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natural person : a human being as distinguished from a person (as a corporation) created by operation of law compare juridical person, legal person ...
Natural persons
Natural persons, such as are, formed by the Deity, as distinguished from artificial persons or corporations, formed by human laws, for purposes of society and government....
Ill natured
Of habitual bad temper having an unpleasant disposition surly disagreeable cross peevish fractious crabbed of people as an ill natured person an ill natured disagreeable old man Opposite of good natured...
Person
Person, a Hindu Undivided Family is a person, Kshetra Mohan-Sannyasi Charan Sadhukhan v. Commissioner of Excess Profit Tax, West Bengal, AIR 1953 SC 516.According to company law it does not mean an unregistered firm, Firm Pannaji v. Devichand Kapurchand, 99 IC 640.Person, does not include court, Kharka Gigabhai Mavji v. Soni Jagjivan Kanji, (1979) 20 Guj LR 256.Person, implies only an individual and does not bear scrutiny when construed in the case of a company, a firm of partners or an association of persons, J.K. Industries Ltd. v. Chief Inspector of Factories and Boilers, (1997) SCC (205) 1.Person, in an Act of Parliament passed after 1st January, 1890, includes 'any body of persons corporate or unincorporate' unless the contrary intention appears, Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 19. A corporation, such as a limited company, may be a 'respectable and responsible person' within the meaning of a covenant against assignment in a lease, Willmott v. London Road Car Co., (1910) 2 Ch 525. A c...
Joint-tenancy
Joint-tenancy. This tenancy is created where the same interest in real or personal property is, by the act of the party, passed by the same matter of conveyance or claim in solido, and not as merchan-dise, or for purposes of speculation, to two or more persons in the same right, either simply, or by construction or operation of law jointly, with a jus accrescendi, that is, a gradual concentration of property from more to fewer, by the accession of the part of him or them that die to the survivors or survivor, till it passes to a single hand, and the joint-tenancy ceases.Anciently, joint-tenancy was favoured because it did not induce fractions of estates, and returning to early principles the (English) Land Legislation of 1925 has employed the tenure generally as the machinery by which legal estate may in such cases always be in some person, called the estate owner, who is competent to give a title to the whole estate without the concurrence of other parties. that legal estate has been ...
Remainder
Remainder [fr. remanentia, Lat.], that expectant portion, remnant, or residue of interest which, on the creation of a particular estate, is at the same time limited over to another, who is to enjoy it after the determination of such particular estate.After 1925 remainders can operate only as equitable interests, and in that manner they can be created in respect of personality as well as realty. The follow-ing explanation of legal remainders has been retained as relating to titles to land existing before 1926, and see (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 4, as to the construction of equitable interests.A remainder may be limited in all freehold estates, but not strictly and technically in chattels real and personal, although these may be limited over after a previous limitation or a partial interest in them. It may be limited by way of use (which is, in practice, the usual method), as well as by a conveyance deriving its effect from the Common Law.In the same land there may at the sa...
guardian
guardian : one who has or is entitled or legally appointed to the care and management of the person or property of another compare committee, conservator, curator, receiver, tutor guardian ad li·tem [-ad-lī-təm, -Ä d-lē-tem] : a guardian appointed by a court to represent in a particular lawsuit the interests of a minor, a person not yet born, or a person judged incompetent guardian by nature : natural guardian in this entry natural guardian : a guardian by natural relationship having custody of the person but not the property of a minor NOTE: Under common law the father is considered the natural guardian of a child until his death or incapacitation, whereupon the mother becomes the natural guardian. Many states have passed statutes giving both parents equal rights as guardians. statutory guardian : a guardian appointed by statutory authority testamentary guardian : a person named in a will to serve as a guardian guard·ian·ship n ...
Whoever
Whoever, includes association of persons, such as firm, and does not connote natural person alone, M/s Rai Bahadur Seth Shreeram Durgaprasad v. Director of Enforcement, AIR 1987 SC 1364.The word 'whoever' in sub-s. (1) of s. 23 of the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1947 before its amendment was comprehensive enough to include an association of persons, such as a firm, and did not connote a natural person alone, Rai Bahadur Seth Shreeram Durgaprasad v. Director of Enforcement, AIR 1987 SC 1364 (1367): (1987) 3 SCC 27: (1987) 3 SCR 137. [Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1947, s. 23(1), 239c), 12(c) (as stood prior to the Amendment Act, 39 of 1957]The word 'whoever' occurring at the opening part of s. 202 of the Penal Code refers to a person other than the offender and has no application to the person who is alleged to have committed the principal offence. This is so because there is no law which casts a duty on a criminal to give information which would incriminate himself. That apart ...
juridical person
juridical person in the civil law of Louisiana : an entity (as a partnership or corporation) that is given rights and responsibilities compare natural person NOTE: The rights and responsibilities of a juridical person are distinct from those of the natural persons constituting it. ...
natural
natural 1 : based on an inherent sense of right and wrong [ justice] see also natural law, natural right 2 a : existing as part of or determined by nature [the condition of the land] b : being in accordance with or arising from nature esp. as distinguished from operation of law see also natural person compare artificial c : arising from the usual course of events [a result of the accident] 3 a : begotten as distinguished from adopted b : being a relation by consanguinity as distinguished from adoption [ parents] 4 : illegitimate [a child] nat·u·ral·ly adv ...
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