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Sales tax

construed strictly, regardless of the hardship that such a construction may cause either to the treasury or to the taxpayer. If

Possession

need not be actual, physical possession or personal occupation, but may be possession in law. 'Possession' means 'the state of owning

Delegated legislation

to approval or disapproval by either House; Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 576. In England, the practice of

assumpsit

promise or contract or quasi contract the breach of which may be grounds for a suit ;also : a common-law action

power--viz., by marriage, legitimation, and adoption, and how that power may be lost. Title XIII to the end of the first … them is into two kinds--Civil, or those constituted by the laws, or at least recognized by the Civil Law, and Pr'torian,

Copyhold

and according to the custom of such manor. The tenant may have the same quantities of interest in this tenure as … accordance with the manorial customs under which they held, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 12(1), para 642, p. 189.

Property

v. State, AIR 1968 Raj 70. In commercial law this may carry its ordinary meaning of the subject-matter of ownership. But … acquisitions, without any control or diminution, save only by the laws of the land, Jilubhai Nanbhai Khachar v. State of Gujarat,

Lien

other dealings of the like nature. General and particular liens may arise: (1) by an express contract; (2) by an implied

Bastard

Adoption of Children Act, 1926 (c. 29), an adoption order may be made affecting such child. See ADOPTION. A person born … & 20 Geo. 5, c. 36)] The civil and canon laws did not allow a child to remain a bastard if

Rent

profit issuing yearly out of lands and tenements corporeal; it may be regarded as of a two fold nature--first, as some-thing … only be reserved on a demise of immovable property, Halsbury's Laws of England, 3rd Edn., Vol. 23, para 1193-94, p. 536-37.

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