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Diagonal

Joining two not adjacent angles of a quadrilateral or multilateral figure running across from corner to corner crossing at an angle with one of the sides...

Convention, 'convention' means the Convention on International Civil Aviation opened for signatures at Chicago on the 7th December, 1944. [Foreign Aircraft (Exemption from Taxes and Duties on Fuel and Lubricants) Act, (36 of 2002), s. 2(b); (69 of 1972), s. 2(ii)]An extraordinary assembly of the Houses of Lords and Commons, without the assent or summons of the sovereign. It can only be justified ex necessitate rei, as in the case of the Convention Parliament which restored Charles II., and that which disposed of the crown and kingdom to William and Mary in 1688. Also a treaty or agreement with a foreign government. See EXTRADITION.1. An agreement or compact, esp. one among nations; a multilateral treaty. 2. A generally accepted rule or practice, usage or custom, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 332.Convention, a writ for the breach of any covenant in writing, whether real or personal, Reg. Brev. 115; Fitz. N.B. 145....

Disposition

Disposition, giving away or giving up by a person of something which was his own, Commissioner of Gift Tax v. N.S. Getty Chettiar (1971) 2 SCC 741: AIR 1971 SC 2410: (1972) 1 SCR 736 & Controller of Estates Duty v. Kancharla Kesava Rao, (1973) 2 SCC 384: AIR 1973 SC 2484: (1973) 3 SCR 897.Disposition in the estate duty law of India enjoys and extended meaning. The framers of the Estate Duty Act,1953 desired by a deeming provision regarding 'disposition' to cover extinguishments of debts and all other rights at the expense of and made by the deceased in favour of the beneficiary. The substantive definition of 'property' in s. 2(15) is not exhaustive but only inclusive and the supplementary operation of Explanation 2 takes in which is not conventionally regarded as 'disposition'. Indeed, 'disposition', even accord-ing to law dictionaries, embraces 'the parting with, alienation of, or giving up property.... a destruction of property' (Black's Legal Dictionary), Controller of Estate Duty v...

Transaction

Transaction, includes a decree, as a decree may, under certain circumstances create the relationship of lender and borrower, Radha Kishen Chamria v. Keshardeo Chamria, AIR 1954 Cal 105: (1953) 92 Cal LJ 197.Transaction, is a group of acts so connected together as to be referred to by a single legal name as a crime, a contract, a wrong or any other subject of inquiry which may be in issue, A.N. Mukerji v. State, AIR 1969 All 489: 1969 Cr LJ 1203.Transaction, is something already done and com-pleted; a 'proceeding' either something which is now going on, or if ended, is still contemplated with reference to its progress on successive stages. A transaction in the ordinary sense of the words, means some business or dealing which is carried on, or transacted between two or more persons. A transaction is something which has been concluded between persons by a cross or reciprocal action, as it were, Channoo Mehta v. Jang Bhadur Singh, AIR 1957 Pat 293: 1956 BLJR 197.Means 'carrying through' an...

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