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Owner (Estate Owner)

an infant is not capable of being an estate owner.' Estate owners for the purposes of the land legislation of 1925 include an owner of full age (including a corporation) who is the person designated by the

Pith and substance

Lynn., (1937) AC 863 (PC). When there is a conflict between two entries in the legislative lists, and legislation be reference to one entry would be competent but not by reference to the other, the doctrine of

Prior or previous

Prior or previous, may be implied if the contextual situation or the object and design of the legislation demands it, Graphite India Ltd. v. Durgapur Projects Ltd., (1999) 7 SCC 645. The word 'prior' or 'previous'

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Reasonable classification

Reasonable classification, it is now well established that while Article 14 forbids class legislation, it does not forbid reasonable classification for the purposes of legislation. The classification may be founded on different

Regulation

colour from the context in which it is used having regard to the purpose and object of the legislation, K. Ramanathan v. State of Tamil Nadu, AIR 1985 SC 660 (669): (1985) 2 SCC 116: (1985) 2

Repeal

cited in Mew's Digest, vol. 19, p. 842, tit. 'Statute.' A repeal may be brought about by repugnant legislation, without even any reference to the Act intended to be repealed, for once legislative competence to effect a

Settled land

Act of 1925, however contains some innovations which bring it into line with the rest of the land legislation of 1925, so that a fee-simple in possession or a term of years absolute (which are the only

National insurance

Great War, this branch of the law has been and continues to be the subject of much amending legislation. Until the law takes a more permanent and enduring form, the only guide to the law existing at

Marriage

one at least of which is British subject outside England, except as altered by special colonial or Indian legislation, not merely prohibitory and negative, but creating a nullity by express words [Catterall v. Sweetman, (1845) 4 N.C.

Legitimation per subsequens matrimonium

law before 1927 an article by Sir Dennis Fitzpatrick, K.C.S.I., in the Journal of the Society of Comparative Legislation, No. 13, New Series (1904). In the British Colonies such as Ceylon, Canada, and South Africa, where the

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