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Act of Parliament

Sabha, April, 2002. Means an action; a thing done or established; a written law formally passed by the legislative power of a State; a Bill enacted by the legislature into a law, as distinguished from a bill … Parliament Act, 1911, made a fundamental alteration in the powers previously possessed by the House of Lords in relation to the passing of Acts of Parliament. Its provisions are briefly as follows:--(1) If a money bill sent

Executive

Executive, that branch of the government which puts the laws into execution, as distinguished from the legislative and judicial branches. The body that deliberates and enacts laws is legislative; the body that judges and applies … the enforcement of them, is executive. The executive authority, in all monar-chies, is vested in the sovereign. In relation to a trade union, means the body, by whatever name called, to which the management of the affairs

Abstract of title

notice (qu. vide) of any estate, trust, incumbrance, or interest affecting it took the property subject thereto, but legislation and the practice of conveyancers have gradually lessened the inconvenience of this doctrine: see LEGAL ESTATE; PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES; … title.As to fradulent concealment, see s. 183 of the (English) Law of Properties Act, 1925. A simple abstract relating to one estate only should set forth chronologically a clear statement of the material parts of the deeds,

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Condition of service

service of public servants. It is also well settled that it is not possible by means of any legislative provision or rule to take away the guarantee provided by Article 311 (1) of the Constitution which lays … of service' includes everything from the stage of appointment to the stage of termination of service and also relates to matters pertaining to disciplinary action, Lilly Kurian v. Sr. Lewina, (1979) 2 SCC 124: AIR 1979 SC

Presumption of fact

process of reasoning and reaches a logical conclusion as the most probable position. The above principle has gained legislative recognition in India when s. 114 is incorporated in the Evidence Act. It empowers the court to presume … that process the court shall have regard to the common course of natural events, human conduct etc. in relation to the facts of the case, State of West Bengal v. Mir Mohd. Omar, (2000) 8 SCC 382

Priority

not, will not be affected by equities which can be overreached under that section, or otherwise under the legislation of 1925. (c) Registered land, according to date of registration [(English) Land Registration Act, 1925, s. 29], and … (English) Law of Property Amendment Act, 1926, s. 4, and the Land Registration Act, 1925, s. 144, respectively, relating to PRIORITY NOTICES. In regard to property locally situate in Middlesex and Yorkshire, before 1926 priorities in Yorkshire

Doctrine of basic structure

concerned. But, in every case where reliance is placed upon it, in the course of an attack upon legislation, whether ordinary or constituent (in the sense that it is an amendment of the Constitution), what is put … of basic structure, the doctrine of 'a basic structure' was nothing more than a set of obvious inferences relating to the intents of the Constitution-makers arrived at by applying the established canons of construction rather broadly, as

Shall

modern statutes the word shall is used as an imperative only and not as a future, Thring: Practical Legislation, p. 83. Shall, or may is not conclusive on the question whether the particular requirement of law is … defeated by noncompliance with it, it has to be regarded as mandatory. But when a provision of law relates to the performance of any public duty and the invalidation of any act done in disregard of that

agency

truly agencies as defined in sense 2. 4 : a department or other unit of government created by legislation to administer the law in a particular area of public concern called also administrative agency see also enabling … achieved [death by criminal "W. R. LaFave and A. W. Scott, Jr."] 2 a : a consensual fiduciary relationship in which one party acts on behalf of and under the control of another in dealing with third

Government

R.S. Nayak v. A.R. Antulay, AIR 1984 SC 684: (1984) 2 SCC 183: (1984) 2 SCR 495. Includes Legislative, Executive and Judiciary, Pashupati Nath Sukul v. Nem Chandra Jain, AIR 1984 SC 399 (405): (1984) 2 SCC … the machinery by which foreign prover is exercised, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 703. It means, in relation to any major port, the Central Government and, in relation to any other port, the State Government. [Dock

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