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Undertaking

the business of an undertaker; a business, work, or project which one engages in or attempts, Webster's Third New International Dictionary, See also Mor Modern Coop. Transport Society Ltd. v. Financial Commr. & Secy. to Govt. of … definition of the expression 'industry', noscitur a sociis cannon of construction was invoked and a restricted meaning was assigned to it in Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board v. A. Rajappa, (1978) 3 SCR 207, 227: (1978)

Letters-patent, or letters overt

by letters-patent, and letters-patent of precedence were granted to barristers. By letters-patent aliens are made denizens, and especially new inventions are protected; hence the incorporeal chattel of patent-right. A 'patent-right' is a privilege granted by the Crown … such foreign countries as are parties to a Convention with the country, within 12 months, and it is assignable under seal either absolutely or with time or regional limits. Upon death, the patent rights vest in the

Limitation of actions and prosecutions

upon any simple contract, no acknowledgment or promise by words only shall be deemed sufficient evidence of a new or continuing contract whereby to take any case out of the operation of 21 Jac. 1, c. 16, … plaintiff, if entitled at law, might have brought an action (s. 24). But as to an action for assignment of dower, see Williams v. Thomas, (1909) 1 Ch 713. Trustees are empowered to plead statutes of limitation

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Impossible or impermissible

or 'not feasible'; at any rate it means something very much more than 'not reasonably practicable''. In the New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998, at p. 918), impracticable (of a course of action) is defined to mean … term than 'expedient'. In The Law Lexicon (P. Ramanatha Aiyar, 2nd Edn., p. 889) one of the meanings assigned to impracticable is ''not possible' or 'not feasible'; at any rate it means something very much more than

Mortgage

invest in mortgages of land, see (English) Trustee Act,1925, ss. 1, 8, 9 and 10. Upon appointment of new trustees, the land mortgaged must be expressly conveyed or transferred to them. See s. 40 (4), ibid., and … increase of interest, s. 4 of the 1920 Act. All causes for redemption or foreclosure of mortgages are assigned to the Chancery Division of the High Court: (English) Jud. Act, 1873, s. 34. As to the power

Chancery

of the High Court under the (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1914, and certain matters relating to the appointment of new trustees and vesting orders of property in connection with persons of unsound mind, see s. 54, (English) T. … s. 4, a Division of the High Court of Justice called the Chancery Division. To this Division are assigned (1) matters in which the court of Chancery had exclusive statutory jurisdiction (except County Court appeals), of these,

Feasts

Wednesday, Sexagesima, Ascension-day, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, etc. The four principal immovable feasts of the year, which are commonly assigned in England for the payment of rents on leases, are the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or

Priority

mortgages:- After 1926 subsisting and future mortgages of the equity of redemption of a legal estate in its new and statutory meaning, i.e., a fee simple or a term of years absolute, but not mortgages of life … instrument under seal, or is otherwise made or constituted a specialty debt. The priority in legal and equitable assignments of equitable choses in action are determined accord-ing to the date of receipt of notice by the persons

Trust

powers of trustees; Part III., appointment and discharge of trustees; Part IV., powers of the Court, appointment of new trustees (q.v.) and vesting and other orders (s. 57 gives power to he Court to authorize an extension … JUDICIAL TRUSTEE. By the (English) Judicature Act, 1873, s. 34, the execution of trusts, charitable or private, is assigned to the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice. For the special provisions made for the execution

Executor

executor may and should shortly after the funeral publish an advertisement in The London Gazette, a London daily newspaper and, if necessary, a local newspaper, for debtors to pay their debts, and for claimants to send in … be set apart to meet future claims upon the estate in respect of the covenants in a lease assigned to a purchaser, etc. (4) Probate should be obtained within six calendar months after death of testator, and

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