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Cause of action

Cause of action, a cause of action is a bundle of facts which are required to be pleaded and proved for the purpose of obtaining relief claimed in the suit. For the aforementioned purpose, the material...

Case stated

Case stated, a narrative (agreed upon by both parties to an action, or drawn up by an impartial person agreed upon by them or settled by the Court or a judge) setting forth the facts and...

Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, (English)

Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, (English) (8 & 9 Vict. C. 18), amended by 23 & 24 Vict. C. 106, and 32 & 33 Vict. c. 18, applicable to England and Ireland, the Public Act of...

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Obvious error

Obvious error, obvious error must be such which can be amended without affecting the decision, Visakapatnam Municipal Corporation v. K. Satyanarayana, (1955) 2 SCC 385 (386). [Arbitration Act, 1940, s. 15(b)]

Legal representative

Legal representative, a 'legal representative' ordinarily means a person who in law represents the estate of a deceased person or a person on whom the estate devolves on the death of an individual, Gujarat State Road...

Signing

Signing, to write one's name is signature. S. 3(56) of the General Clauses Act has extended its meaning with reference to a person who is unable to write his name to include 'mark' with its grammatical...

Workmen's Compensation Act

Workmen's Compensation Act. (English) The Workmen's Compensation Act, 1897, introduced the principle of compulsory insurance of workmen by employers in a restricted number of trades. The gist of a right to compensation under the Acts is...

Undue

Undue, 'undue' must mean something which is not merited by the conduct of the claimant, or is very much disproportionate to it, Sterling General Insurance Co. Ltd. v. Planters Airways Pvt. Ltd., AIR 1975 SC 415...

Umpirage

Umpirage, friendly decision of a controversy; arbitration. 1. The office or authority of an umpire 2. The decision (such as an arbitral award) of any umpire, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1525.

Through an agent

contract is made through an agent, the meaning is that the terms of the contract are arranged through mediation of the agent, National Mortgage, etc. Ltd. v. Gosslin, etc., (1922) 38 TLR 832.

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