
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Special jury
than 100l. in a town containing, according to the census then next preceding the preparation of the jury list, 20,000 inhabitants and upwards, or rated or assessed to the poor rate, or to the inhabited house duty, … county in England or Wales, or for the county of the City of London, and who shall be legally entitled to be called an esquire, or shall be a person of higher degree, or shall be a
Electoral roll
register, one has to be: (1) a resident in that Constituency, (2) should not be subject to any legal incapacity, (3) has to be either a Commonwealth citizen or a citizen of the Republic of Ireland, (4) … must be registered before election, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 28. Is known as 'voters' list in common parlance is the basic document on which the whole electoral process is founded, Election Law Practice
Sale of goods
that the words 'sale of goods' have to be construed not in the popular sense but in their legal sense and should be given the same meaning which they carry in the Sale of Goods Act, 1930. … Sale of goods, in Entry 48 of List II Sch. VII of the Government of India Act, 1935, 'sale of goods' has the same meaning which
Duel
Duel, in our ancient law, a legal combat between persons in a doubtful case for the trial of the truth, long since disused. In modern … the House of Lords in 1841; and Mr. Seton was killed by Lieutenant Hawkey in1845. For a full list of celebrated duels, see Haydn's Dictionary of Dates, tit. 'Duel.' It is a misdemeanour to challenge another to
Debenture
22. Any document which is a debenture in the common acceptance of the term or has the same legal effect, Halsbury's Laws of England 4(1), para 655, p. 302. … calls made but not paid; on a ship; on goodwill or patent or trade mark (see the full list in s. 79) will be void as against the liquidator and any creditor of the company unless the
Tithe Rent-Charge
redemption (supra), and see s. 15, also s. 29 as to corn rents and extraordinary tithe rent-charge. The legal incidents of annuities are st out in s. 13. Sec. 14 provides for remissions where the annuity is … Inland Revenue. Sec. 5 defines the particulars which owners are required to give to the Commission. All collecting lists and similar documents of tithe rent-charge are to be placed at the disposal of the Commission (s. 6).
Law
moral or social law. Generally speaking, jurisprudence is concerned only with positive law, and law in its ordinary legal sense means positive law. See LEX. It includes any enactment, proclamation Regulation, rule, notification or other instrument, having, … scheme, notification, bye-law or any other instrument having the force of law and relates to matters enumerated in List I and List III in the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution', Sachindra Mohan Nandy v. State of West
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