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Judicial administration

Judicial administration, is an integrated function of the Judge and cannot suffer any diss. so far as maintenance of high standards of rectitude in judicial administration is concerned. The whole set up of a court is

Justices

management of such administrative business as the licensing of theatres, the levying of county rates, the establishment and maintenance of reformatory and industrial schools, etc., is transferred from the justices to county councils (see that title) by

Khorposh

Khorposh, is a maintenance grant conferring on the grantee a life estate. The grantee is called Khorposhdar who was rights of a

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Labourers' dwellings

Labourers' dwellings. Prior to 1890 the following five sets of enactments provided for the erection and maintenance of healthy 'labourers' dwellings,' the first three of the five being materially amended by the (English) Housing of

Illegal contract

1875; also contracts in unreasonable restraint of trade; general restraint of marriage; trading with the enemy; compounding felonies; maintenance or champerty, etc. A breach of promise of marriage by a married man pending divorce after decree nisi

Limited ownership

was fully satisfied in the case of Tulasamma to whom the property was made over in lieu of maintenance with full rights of enjoyment thereof minus the power of alienation. These are precisely the incidents of limited

Luminare

Luminare, a lamp or candle set burning on the altar of any church or chapel, for the maintenance whereof land and rent-charges were frequently given to parish churches, etc., Ken. Glos.

Magna Carta

the quantity of his offence.' A man's contenement is that which is absolutely necessary for his support and maintenance, as his tools and instruments of trade; and wainage is that which is necessary for the labourer and

Mahr (dower)

is prompt or deferred is clearly not a contemplated quantification of a sum of money in lieu of maintenance upon divorce, Fuzlunbi v. K. Khader Vali, AIR 1980 SC 1730: (1980) 4 SCC 125: (1980) 3 SCR

Manutenentia

Manutenentia, the old writ of maintenance, Reg. Brev. 182.

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