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Nominate contracts

Nominate contracts, those distinguished by particular names, Civil Law....

Nomine poena (under the description of a penalty), an additional rent payable by way of penalty in the event of certain acts prejudicial to the landlord being done by the tenant, as if he should plough up pasture.The (English) Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923 (1 & 14 Geo. 5, c. 9), by s. 29 restricts penal rents to actual damage suffered, excepting, however, from this restriction penal rents for breaking up permanent pasture, grubbing underwoods, felling, etc., trees, or relating to the burning of heather. See Aggs on Agricultural Holdings....

Quod a quoquo pane nomine exactum est id eidem restituere nemo cogitur

Quod a quoquo pane nomine exactum est id eidem restituere nemo cogitur (D. 50, 17, 46), no one is obliged to restore that which has been exacted by way of penalty....

Catallis captis nomine districtionis

Catallis captis nomine districtionis, an obsolete writ that lay where a house was within a borough, for rent issuing out of the same, and which warranted the taking of doors, windows, etc., by way of distress, Old Nat. Brev. 66....

De nomination

De nomination, a collection of individuals classed together under same name: a religious sect or body having a common faith and organisation and designated by a distinctive name, Commissioner, Hindu Religious Endowments v. Sri Lakshmindra Thirtha Swamiar of Sri Shirur Mutt, AIR 1954 SC 282: (1954) SCR 1005.A religious group of a community of believers called by the same name, State of Rajasthan v. Shri Sajjanlal Panjawat, (1974) 1 SCC 500: AIR 1975 SC 706: (1974) 2 SCR 741....

Candidate

Candidate [fr. Candidatus, Lat., clothed in white], a competitor, one who solicits or proposes himself for a place or office. The name is derived from the toga candida in which competitors at Rome were habited. In the (English) Corrupt Practices Acts the expression has a specially extensive meaning. Corrupt and Illegal practices (English) Prevention Act, 1883, s. 63, by which, with a saving for a person nominated without his consent-In the Corrupt Practices Prevention Acts, as amended by this Act, the expression 'candidate at an election' and the expression 'candidate' respectively mean, unless the context otherwise requires, any person, elected to serve in Parliament at such election, and any person who is nominated as a candidate at such election, or is declared by himself or by others to be a candidate on or after the day of the issue of the writ for such election, or after the dissolution or vacancy in consequence of which such writ has been issued.Making certain false statements a...

To stand or not to stand as a candidate

To stand or not to stand as a candidate, a person who has been or claims to have been duly nominated as a candidate as any election and any such person shall be deemed to have been a candidate as from the time when, with the election in prospect, he began to hold himself out as a prospective candidate. The first part of the definition requires that in order to be a candidate a person should have been duly nominated as a candidate. But it may sometimes happen that though a person claims to have been duly nominated, the validity of his nomination is in dispute: such a person would also be a candidate within the meaning of the definition. The basic postulate of the first part of the definition is that a person should be duly nominated and it is only then that he becomes a candidate at an election. The second part of the definition does not extend the meaning of the word 'candidate' but merely says from what point of time a person, who has been duly nominated as a candidate, shall be deeme...

Renomination

Renomination, 'renomination' is an act or process of being nominated again. Any person who had held office of member some time in past, if being nominated now, cannot be described as being 'again nominated.' It is only a member just retiring who can be called 'being again nominated' or 'renominated', Harbhajan Singh v. Press Council of India, (2002) 3 SCC 722: AIR 2002 SC 1351 (1353).Renomination, is an act or process of being nominated again, Harbhajan Singh v. Press Council of India, (2002) 3 SCC 722....

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