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Home Dictionary Name: mandatory injunction Page: 5Registration of title of land
Registration of title of land. The (English) Land Registration Act, 1925 (15 Geo. 5, c. 21), repeals and re-enacts the (English) Land Transfer Acts, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 87) and 1897 (60 & 61 Vict. c. 65), with amendments in keeping with innovations which were introduced by the property laws of 1925. Its object is to simplify the indicia of land ownership and transfer by mere inscription and transcription in a register. The advantages which are claimed for the system are (a) purchasers for value of an absolute or good leasehold title are absolved from any inquiry into the title other than it is shown to be on the register; (b) certain equitable claims which would be binding on the land under the general law and cannot be removed or over-reached without onerous formalities do not affect such purchasers; (c) the method of conveyance or charge is simple; (d) subject to the statutory provisions, registration guarantees the title to purchasers for value and mortgagees. It should be observ...
Liability in respect of an actionable wrong
Liability in respect of an actionable wrong, the words 'liability in respect of an actionable wrong' are apt to cover the liability to be restrained by injunction from completing what on the plaintiffs case was an illegal or unauthorised act already commenced, State of Tripura v. Province of East Bengal, AIR 1951 SC 23 (27): (1951) 29 ITR 132....
Libel
Libel [fr. libellus, Lat.; libelle, Fr.]. False defamatory words, if written and published, constitute a libel: Odgers on libel, p. 1. 'Everything printed or written, which reflects on the character of another, and is published without lawful justification or excuse, is a libel whatever the intention may have been', O'Brien v. Clement, (1846) 15 M & W 435, per Parke, B. A statement in a talking film is a libel and not merely a slander, Yossopoff v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture Corporation, 78 Sol Jo 617. As to publication by dictation, etc., to a typist, see Osborn v. Boulter & Son, (1930) 2 KB 226. All contumelious matter that tends to degrade a man in the opinion of his neighbours, or to make him ridiculous, will amount (when conveyed in writing, or by picture, effigy, or the like, Monson v. Tussauds, Ltd., (1894)1 QB 671, to libel. A writing of fictitious character which incidentally contains the name of a real person may be a libel: see Jones v. Hulton & Co., 1910 AC 20, where Lord ...
Equitable executor
Equitable executor, Where interests in property cannot be taken in execution under the processes at law available to the judgment creditor, he may obtain the appointment of a receiver and if necessary an injunction restraining the judgment debtor from dealing with the property. See R.S.C. Ord. L., r. 16 and Notes, A.P., ibid....
interlocutory appeal
interlocutory appeal an appeal from a nonfinal, or interlocutory, district court order, such as an injunction. An interlocutory order is issued during litigation of the case in the district court, not at the end of it. Interlocutory appeals are permitted by statute as an exception to the general policy requiring a final district court decision or order before an appeal is permitted. Source: Federal Judicial Center ...
Enjoin
To lay upon as an order or command to give an injunction to to direct with authority to order to charge...
Mandate
An official or authoritative command order or authorization from a superior official to a subordinate an order or injunction a commission a judicial precept...
Anticipatory nuisance
Anticipatory nuisance, means a condition that although not yet at the level of a nuisance, is very likely to become one, so that a party may obtain an injunction prohibiting the condition, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1094....
Precept
Any commandment instruction or order intended as an authoritative rule of action esp a command respecting moral conduct an injunction a rule...
Special injunctions
Special injunctions, prohibitory orders or interdicts against acts of parties, such as waste, nuisance, piracy, etc. see INJUNCTION....
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