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Land charge

affecting land and deeds of arrangement must be registered a new every five years. Failure to register charges created after 1888 … the Land Charges Act, 1925, means any purchaser for valuable consideration unless he is referred to otherwise, e.g., as a purchaser

Impossible or impermissible

something very much more than 'not reasonably practicable''. In the New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998, at p. 918), impracticable (of … of the term in these words - 'Although there is considerable overlap, impractic-able and impractical are not used in exactly the

Challenge

to the coroner, or they would be grounds for a new trial. (2) A challenge to the polls, which is an … act of the juror he has ceased to be, in consideration of the law, probus et legalis homo. (b) A challenge

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Fidelity, fidelity insurance gurantee

in the court of law, Food Corpn. of India v. New India Assurance Co. Ltd., AIR 1994 SC 1889: (1994) 3 … has been placed'. It is a contract whereby, for a consideration, one agrees to indemnify another against loss arising from the

Directly

Directly, The word 'directly', according to Webster's New World Dictionary, means 'in a direct way, without a person … away the mineral had been granted by the intermediary in consideration of receiving a periodic rent, royalty or a like amount,

Copyhold

succeed each other by right of survivorship and without a new admittance, and fines are not due but upon admittance; the … the lord from the heir upon his admission, as a consideration for the renewal of a grant. If the heir refuse

Award

failed to use reasonable despatch in making the award. When new and material evidence has been subsequently discovered, the award may … accordingly, in the first place, the taking a matter into consideration and pronouncing judgment upon it; but in later times the

Accord

14 QB 380; Ib., 16 QB 1039; but whether the new agreement in itself or the performance of it constitutes the … Royal Bank of Canada, 95 LJ PC 17. And see CONSIDERATION. * See British Russian Gazette Ltd. v. Associated Newspapers Ltd.,

reopen

hear (an action) anew esp. for the purpose of hearing new evidence … again [ discussion] 2 : to resume the discussion or consideration of (a closed matter) [ the contract to negotiate benefits]

preexisting duty rule

has been a rescission of the contract followed by a new contract. … a performance already required under an existing contract is insufficient consideration for modification of the contract NOTE: This rule is not

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