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Interim orders/interlocutory orders
other of the following categories: (i) Orders which finally decide a question or issue in controversy in the main case. (ii) Orders which finally decide an issue which materially and directly affects the final decision in the
Meeting
Meeting, an assembly of persons whose consent is required for anything to decide, by a proper majority of votes, whether or not that thing shall be done; e.g., the meeting of the town council under s....
Partnership
of business of the partnership where every partner may have access to them. The Act of 1890 is mainly declaratory. The chief amendment is that of the 23rd s., by which the judgment creditor of a partner,
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Power system
supply of electricity and includes one or more of the following, namely:- (a) generating stations; (b) transmissions or main transmission lines; (c) sub-stations; (d) tie-lines; (e) load despatch activities; (f) mains or distribution mains; (g) electric supply-lines;
Sea
Sea. See FOUR SEAS. The main or high seas are part of the realm of England, for thereon the Courts of Admiralty have jurisdiction,
Service line
which electricity is, or is intended to be, supplied, (a) to a single consumer either from a distributing main or immediately from the Distribution Licensee's premises; or (b) from a distributing main to a group of consumers
dissent
dissent 1 : to withhold assent or approval [unfair squeezeout transactions-the kind to which public shareholders seem most likely to "R. C. Clark"] see also appraisal NOTE: A shareholder who dissents from a proposed transaction may...
Testament
to the modes of making a testament according to the Civil Law, see Sand. Just.; Cumn. C.L. 117; Maine's Anc. Law. The word 'testament' is derived form 'testatio mentis', it testifies the determination of the mind, Uma
Responsa prudentium
the law), the opinions and decisions of learned lawyers, forming part of the Roman laws, Cum. C.L. 6; Maine's Anc. Law, Ch. II
Ancient law
the seller is re-established in the rights of which he had vainly attempted to divest himself. Henry S. Maine, Ancient Law, 225-26 (17th Edn. 1901). Ancient law, is the law of antiquity, considered esp. either from an
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