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Negligence

Negligence, acting carelessly, a question of law or fact or of mixed fact and law, depending entirely upon the nature...

Probation, connotes a period of trial, Ajudhia Nath Dhingra v. Union of India, 1976 Sim LJ 357. Means a sort...

Bill of Lading, a memorandum signed by masters of ships, in their capacity of carriers, acknowledging the receipt of merchants'...

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Person of unsound mind, a term by which in a more enlightened age persons afflicted with a mental illness affecting...

Urban land, means the land situated in such munici-pal area and the areas in the periphery there of as may...

Trade Union. The Acts 30 & 31 Vict. cc. 8, 74, provided for facilitating the proceedings of a commission appointed...

Taxation of costs. The mode by which certain officers of the various courts allow or disallow the sums claimed by...

Summons [fr. the writ called summoneas--Pegge's Anecd. Of the Eng. Lang., 2nd Edn. 173], a call of authority, admonition to...

Reference was the sending of any matter of inquiry by the Court of Chancery to a chief clerk, a taxing...

Manumission, the act of giving freedom to slaves. Among the Romans it was performed in three several ways: 1st, when...

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