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Vest

sense, as indicated in the context in which it may have been used in a particular piece of legislation, Fruit and Vegetable Merchants Union v. Delhi Improvement Trust, AIR 1957 SC 344 (356): (1957) SCR 1. [U.P.

Until other provision is made

of the 1969 Act is a temporary and transitional provision which continues until other provision is made. The Legislature does not say until other provision is made because the Legislature is always free to legislate. The words

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

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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

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

Right

is used in Article 131 in this generic sense. For example, the State claims to be entitled to legislate exclusively on all particular matter on the ground that it falls within List II of the VII Schedule

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'

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

Incidental

which are procedural in nature but when it is used is relation to an agreement or the delegated legislation. It may mean something more, but the distinction between an incidental proceeding and a supplemental proceeding is evident,

Joint-tenancy

was favoured because it did not induce fractions of estates, and returning to early principles the (English) Land Legislation of 1925 has employed the tenure generally as the machinery by which legal estate may in such cases

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