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Attachment, in relation to building, includes lamps, brackets, pipes, electric lines and apparatus required for street lighting purposes, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 21, 4th Edn., Para 400, Note 3, p. 291.Attachment means prohibition of transfer, conversion, disposition or movement of property by an order issued under Chapter III. [Prevention of Money-Laundering Act, (15 of 2003), s. 2(d)]A process from a Court of Record, awarded by the judges at their discretion on a bare suggestion, or on their own knowledge, against a person guilty of a contempt, who is punishable in a summary manner. Contempts may be thus classed. (1) Disobedience to the King's writs; (2) Contempt in the face of a Court; (3) Contemptuous words or writings concerning a Court; (4) Refusing to comply with the rules and awards of a Court; (5) Abuse of the process of a Court, and (6) Forgery of writs, or any other deceit tending to impose on a Court, Leach's Hawk. P. Cr., c. 22, s. 33. The issue of writs of attachm...
Arrears of interest
Arrears of interest, means interest due up to the date of decree, I.C. Manick Chand v. Elias Saleh, AIR 1969 SC 671 (673). [Mysore Money Lenders Act, (13 of 1939), s. 17]...
Allocatione facienda
Allocatione facienda, a writ allowing to an accountant such sums of money as he had lawfully expended in his office; it was addressed to the Lord Treasurer and the Barons of the Exchequer, Reg. Brev. 206...
will
will 1 : the desire, inclination, or choice of a person or group 2 : the faculty of wishing, choosing, desiring, or intending 3 : a legal declaration of a person's wishes regarding the disposal of his or her property after death ;esp : a formally executed written instrument by which a person makes disposition of his or her estate to take effect after death see also codicil, living will, testament antenuptial will : a will that was executed by a person prior to that person's marriage and is usually revocable by the court if no provision was made for the person's spouse unless an intention not to make such a provision is manifest conditional will : a will intended to take effect upon a certain contingency and usually construed as having absolute force when the language pertaining to the condition suggests a general purpose to make a will counter will : mutual will in this entry holographic will : a will written out in the hand of the testator and accepted as valid in many sta...
grace period
grace period : a period of time beyond a scheduled date during which a required action (as payment of an obligation) may be taken without incurring the ordinarily resulting adverse consequences (as penalty or cancellation): as a : a period of 30 days or one month during which premiums on insurance policies may be paid without penalty b : a period of ten days during which certain security interests (as those in fixtures or purchase money security interests) must be perfected in order to have priority over conflicting security interests under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code called also days of grace ...
draft
draft 1 : a preliminary version of something (as a law) 2 a : a system for or act of selecting individuals from a group (as for military service) b : the act or process of selecting an individual (as for political candidacy) without his or her expressed consent 3 : an order for the payment of money drawn by one person or bank on another see also drawee, drawer compare check documentary draft : a draft that will be honored only upon the presentation of certain documents (as an invoice or certificate of title) sight draft : a draft payable on presentation time draft : a draft payable a specified number of days after the date of the draft or of its presentation vt 1 : to select for some purpose ;specif : to conscript for military service 2 : to compose or prepare esp. the preliminary version of [ing legislation] vi : to practice draftsmanship draft·er n ...
Plegiis acquietandis
Plegiis acquietandis, a writ that anciently lay for a surety against him for whom he was surety, if he paid not the money at the day, Fitz. N.B. 173....
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