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Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland, that part of Ireland other than the Irish Free State. By the Government of Ireland Act, 1926, s. 1, Northern Ireland consists of six counties: Antrim, Armagh; Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry, and Tyrone, including boroughs of Belfast ad Londonderry, with (1) a representation of 13 members (including one from the Queen's University of Belfast) in the Parliament of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland (see IMPERIAL Parliament), and (2) a Parliament of Northern Ireland, consisting of the King, a Senate and a House of Commons. The supreme authority of the Imperial Parliament is preserved. The Royal Assent is given to Bills by the Governor of Northern Ireland. The Senate consists of 24 members, 22 elected by the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, and 2 (as ex-officio members), the Lord Mayor of Belfast and the Mayor of Londonderry. The House of Commons consists of 52 members. Certain legislative powers are reserved for the Imperial Parliament; see ss. 4 et seq. Of the A...


private

private 1 a : intended for or restricted to the use of a particular person or group or class of persons : not available to the public [a park] b : not related to, controlled by, or deriving from the state [a school] 2 a : owned by or concerning an individual person or entity [ land] b : not having shares that can be freely traded on the open market [a company] 3 : affecting the interests of a particular person, class or group of persons, or locality [ legislation] [ rights] 4 a : not invested with or engaged in public office or employment [a citizen] b : not related to or dependent on an official position [ correspondence] 5 : not known publicly or carried on in public ;esp : intended only for the persons involved 6 : made under private signature [a instrument] ...


antitrust

antitrust : of, relating to, or being legislation against or opposition to business trusts or combinations ;specif : consisting of laws to protect trade and commerce from unlawful restraints and monopolies or unfair business practices see also Clayton Antitrust Act and Sherman Antitrust Act in the Important Laws section ...


international law

international law : a body of laws, rules, or legal principles that are based on custom, treaties, or legislation and that control or affect the rights and duties of nations in relation to each other compare internal law ...


Affect

Affect, The word 'affect' is a word of wide import and in the context in which it occurs, it must be construed to mean 'touch' or 'relate to' or 'concern'. The legislative intent, as manifest in the first part of the section, clearly is that nothing contained in the Act shall touch or apply to an adoption made prior to the commencement of the Act, Daniraiji Vrajlalji, Junagadh v. Vahuji Maharaj Shri Chandraprabha, (1975) 3 SCR 32: (1975) 1 SCC 612: AIR 1975 SC 784 (788). [Hindu Adoptions and Maintenances Act (78 of 1956) s. 30]...


legislative

legislative 1 a : having the power or performing the function of legislating b : belonging to the branch of government that is charged with such powers as making laws, levying and collecting taxes, and making financial appropriations compare administrative, executive, judicial 2 a : of or relating to a legislature [ committees] b : composed of members of a legislature [ caucus] c : created or effectuated by a legislature esp. as distinguished from an executive or judicial body d : designed to assist a legislature or its members [a research agency] 3 : of, concerned with, or created by legislation leg·is·la·tive·ly adv ...


Related person

Related person, on a proper interpretation of the definition of 'related person' in sub-s. (4)(c) of s. 4, the words 'a relative and a distributor of the assessee' do not refer to any distributor but they are limited only to a distributor who is a relative of the assessee within the meaning of the Companies Act, 1956. So read, the definition of 'related person' is not unduly wide and does not suffer from any constitutional infirmity on ground of violation of Articles 14 and 19. It is within the legislative competence of Parliament, Union of India v. Bombay Tyre International Ltd., AIR 1984 SC 420: (1984) 1 SCC 467: (1984) 1 SCR 347.The definition of 'related person' shows that when an assessee is so closely associated with another person, directly or indirectly, in the business, then it could be said that they are 'related persons'. The holding company and subsidiary company have got special significance. There must be mutuality of interest between the two persons, Flash Laboratories L...


Pith and substance

Pith and substance, as per this doctrine, the question whether an impugned law would relate to the subject-matter within jurisdiction of one legislature or the other is decided by the substance or the real scope of the impugned law and the subject-matter to which it really relates, and not by the label the Legislature has given to it, Commentary on the Constitution of India, Durga Das Basu, 6th Edn., Vol. C, p. 43; State of Rajasthan v. V.G. Chowla, AIR 1959 SC 544; Sajjan Singh v. State of Rajasthan, AIR 1985 SC 845.Pith and Substance, is a doctrine relating to the interpretation of statutes; evolved by the Privy Council, to solve the problem of competitive legislatures, Gallaghar v. Lynm, (1937) AC 863; Prafulla Kumar v. Bank of Commerce, AIR 1947 SC 28.Pith and substance, once a law 'in pith and substance' falls within a legislative entry, an incidental encroachment on an entry in another list does not affect its validity, Gallagher v. Lynn., (1937) AC 863 (PC).When there is a confl...


Magna Carta

Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III and Edward I later confirmed. It is generally regarded as one of the great common-law documents and as the foundation of constitution liberties. The other three great charters of English Liberty are the Petition of Right (3 Car. (1628)), the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2 (1679)), and the Bill of Rights (1 Will. SM. (1689)). Also spelled Magna charta, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 963.This Great Charter is based substantially upon the Saxon Common Law, which flourished in this kingdom until the Normaninvasion consolidated the system of feudality, still the great characteristic of the principles of real property. The barons assembled at St.Edmund's Bury, in Suffolk, in the later part of the year 1214, and there solemnly swore upon the high alter to withdraw their allegiance from the Crown, and openly rebel, unless King John confirmed by a formal charter the ancient li...


Abstract of title

Abstract of title. A concise statement, usually prepared for a mortgagee or purchaser of real property, summarising the history of a piece of land including all conveyances interests, lines & encumbrances that reflect title to property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., an epitome of the evidence of title to property or power to deal with it.Every purchaser of land or real estate has an implied right to have an abstract of title delivered to him within a reasonable time, Compton v. Bagley, (1892) 1 Ch 313. As to registered land, see the Land Registration Act, 1925, s. 110, and Brickdale and Stewart-Wallace on the Land Registration Act, 1925.An abstract is said to be perfect if it deduces the title from the date fixed by the contract or by statute for its commencement and discloses every incumbrance affecting it, by setting out the material parts of all deeds, wills and other documents, and stating the facts on which it depends: fc. 1 Pres. 42, 207. The statutory period is thirty years,...



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