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Acknowledgment of debt or liability

some claim or liability is still in existence, so as to prevent the operation of the Statute of Limitations. The precise form of acknowledgment necessary in any particular case depends on the terms of the relevant statute.

Fraud

the subject, be invariable. fraud is infinite: 'Crescit in orbe dolus'; and were the Courts to prescribe the limits of their equitable relief against fraud, or to define the species of evidence receivable in support of it,

Reasonable

in question'. Reasonableness of restriction depends upon nature of right claimed, object to be achieved, means employed and limitation imposed, M/s Kelvin Cinema v. State of Assam, AIR 1996 Gau 103; R.K. Garg v. Union of India,

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Instrument

engine. Includes every document by which any right or liability is, or purports to be, created, transferred, modified, limited, extended, suspended, extinguished or recorded. [Notaries Act, 1952 (53 of 1952), s. 2 (b)] Includes every document by

Just and equitable

Just and equitable, are a recognition of the fact that a limited company is more than a mere legal entity with a personality in law of its own: that there

Mercantile Law Amendment Act, 1856 (English)

within six years; (10) that absence beyond seas is no disability availing the plaintiff within the Statute of Limitations; and (11) that part payment by one co-contractor is not to prevent the bar by the Statute of

Notice

not in the absence of fraud affected by notice obtained through acting for another. Subject to the forgoing limitations on the doctrine and effect of notice, a purchaser of a legal estate or equitable interest in land

Nullum tempus aut locus occurit regi

the (English) 'Nullum Tempus Act', by which the right of the Crown to sue for land, etc., was limited to sixty years; and the (English) Crown Suits Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 62), amending that

Permanent post

Permanent post, 'permanent post' means a post carrying a definite rate of pay sanctioned without limit of time. Fundamental Rule 9 (30) define 'temporary post' as a post carrying a definite rate of pay

Possibility

thing which may or may not happen. It is either near, or ordinary, as where an estate is limited to one after the death of another; or remote, or extraordinary, as where it is limited to a

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