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Specific performance

Specific performance. Equity, in obedience to the cardinal rule of natural justice that a person should perform his agreement enforces,...

Street, as appearing in different provisions of the Punjab Municipal Act is to be read in the wider sense and...

Perpetuity, concerns rights of property only, and does not affect the making of contracts, which do not create rights of...

Public policy, connotes some matter which concerns public good and the public interest. Expression does not admit of precise definition....

Precedent, a decision is a precedent of its own features. Further, the enunciation of the reason or principle on which...

Jurisdiction, is a verbal coat of many colours. Jurisdiction originally seems to have had the meaning which Lord Reid ascribed...

Limitation of actions and prosecutions. By various statutes, of which the first was 21 Jac. 1, c. 16, the (English)...

Landlord and tenant. A tenancy arises when the owner of an estate inland, called the lessor or landlord, agrees expressly...

Housing of the working classes. The Housing Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5, and 1 Edw. 8, c. 51), replaces with...

Executor. A person appointed by a testator to carry out the directions and requests in his will, and to dispose...