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avoid

avoid [modification of Old French esvuider to destroy, literally, to empty, from es- out + vuider to empty] 1 : to make void or undo : annul [the trustee may any transfer of interest of the...

Metacrolein

A polymeric modification of acrolein obtained by heating it with caustic potash It is a crystalline substance having an aromatic odor

Cut and removed from any land

Cut and removed from any land, words 'cut and removed from any land' used in s. 4 to not suggest felling of the trees and removing the wood from one part to another on the land....

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Public policy

do not belong to a fixed or customary law; they are capable on proper occasions of expansion and modification, Circumstances may change and make a commercial practice expedient which was formerly mischievous to commerce, Mafizuddin Khan Choudhry

Timber

SC 2672 (2676): (2001) 5 SCC 684. See also AIR 1985 SC 1293 (1310). [Kerala Grants and leases Modification of Rights) Act, 1980 (16 of 1980), s. 4 and 3(a)]

Equitable estates and interests

deriving title under him, exept purchasers for value without notice. This is still the law subject to statutory modifications which enable certain persons to convey land free from equities in certain cases. See ESTATE OWNER, LEGAL ESTATE,

Shall have regard to the provisions of this Act

this Act' merely mean that 'where the new Act has slightly modified or clarified the previous provisions, these modifications and clarifications should be applied', Karam Singh Sobti v. Pratap Chand, AIR 1964 SC 1305: (1964) 4 SCR

Articles

Articles are therefore considered as a memorandum or minute of an agreement to make some future disposition or modification of property. Such an instrument will create a trust or equitable estate, and a specific performance of it

Compromise, Settlement

difference by mutual concessions. It is an agreement reached by adjustment of conflicting or opposing claims by reciprocal modification of demands. As per Terms de la Ley, 'compromise is a mutual promise of two or more parties

Final decision

is unalterable except by resort to such provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure as permit its reversal, modification or amendment. Similarly, a final decision would mean a decision which would operate as res judicata between the

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