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Gavelkind

Gavelkind. A mode or rule of descent by custom abolished by the Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 45(1)(a), in...

Housing of the working classes. The Housing Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5, and 1 Edw. 8, c. 51), replaces with...

Incorporation, the formation of a legal body, with the quality of perpetual existence and succession, except as limited by the...

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929: 51 Cr LJ 1514. Public order, in the State list must be interpreted to include public safety in its relation

Mortmain [fr. mort, Fr., dead, and main hand], such a state of possession of land as makes it inalienable; whence...

Newspaper, means any printed periodical work containing public news or comments on public news and includes such other class of...

Coparceners or parceners. The name given to persons who until 1926 inherited an inheritable estate by virtue of descents from...

Resignation, implies that the party resigning has been elected to the office which he resigns: a man cannot 'resign' that...

Seisina facit stipitem. Before the Inheritance Act 1833, the old rule of intestate succession to real estate was that descent...

Thoroughfare, for a place to be thoroughfare there must be an unobstructed transit, Anantarajani Mohanty v. State of Orissa, AIR...

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