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Non-resistance

Non-resistance. See DIVINE RIGHT....

Error qui non resistitur, approbatur

Error qui non resistitur, approbatur [Lat.], An error which is not resisted, is approved.Thus, one who enables another to commit a fraud is answerable. A person who has a title to property offered at auction, and, knowing his title, stands by and encourages the sale, or does not forbid it, will be bound by the sale. (See Maxims 137, 883, 884)....

Five-mile Act

Five-mile Act, 35 Eliz. c. 2,whereby popish recusants, convicted for not going to church, were compelled to repair to their usual place of abode, and not to remove above five miles from thence, repealed (after long disuse) by 7 & 8 Vict. c. 102. Also, 17 Car. 2, c. 2, whereby clergy who refused to take the oath of non-resistance imposed by the Act on all who had not subscribed the Act of Uniformity, were forbidden to come within five miles of a corporate town, and non-conformists were forbidden to teach in any school under heavy penalties; repealed by 52 Geo. 3, c. 155, s. 1.A 1665 Act prohibiting Puritan minister from teach-ing or coming within fix miles any town where they had held of the if they refused to pledges that they would not seek to overturn the church of England. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....

Electrical resistance wires

Electrical resistance wires, the expression 'electrical resistance wires' in Item 73(23) has to be read along with the 'Nichrome' which precedes that expression and, it can only mean electrical wires having characteristics similar to those of Nichrome, namely, high resistivity, keeping in view the low resistivity of Tungsten wire it cannot be regarded as electrical resistance wire falling under Item 73(23), Union of India v. Kalpana Industries Ltd., 1995 Supp (6) SCC 712 (714). [Customs Tariff Act, 1934, Sch. I, Item 73(23)]...

Corrosion-resisting material

Corrosion-resisting material, valves made of corrosion-resisting material are held to be covered by heading 84.61(2), Goodyear India Ltd. v. C.I.F, (2000) 10 SCC 489: AIR 1999 SC 1558. [Customs Tariff Act, 1975, Heading 84.61(2)]Corrosion-resisting material, if the material from which the valves are made is a corrosion-resisting material, Goodyear India Ltd. v. Collector of Custom, Bombay, (2000) 10 SCC 489....

Divine Right

Divine Right, the title whereby, particularly in the seventeenth century, English sovereigns claimed to reign. See NON-RESISTANCE....

Passive resisters

Passive resisters, those persons who, as a protest against the expenditure of a local authority in connection with an object of which they disapprove, decline to pay that part of a rate attributable to such expenditure, and by such 'passive resistance' force the local authority to recover the sum withheld by distress and sale or other process. Passive resistance was resorted to especially in connection with the operation of the (English) Education Act, 1902. See R. v. Gillespie, 1904 KB 174....

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