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the Indian people occupying the area of Veracruz Chiapas Tabasco Campeche and Yucatan together with a part of Guatemala and a part of Salvador The Maya peoples are dark short and brachycephalic and at the time of the discovery had attained a higher grade of culture than any other American people They cultivated a variety of crops were expert in the manufacture and dyeing of cotton fabrics used cacao as a medium of exchange and were workers of gold silver and copper Their architecture comprised elaborately carved temples and palaces and they possessed a superior calendar and a developed system of hieroglyphic writing with records said to go back to about 700 a d...
Mayan
Designating or pertaining to an American Indian linguistic stock occupying the Mexican States of Veracruz Chiapas Tabasco Campeche and Yucatan together with a part of Guatemala and a part of El Salvador See 2nd Maya...
Colourable
Colourable, 'Colour', according to Black's Legal Dictionary, is 'an appearance, semblance or simulacrum, as distinguished from that which is real.... a deceptive appearance.... a lack of reality'. A thing is colourable which is, in appearance only and not in reality, what it purports to be. In Indian terms, it is maya. In the jurisprudence of power, colourable exercise of or fraud on legislative power or, more frightfully, fraud on the Constitution, are expressions which merely mean that the legislature is incompetent to enact a particular law although the label of competency is stuck on it, and then it is colourable legislation, R.S. Joshi v. Ajit Mills Limited (1977) 4 SCC 98: (1978) 1 SCR 338: AIR 1977 SC 2279 (2286). (Constitution of India, Art. 246)...
Common Law
Common Law [lex communis, Lat.]. 'The phrase 'common law' is used in two very different senses. It is cometimes contrasted with equity; it then denotes the law which, prior to the Judicature Act, was administered in the three ' superior ' Courts of law at Westminster, as distinct from that administered by the Court of Chancery at Lincoln's Inn. At other times it is used in contradistinction to the statute law, and then denotes the unwritten law, whether legal or equitable in its origin, which does not derive its authority from any express declaration of the will of the Legislature. This unwritten law has the same force and effect as the statute law. It depends for its authority upon the recognition given by our Law Courts to principles, customs, and rules of conduct previously existing among the people. This recognition was formerly enshrined in the memory of legal practitioners and suitors in the Courts; it is now recorded in the voluminous series of our law reports which embody the d...
Continuing default
Continuing default, in 'Words and Phrases', Permanent Edition, under the head 'Continuing Offence', instances have been given which indicate that as long as the default continues the offence is deemed to repeat and, therefore, it is taken as a continuing offence, Maya Rani Ponj v. C.I.T, AIR 1986 SC 293 (299): (1986) 1 SCC 445....
Continuing wrong
Continuing wrong, If a duty continues from day to day, the non-performance of that duty from day to day is a continuing wrong, Maya Rani Punj v. Commissioner of Income-tax, (1986) 1 SCC 445: AIR 1986 SC 293: 91985) Supp 3 SCR 827....
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