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Joint-tenancy

early principles the (English) Land Legislation of 1925 has employed the tenure generally as the machinery by which legal estate may in such cases always be in some person, called the estate owner, who is competent to

Judgment

particular predicate and a particular subject. So, in law, it is the affirmation by the law of the legal consequences attending a proved or admitted state of facts. It is always a declaration that a liability, recognised

Husband and wife

his authority, express or implied. If any Articles are supplied to the wife which are not necessaries, the legal presumption is that the husband did not assent to his wife's contract. In the case of necessaries, where

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Adverse possession

maintained against right when commencement and is maintained against right when the commencement and continuance of possession is legal and proper, referable to a contract, it cannot be adverse. Hence, the purchaser who got into possession of

Real representative

other person had a right to take by survivorship, so that one and the same person had the legal title to both the real estate and the personal estate of the deceased. These provisions, and s. 30

Maritime lien

is well defined to mean a claim or privilege upon a thing to be carried into effect by legal process, that process to be a proceeding in rem ...... This claim or privilege travels with the thing

Workmen's Compensation Act

In s. 5 (1) 'employer' is defined as including 'any body of persons corporate or unincorporate and the legal personal representative of a deceased employer, and where the services of a workman are temporarily lent or let

Public policy

community, Murlidhar v. State, AIR 1974 SC 1924. Public policy, is always an unsafe and treacherous ground for legal decision, Richardson v. Mellish, (1824) 2 Bing 229: 130 ER 294; SB Fraser & Co. v. Bombay Ice

Account or Accompt

Sheets apply to companies registered outside Great Britain and established there; s. 347 ibid. As to the ancient action of account at Common Law, see. 3 Steph. Com., 9th ed. 451, and Bac. Ab. 'Account.' Prior to

Arrest

found committing an offence under the (English) Larceny Act, 1916 (except against s. 31), or against the (English) Malicious Damage Act, 1861, may be arrested without a warrant. There is a similar provision in respect of s. … are either in civil or (see APPREHENSION) criminal cases; civil arrests must be affected, in order to be legal, by virtue of a precept or writ issue out of some Court. The law of civil arrest (see

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