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Home Dictionary Name: living will Page: 2 Page 2 of about 77 results (0.004 seconds)Deposit of wills
Deposit of wills of living persons at the Principal Probate Registry, Somerset House. See WILLS....
failure of issue
failure of issue :lack of living issue (as of a person named to take under a will) at death definite failure of issue : a failure of issue determined at a specific time set in a will (as at the death of a named taker) indefinite failure of issue : a failure of issue for which no time period is fixed in a will ...
Presumption of life or death
Presumption of life or death. Where a person is once shown to have been living, the law will in general presume that he is still alive, unless after a lapse of time considerably exceeding the ordinary duration of human life; but if there be evidence of his continued unexplained absence from home and of the non-receipt of intelligence concerning him for a period of seven years, the presumption of life ceases and he is presumed to be dead at the end of the seven yeas. But the law raises no presumption as to the time of his death and, therefore, if any one has to establish the precise time during those seven years at which such person died, he must do so by evidence, see Doe v. Nepean, (1833) B&Ad 86; Nepean v. Doe, (1837) 2 M&W 894; Re Rhodes, (1887) 36 Ch D 586. See also 18 & 19 Car. 2, c. 11, by which the person on whose life a lease for lives depends is accounted dead if not proved alive after an absence of seven years, and the lessee may be ejected, with the proviso, however, that if...
Induction
Induction [fr. inductio, Lat., a leading into], the giving a parson possession of his church.A clerk is not complete incumbent until induction, which is performed by a mandate from the bishop to the archdeacon, or if the church be exempt from arch diaconal jurisdiction, to the chancellor or commissary, or if it be a peculiar, to the dean or judge, who usually issues a precept to another clergyman to perform it for him.The person who inducts takes the hand of the clerk, and lays it on the ring, key, or latch of the church-door, or wall of the church, or delivers a clod, turf, or twig of the glebe, and gives corporal possession of the church, saying:--By virtue of this mandate I induct you into the real, actual, and corporal possession of the church of [Stow], with all rights, profits, and appurtenances thereto belonging.'Induction is the investiture of the temporal part of the benefice or the corporal seisin, as institution (see INSTITUTION), which may take place anywhere, whereas induc...
Ill health
Ill health, any disorder in health which incapacitates an individual from discharging the duties en-trusted to him or affects his work adversely or comes in the way of his normal and effective functioning can be covered by the said phrase. The phrase has also to be construed from the point of view of the consumers of the concerned products and services. If on account of a workman's disease or incapacity or debility in functioning, the resultant product or the service is likely to be affected in any way or to become a risk to the health, life or property of the consumer, the disease or incapacity has to be categorised as ill-health for the purpose of the said sub-clause. Otherwise, the purpose of production for which the services of the workman are engaged will be frustrated and worse still in cases such as the present one they will endanger the lives and the property of the consumers. The phrase would include cases of drivers who have developed a defective or sub-normal vision or eyesi...
Charitable uses and trusts
Charitable uses and trusts. 9 Geo. 2, c. 26, commonly called 'The Mortmain Act,' 1735, after reciting that ifts or alienations of land in mortmain (see MORTMAIN) were prohibited by Magna Charta and other whole-some laws as prejudicial to the common utility, and that such public mischief had greatly increased by many large and improvident dispositions, made by languishing or dying persons to charitable uses, to take place after their deaths to the disherison of their lawful heirs, enacted that no lands or other hereditaments whatsoever, nor money, or personal estate to be laid out in land should be given to any person or bodies corporate, or charged by any person in trust, for any charitable uses, unless such gift, etc., should be made by deed (thus entirely excluding gifts by will) executed twelve months before the death of the donor and be enrolled in the court of Chancery within six calendar months after execution, and be without any power of revocation for the benefit of the donor.T...
Conjugal rights
Conjugal rights, the right which husband and wife have to each other's society. The suit for restitution of conjugal rights is a matrimonial suit, cognizable in the Divorce court, which is brought whenever either the husband or wife is guilty of the injury of subtraction, or lives separate from the other without any sufficient reason; in which case the court will decree restitution of conjugal rights (English) (Judicature Act, 1925, s. 186), but will not enforce it by attachment, substituting however for attachment, if the wife be the petitioner, an order for periodical payments by the husband to the wife, s. 187.Conjugal rights cannot be enforced by the act of either party, as was held by the court of Appeal in the case of a husband who had seized and detained his wife by force, in Reg. v. Jackson, (1891) 1 QB 671.Connected person, in relation to any other person, includes any person who is or was that other person's banker, Financial Services Act, 1986, s. 105(9)(a) Halsbury's Laws o...
lifeline
The anem given to one of the creases on the palm its length is said by palmists to indicate how long one will live...
Cheerful
Having or showing good spirits or joy cheering cheery contented happy joyful lively animated willing...
Hut
Hut, 'hut' means any building, which is constructed principally of wood, bamboo, mud, leaves, grass or thatch and includes any temporary structure of whatever size or any small building of whatever material made. [Manipur Municipalities Act, 1994 (43 of 1994), s. 2(24)]The expression 'hut' cannot be restricted only to huts or cottages intended to be lived in. It will also take in any shed, hut or other crude or third class construction consisting of an enclosure made of mud or by poles supporting a tin or abestos roof that can be put to use for any purpose - residential or non-residential, in the same manner as any other first class construction. The kaichalai is a structure which falls within the purview of the definition. Surya Kumar Govindji v. Krishnammal, (1990) 4 SCC 343 (349). [T.N. Buildings (Lease and Rent Control) Act, 1960 (18 of 1960), s. 2(2)]Means any building, no material portion of which above the plinth level is constructed of masonry or of squared timber framing or of...
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