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Cast iron

Oxford Dictionary as 'a hard alloy of iron, carbon and silicon cast in a mould'. According to New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary of English Language, the word 'cast iron' means 'an iron-carbon alloy produced in a blast furnace.

Just

fair, reasonable and equitable, if it exceeds; it is termed as unfair, unreasonable, inequitable not just. In Law Lexicon, 5th Edn., by T.P. Mukherjee 'Just' is described: The term just' is derived from the latin word Justus.

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Property

as right to possess, use and dispose of it in accordance with law. In Ramanatha Aiyar's The Law Lexicon, Reprint Edn., 1987, at p. 1031, it is stated that the property is the most comprehensive of all

Warehouse

is properly speaking a building used for the purpose of storing goods imported at a reasonable rent, Law Lexicon of British India, 1940 Edn. See also Goa Urban Co-op. Bank Ltd. v. Noor Mohd. Sheikh Mussa, (2004)

lexical

Of or pertaining to a lexicon to lexicography or words according or conforming to a lexicon

Plan

ARCHITECT. In common acceptation mean 'a drawing or diagram made by projections on a horizontal plane'. The Law Lexicon attributes it to be a design or a sketch and is a draft or form of representation and

Interlocutory order

N.M.T. Joy Immaculate, (2004) 5 SCC, p. 729. Means 'pronounced and arising during legal procedure not final (New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary), see also State v. N.M.T. Joy Immaculate, (2004) 5 SCC, p. 729. Means 'provisional: interim: temporary:

Lawful possession

SCR 143. [T.N. Cinemas (Regulation) Rules, 1957, R. 13] The term 'lawful possession' as defined in the Law Lexicon, Reprint Edition, 1987, by P. Ramanatha Aiyar at p. 712 as: The term 'lawful possession' is not convertible

Leave

Edition, p. 1606 when used as a verb 'leave' means 'going away from, depart, sail'. Aiyar in Law Lexicon of British India at p. 715 observes as follows: Leave, as a noun, permission. As a verb, according

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