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Civil Law

Civil Law, that rule of action which every particular nation, commonwealth, or city has established peculiarly for itself, more properly distinguished by the name of municipal law.The term 'civil law' is now chiefly applied to that which the Romans complied from the laws of nature and nations.The 'Roman Law'and the 'Civil Law' are convertible phrases, meaning the same system of jurisprudence; it is now frequently denominated 'the Roman Civil Law.'The collections of Roman Civil Law, before its reformation in the sixth century of the Christian era by the eastern Emperor Justinian, were the following:--(1) Leges Regi'. These laws were for the most part promulgated by Romulus, Numa Pompilius and Servius Tullius. To Romulus are ascribed the formation of a constitutional government, and the imposition of a fine, instead of death, for crimes; Numa Pompilius composed the laws relating to religion and divine worship, and abated the rigour of subsisting laws; and Servius Tullius, the sixth king,...


Voluntary winding up and winding up by the court

Voluntary winding up and winding up by the court, the expressions 'voluntary winding up' and 'winding up by the Court' have acquired a technical meaning in our Company and Insurance jurisprudence. Like the Co-operative Society Laws, the Companies Act and the Insurance Act also make a distinction between the cessation of business by a company and its voluntary winding up or winding up by an order of the Court. There is nothing unequivocal in s. 15(a) of the Act to show that Parliament intended to depart from the technical meaning of 'voluntary winding up' and 'winding up by the Court' and to bid a good-bye to the distinction in our Company and Insurance jurisprudence between mere cessation of business by a company and its voluntary winding up or winding up by an order of the Court. The phrase 'voluntarily wound up' in the first limb would mean the voluntary winding up of an insurance public company in accordance with s. 54 of the Insurance Act, The Neptune Assurance Co. Ltd.v. Union of ...


Deed

Deed [fr. d'd, Sax.; ded gaded, Goth.;daed, Dut.], a formal document on paper or parchment duly signed, sealed, and delivered. It is either an indenture (factum inter partes) needing an actual indentation [(English) Real Property Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 106), s. 5], reproduced by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 56 (2), made between two or more persons in different interests, or a deed-poll (charta de una parte) made by a single person or by two or more persons having similar interests. By the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 57, a deed may be described according to the nature of the transaction, e.g., 'this lease,' 'this mortgage,' etc., or as a 'deed' and not habitually by the word 'indenture.'The requisites of a deed are these:-(1) Sufficient parties and a proper subject of assurance.(2) It must be written, engrossed, printed, or lithographed, or partly written or engrossed, and partly printed or lithographed in any character or in any language, on paper, vellum, or parchm...


fabricate

fabricate -cat·ed -cat·ing vt : to make up (as testimony) with an intent to deceive vi : to make something up with an intent to deceive [there was a motive to "Gary Taylor"] ...


trust

trust 1 a : a fiduciary relationship in which one party holds legal title to another's property for the benefit of a party who holds equitable title to the property b : an entity resulting from the establishment of such a relationship see also beneficiary, cestui que trust, corpus declaration of trust at declaration, principal, settlor NOTE: Trusts developed out of the old English use. The traditional requirements of a trust are a named beneficiary and trustee (who may be the settlor), an identified res, or property, to be transferred to the trustee and constitute the principal of the trust, and delivery of the res to the trustee with the intent to create a trust. Not all relationships labeled as trusts have all of these characteristics, however. Trusts are often created for their advantageous tax treatment. accumulation trust : a trust in which principal and income are allowed to accumulate rather than being paid out NOTE: Accumulation trusts are disfavored and often restricted...


Goodwill

Goodwill, may be the whole advantage belonging to the firm, its reputation as also connection thereof. It, thus, means that every affirmative advantage as contrasted with negative advantage that has been acquired in carrying on the business whether connected with the premises of business or its name or style, everything connected with or carrying the benefit of the business, Ramnik Vallabhdas Madhwani v. Taraben Pravinlal Madhwani, (2004) 1 SCC 407: AIR 2004 SC 1084 (Partnership Act, 1932, s. 55).A business's reputation, patronage, and other intan-gible assets that are considered when apprising the business, esp. for purchase; The ability to earn income in excess of the an come that would be expected from the business veined as a mere collec-tion of assets, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 703.The advantage or benefit which is acquired by a business, beyond the mere value of the capital, stock, funds, or property employed therein, incon-sequence of the general public patronage and ...


Material resources

Material resources, 'Material resources' is enshrined in art. 39(b) are wide enough to cover not only natural or physical resources but also movable or immovable properties. The mere fact that the resources are material will make no difference in the concept of the word 'resources'. Black's Law Dictionary defined the word recourses thus: Money or any property that can be converted to meet needs; means of raising money or supplies; capabilities of raising wealth or to supply necessary wants. The mere fact that the resources are material will make no difference in the concept of the word recourse. In Stroud's Judicial Dictionary (Vol. 3) at page, 1634, the word material is defined thus: Materials tools or implements, to be used by such artificer in this trade or occupation, if such artificer be employed in mining; wooden props or 'sprags' though neither 'tools or implements' were 'materials' within these words. 'Material' includes a painter's bucket of distemper and brush. In Webster's T...


hold up

hold up : to make the victim of a holdup : rob at gunpoint ...


Calendar

Calendar [fr. Calendarium, Lat.; fr. Calend', the first day in the month in Roman reckoning], the order and series of months, together with the festivals and fasts, which make up the year. There are two modes of computing time-by the annual course of the sun, and by the periodical revolutions of the moon. The solar year consists of 365 days, 5 hours, 48', 45', 30'; the lunar year of 354 days, 3 hours, 48', 38', 12'. The Mohammedans adopt the lunar year. The solar year, calculated by the ancient Egyptians, has undergone various corrections and denominations.The chief of the calendars now in use are the three following: (1) The Julian, so called because Julius C'sar introduced into the Roman Empire the solar or Egyptian year, instead of the lunar year. The Russians and Greeks are the only nations that now use the Julian year. The common Julian year consists of 365 days, and the bissextile or leap-year (see that title), which returns every four years, of 366 days. This computation is faul...


Newly set up establishment

Newly set up establishment, the word 'establish-ment' is also found used in s. 3 and that section clearly indicates that an establishment may consist of different departments or undertakings and it is, therefore, not synonymous with 'undertaking' which has been defined, though in a different context, by this Court in Gymkhana Club Employees' Union v. Management, (1968) 1 SCR 742: AIR 1968 SC 554: (1967) 2 Lab LJ 720 to mean 'any business or any work or any project which one engages in or attempts as an enterprise analogous to business or trade'. The dictionary meaning of 'establishment' as given in Webster International Dictionary includes inter alia 'an institution or place of business, with its fixture and organised staff;as, large establishment, a manufacturing establishment'. 'Establishment' therefore means the whole trading, business or manufacturing apparatus with a separate identifiable existence. This apparatus which is used for the purpose of carrying on trade, business or und...


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