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Lost grant, is a mere presumption from long possession and exercise of user by easement with acquiescence of the owner, that there must have been originally a grant to the claimant, which had been 'lost', Braja Kishore Jagdev v. Lingraj Samantaray, (2000) 6 SCC 540.Lost grant, is a presumption which arises in cases of immemorial user. It has its origin from the long possession and exercise of right by user of an easement with the acquiescence of the owner that there must have been originally a grant to the claimant which had been lost, Konda Lakshmana Bapuji v. Govt. of Andhra Pradesh, (2002) 3 SCC 258.Lost grant, the doctrine has no application to the case of inhabitants of particular localities seeking to establish rights of user to some piece of land or water. Since the right originated in grant, its owners, whether original or by devolution, had to be such persons as were capable of being the recipients of a grant, and a right exercisable by the inhabitants of a village from time t...
Damaged and lost
Damaged and lost, The word 'damaged' in the collocation of the words 'lost or damaged' appearing in the proviso to sub-s. (2C) of s. 13 of the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act,1954 in relation to the part of the sample sent by the court to the Director of the Central Food Laboratory must, in the context, mean 'damaged due to any cause, including decomposition'. The word 'damaged' in the collocation of the words 'lost or damaged' occurring in sub-s. (2) of s. 11 and in the proviso to sub-s. (2C) of s. 13 must be construed in furtherance of the object and purpose of inserting these provisions. The whole purpose of depositing two parts of the sample with the Local (Health) Authority is that if one of the parts of the sample is lost or damaged for any reason whatever, the remaining part may still be available for analysis, Charanji Lal v. State of Punjab, (1984) 1 SCC 329: AIR 1984 SC 80 (85): (1984) 1 SCR 513. [Prevention of Food Adulteration Act (37 of 1954), ss. 11 (2) and 13 (2C) Pr...
Lost or not lost
Lost or not lost are words used in marine insurance policies in order to prevent the policy being void if the ship is lost at the time of the insurance provided that this fact is unknown to the insurer....
Lost Bill of Exchange, Cheque, or Promissory Note
Lost Bill of Exchange, Cheque, or Promissory Note. The (English) Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, s. 69, replacing the repealed 9 & 10 Wm. 3, c. 17, s. 3, enacts that if a bill of exchange, or cheque, or note, be lost before it is overdue, 'the person who was the holder of it may apply to the drawer to give him another bill (or cheque, or note) of the same tenor, giving security to the drawer, if required, to indemnify him against all persons whatever in case the bill (or cheque, or note) alleged to have been lost shall be found again'; and that 'if the drawer on request as aforesaid refuses to give such duplicate bill (or cheque, or note), he may be compelled to do so.' By s. 70 of the same Act, re-enacting 17 & 18 Vict. c. 125, s. 87, 'in any action or proceeding on' a bill (or cheque, or note), the Court may order that the loss of the instrument shall not be set up, provided an indemnity be given to the satisfaction of the Court against the claims of any other person upon the instrument...
lost volume seller
lost volume seller : a seller who sells to a buyer after a previous buyer has breached a contract for sale but who would have been able to make a sale to the second buyer even if the first buyer had not breached called also lost volume dealer ...
Lost document
Lost document. The ordinary rule is that a document is proved by the production of the original, but on proof that a document has been destroyed, or cannot be found after a proper search made, it may be proved by the 'secondary evidence' of a copy or by oral evidence of its contents. See Powell on Evidence; and as to the case of a lost will, see Woodward v. Goulstone, (1886) 11 App Cas 469. (Indian Evidence Act, 1872, s. 65)....
Exceptional grant
Exceptional grant, the exceptional grants are to be regulated by the same procedure as is applicable in the case of demands for grants subject to such adaptations as the speaker, Lok Sabha, may deem to be necessary or expedient, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha, 10th Edn., 2002, r. 215.In India, the Lok Sabha has the power to make an exceptional grant which does not form part the current service of any financial year, Constitution of India, Art. 166.In U.K. such grants are presented either as estimates or dealt with on a financial resolution. A grant to provide for rewards to individuals for distingui-shed public service, a special grant for presentation of a mail to a new commonwealth legislature etc. are examples of exceptional grant, the Office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth, Wilding and Philip Laundary, p. 255.Is the type of sanction of money by Parliament of cover expenses of an unusual character, Dictionary of Constitutional and Parliamen...
Cessate grants
Cessate grants, where a testator has directed that in a certain event some other person is to be substituted for his original executor, that other person becomes entitled upon the happening of the event to a grant in his own favour. Such a grant is known as a cessate or second grant, and differs from a grant de bonis non-administrators by being a re-grant of all the estate remaining, and by being a grant of probated and not of administration with the Will annexed, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 17, para 863, p. 455....
lost
lost 1 : not made use of, won, or claimed [ opportunity costs] 2 : unintentionally gone out of or missing from one's possession or control 3 : ruined or destroyed physically ;also : in an unknown physical condition or location [a ship] ...
lost property
lost property see property ...
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