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Stamp duties

Agreements for Leases, (4) Mortgages whether legal or equitable, or (5) Settlements, the Act of 1888 created the new offence of not stamping, imposing the special penalty of ten pounds, which falls upon the obligee, vendee or … execution in ordinary cases. The same Act barred any right to sue for moneys assured by an unstamped assignment of a life policy, made void every condition of sale framed with a view of precluding objection or

Transfer

headquarter station in which he is employed to another such station, to take up the duties of a new post or in consequences of a change of his headquarter, Arbind Kumar v. State of Bihar, (1996) 2 … Property Act, 1925) provided that a transfer (therein called a feoffment) (see that title) of land, and an assignment of a lease (therein called a 'chattel interest') of land must be by deed. See DEED. By the

Constructive trust

own name, even in the absence of fraud and upon the refusal of the lessor to grant a new lease to the cestui que trust or expectant; for such renewed lease is held upon trust for the … a volunteer claiming under him, as well as a purchaser from him with notice, will be directed to assign the lease free from incumbrances, except a bona fide lease made by him at the best rent, and

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Jurisdiction

(1981) 2 SCC 577. Jurisdiction should not be confused with status and subordination. Parliament was motivated to create new adjudicatory for to provide new, cheap and fast-track adjudicatory systems and permitting them to function by tearing off … Court insofar as the exercise of judicial authority over the specified matters is concerned. That, however, does not assign the Administrative Tribunals a status equivalent to that of the High Court nor does that mean that for

Company

matters was kept at the lowest possible level. But gradually this doctrine was eroded by the emergence of new social value which recognised the role of the State as an active participant in the social and economic … that Act. [Payment of Bonus Act, 1965 (21 of 1965), s. 2 (9)] Company, shall have the meaning assigned to it in clause (17) of s. 2 of the Income-tax Act. [Wealth-tax Act, 1957 (27 of 1957),

Case, action on the

Statute of Westminster 2 (13 Edw. 1, c. 24), which regulated and limited the increasing practice of framing new writs by officers of the Crown and empowered the Clerks in Chancery to frame new writs in consimili … statutory authority was the issue of the writ 'indebitatus assumpsit, and although this cause of action has been assigned to the breach (a tort) of a promise and therefore in trespass the writ may also plausibly be

Public policy

fraud might have been contemplated but was not perpetrated, the defendants should not be allowed to perpetrate a new fraud. If the illegality of the transaction is trivial or venial and the plaintiff is not required to … to public policy. If cannot be said that public policy is involved in a contract which expressly prohibits assignment or subletting because it is made with government authorities, S Meikole Udayar v. S.P. Periasami Konar, AIR 1967

reservation

an instance of reserving [ of rights] 2 : the creation by and for a grantor of a new right or interest (as an easement) in real property granted to another ;also : the right or interest … This requirement was not retroactive. Federal land claim settlement acts pertaining to particular states have included statutes expressly assigning civil and criminal jurisdiction to the states involved.

Year to year, tenancy from

quarterly; or when such tenant holds over, after the expiration of his term, without having entered into any new contract, and pays rent (before which he is a tenant on sufferance), and in such cases the tenant … the lessor or lessee, or by a conveyance of their estate by either of them; so that the assigns, or real or personal representatives, of the former, according to the quantity of his estate, and the assignees,

Circuits

administer justice in the several counties. Two judges, until 1884, attended at each circuit town, when by a new scheme set on foot by the 'Circuits Order' of that year it was arranged that at the majority … 1909), continuous sittings are established for civil business at Manchester and Liverpool, a judge of the K.B.D. being assigned for the purpose. Consequently one circuit judge instead of two now attends at these places and takes the

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