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Act of Parliament
be construed according to the intent and object with which it was made, and not according to the mere letter; (3) these points must be considered'the old law, the mischief, and the remedy; (4) remedial statutes are
Aggravation
Aggravation, the increase of the enormity of a wrong. Matters of mere aggravation, that is, which tend only to increase the amount of damages, and do not constitute the right
Amalgamation
by the transfer of one or more undertakings to an existing company. Strictly 'amalgamation' does not cover the mere acquisition by a company of the share capital of other company which remains in existence and continues its
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Company
and company partnerships is that a duly constituted company is a 'person' in law (see CORPORATION), while a mere partnership is not a legal entity, although the partners may sue and be sued in the firm's name,
Customary freeholds
in which they differ from copyholds; yet the will of the lord in copyhold is reduced to a mere fiction. These lands are of such singular nature that, when they are compared with mere copyholds, they may
Entrustment
have confidence in the person taking the property so as to create a fiduciary, relationship between them. A mere transaction of sale cannot amount to an entrustment, State of Gujarat v. Jaswantlal Nathalal, AIR 1965 SC 700
Requirement
1979 SC 272. Requirement, coupled with the word reasonable means that it must be something more than a mere desire but need not certainly be a compelling or absolute or dire necessity, Raghunath G. Panhale v. Chaganlal
Equity
spirit. Aristotle, in his discussion concerning Moral Equity, Ethics Eud., b.v., c. x, calls it the correction of mere law, where mere law fails on account of its univer-sality and points to the impossibility of providing for
Entry
as in these the original entry of the wrongdoer was unlawful, they may therefore be remedied by the mere entry of him who has right. But upon a discontinuance or deforcement, the owner of the estate cannot
Joint-tenancy
for there must exist a unity of title between them which must be by purchase and not by mere operation of law, and the estate must vest in them at one and the same time; for a
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