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Legal representative, a 'legal representative' ordinarily means a person who in law represents the estate of a deceased person or a person on whom the estate devolves on the death of an individual, Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation v. Ramanbhai Prabhat Bhai, AIR 1987 SC 1690 (1699): (1987) 3 SCC 234: (1987) 3 SCR 404. [Motor Vehicles Act, (4 of 1939), s. 92A]The definition of 'legal representatives' includes heirs as well as persons who represent the estate even without title either as executors or administrators in possession of the estate of the deceased, Custodian of Branches of BANCO National Ultramarino v. Nalini Bai Naique, AIR 1989 SC 1589 (1591): (1989) Supp 2 SCC 275: (1989) 2 SCR 810.It has the meaning assigned to it in clause (11) of section 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908. [Wealth-tax Act, 1957, s. 2 (lb)]It means a person who in law represents the estate of a deceased person, and includes any person who intermeddles with the estate of the deceased person, and...
legal representative
legal representative : one who represents or stands in the place of another under authority recognized by law esp. with respect to the other's property or interests: as a : personal representative b : an agent having legal status ;esp : one acting under a power of attorney ...
Liability of legal representative signing
Liability of legal representative signing, a legal representative of a deceased person who signs his name to a promissory note, bill of exchange or cheque is liable personally thereon unless he expressly limits his liability to the extent of the assets received by him as such. (Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (26 of 1881), s. 29)...
Employer
Employer, means (i) a company; (ii) a firm; (iii) an association of persons or a body of individuals, whether incorporated or not, but excluding any fund or trust or institution eligible for exemption under clause (23C) of section 10 or registered under section 12AA; (iv) a local authority; and (v) every artificial judicial person, not falling within any of the preceding sub-clauses. [Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), s. 115W(a)]Employer, means:A person who controls and direct a worker under an express or implied contract of hire and who pays the workers salary or wages, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.(a) in relation to contract labour, the principal employer, and(b) in relation to other labour, the person who has the ultimate control over the affairs of any establishment or who has, by reason of his advancing money, supplying goods or otherwise, a substantial interest in the control of the affairs of any establishment, and includes any other person to whom the affairs of the establi...
Distribution, Statute of
Distribution, Statute of (22 & 23 Car. 2, c. 10), now only applied to intestacies prior to 1926, repealed by (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925 (see WIDOW), explained by the Statute of Frauds, 29 Car. 2, c. 3, enacts that the surplusage of intestates' personal estate (except of femes covert, the administration and enjoyment of whose estates belonged, at Common Law, to their husbands-but see MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY) shall, after the expiration of one year from the death of the intestate, be distributed in the following manner: one-third shall go to the widow of the intestate, and the residue in equal proportions to his children, or, if dead, to their representatives, that is, their lineal descendants; if there be no children or legal representative subsisting ,then a moiety shall go to the widow, and a moiety to the next of kindred in equal degree, and their representatives; if no widow, the whole shall go to the children; if neither widow nor children, the whole shall be di...
Assignee, or Assign
Assignee, or Assign, a person appointed by another to do any act or perform any business; also a person who takes some right, title, or interest in things by an assignment from an assignor. They are divided into: (1) assignees by deed, as when a lessee of a term assigns it to another; and (2) assignees by law, as when property devolves upon an executor merely in virtue of his appointment as such. Assignees in bankruptcy (now called trustees, see BANKRUPTCY) are those persons in whom the property of a bankrupt vests by virtue of their appointment. (3) includes an assignee of the assignee and the legal representative of a deceased assignee and references to the assignee of any person include references to the assignee of the legal representative or assignee of that person. [Patents Act, 1970 (39 of 1970), s. 2 (1) (ab)]...
Attorney-General
Attorney-General, a great officer of state appointed by letters-patent, and the legal representative of the Crown in the Supreme Court. He is also ex-officio head of the bar for the time being. He exhibits informations, prosecutes for the Crown in criminal matters and in revenue causes, and used to grant fiats for writs of error until they were abolished by s. 20 of the (English) Criminal Appeal Act, 1907, His fiat or consent is required before certain proceedings or prosecutions can be commenced (see, e.g., (English) Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act, 1889, and Prevention of Corruption Act, 1906). In many cases also (see e.g., (English) Lunacy Act, 1890, s. 325; (English) Public Health Act, 1936, s. 298; (English) Public Health (Officers) Act, 1884; (English) Public Health (Members and Officers) Act, 1885; Official Secrets Act, 1911, s. 8), his consent is necessary before penalties can be recovered. His fiat is necessary for certain appeals to the House of Lords. See (English) Appel...
Notice to quit
Notice to quit. Where there is a tenancy from year to year subsisting, it can only be put an end to by notice to quit, which may be given by either party, and must be given one half-year previously to the expiration of the current year of tenancy, so as to expire at the same period of the year in which the tenant entered upon the premises. This rule is to be invariably followed in all cases, except where there is some special agreement between the parties to a different effect, or where a particular local custom intervenes, or where the (English) Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923, applies, in which case, by s. 25 of that Act, a notice must be given to terminate the tenancy twelve months from the end of the then current year of the tenancy.Where the term of a lease is to end on a precise day, there is no occasion for a notice to quit previously to bringing an action of ejectment because both parties are equally apprised of the termination of the term. If a tenant continue in possession by...
attorney
attorney pl: -neys [Anglo-French atorné legal representative, from past participle of atorner to designate, appoint, from Old French, to prepare, arrange see attorn ] : a person authorized to act on another's behalf ;esp : lawyer see also attorney-in-fact compare counsel ...
Employed person
Employed person, includes the legal representative of a deceased employed person. [Payment of Wages Act, 1936 (4 of 1936), s. 2 (i)]...
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