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Doing nothing disinclined to work or exertion inactive idle lazy of people as a do nothing policy...
nothings
inconsequential conversation as they traded a few nothings as they parted...
Good faith
Good faith, nothing shall be deemed to be done in good faith which is not done with due care and attention. [Limitation Act, 1963, s. 2 (h)]The expression 'good faith' has not been defined in the U.P. Imposition of Ceiling on Land Holdings Act, 1960. The expression has several shades of meaning. In the popular sense, the phrase 'in good faith' simply means 'honestly, without fraud, collusion or deceit; really, actually, without pretence and without intent to assist or act in furtherance of a fraudulent or otherwise unlawful scheme'. (see WORDS AND PHRASES, Permanent Edition, Vol. 18-A, page 91). Although the meaning of 'good faith' may vary in the context of different statutes, subjects and situations, honest intent free from taint of fraud or fraudulent design, is a constant element of its connotation. Even so, the quality and quantity of the honest requisite for constituting 'good faith' is conditioned by the context and object of the statute in which this term is employed, Brijendra...
Magna Carta
Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III and Edward I later confirmed. It is generally regarded as one of the great common-law documents and as the foundation of constitution liberties. The other three great charters of English Liberty are the Petition of Right (3 Car. (1628)), the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2 (1679)), and the Bill of Rights (1 Will. SM. (1689)). Also spelled Magna charta, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 963.This Great Charter is based substantially upon the Saxon Common Law, which flourished in this kingdom until the Normaninvasion consolidated the system of feudality, still the great characteristic of the principles of real property. The barons assembled at St.Edmund's Bury, in Suffolk, in the later part of the year 1214, and there solemnly swore upon the high alter to withdraw their allegiance from the Crown, and openly rebel, unless King John confirmed by a formal charter the ancient li...
Delivery of a Deed
Delivery of a Deed, a requisite to a good deed.The delivery may be effected either by acts or by words, i.e., by doing something and saying nothing, as merely handing it to the grantee or his agent; or by saying something and doing nothing, as 'I deliver this writing as my act and deed,' or language of a similar import; or by doing and saying something. See Shep. Touch. P. 57.Delivery is of two kinds:--(a) Absolute, when the execution perfects the deed, and nothing is left to be done; or(b) Conditional, which is the handing of the writing to some third person to be delivered by him as the act and deed of the grantor, when certain specified conditions shall be performed. Until the conditions are performed the instrument is called an escrow, scrowl, or writing. See ESCROW.A deed takes effect only from delivery; for if the date be false or impossible, the delivery ascertains the time of it, 2 Bl. Com. 307.Deeds take precedence according to the time of their delivery, but their effect may ...
Rent
Rent [fr. reditus Lat.], a certain profit issuing yearly out of lands and tenements corporeal; it may be regarded as of a two fold nature--first, as some-thing issuing out of the land, as a compensation for the possession during the term; and secondly, as an acknowledgment made by the tenant to the lord of his fealty or tenure. It must always be a profit, yet there is no necessity that it should be, as it usually is, a sum of money; for spurs, capons, horses, corn, and other matters, may be, and occasionally are, rendered by way of rent; it may also consist in services or manual operations, as to plough so many acres of ground and the like; which services, in the eye of the law, are profits. The profit must be certain, or that which may be reduced to a certainty by either party; it must issue yearly, though it may be reserved every second, third, or fourth year; it must issue out of the thing granted, and not be part of the land or the thing itself.Consideration paid, usu. periodically...
Trade Union
Trade Union. The Acts 30 & 31 Vict. cc. 8, 74, provided for facilitating the proceedings of a commission appointed by Queen Victoria to inquire into and report on the organization and rules of trade unions, and other associations of employers and workmen. The (English) Trade Union Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 31), provides:-S. 2. 'The purposes of any trade union shall not, by reason merely that they are in restraint of trade, be deemed to be unlawful, so as to render any member of such trade union liable to criminal prosecution for conspiracy or otherwise.'S. 3. 'The purposes of any trade union shall not, by reason merely that they are in restraint of trade, be unlawful so as to render void or voidable any agreement or trust.'S. 4. 'Nothing in this Act shall enable any court to entertain any legal proceeding instituted with the object of directly enforcing or recovering damages for breach of any of the following agreements, namely,(1) Any agreement between members of a trade union as su...
final
final 1 : ending a court action or proceeding leaving nothing further to be determined by the court or to be done except execution of the judgment but not precluding appeal used of an order, decision, judgment, decree, determination, or sentence see also finality, final judgment rule compare interlocutory 2 : being a decision that precludes the right to appeal or to continue a case in any other court upon the merits: as a : being a decision for which availability of appeal has been exhausted and concerning which a writ of certiorari has been denied or the time to petition for certiorari has expired b : being a decision of the Supreme Court of the U.S. that terminates the litigation between parties on the merits and leaves nothing for the lower court to do in case of an affirmance except to execute the judgment 3 : being the last in a series, process, or progress [a payment] ...
event horizon
the boundary surface surrounding a black hole from outside of which nothing inside can be observed because nothing inside that surface even light can escape beyond it See also black hole and escape velocity...
Accused, statement of
Accused, statement of. Where an accused person is brought before justices of the peace, the (English) Criminal Justice Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 86), s. 12, directs the justices, after the close of the evidence for the prosecution, to ask him whether he wishes to say anything in answer to the charge, telling him that he is not obliged to say anything unless he desires to do so, but that whatever he says will be taken down in writing, and may be given in evidence upon his trial. The justices, before the accused person makes any statement, must make him clearly understand that he has nothing to hope from any promise of favour, and nothing to fear from any threat which may have been held out to him to induce him to make any confession, but that whatever he says may be given in evidence upon his trial, notwithstanding such promise or threat. Whatever the accused states in answer to the charge shall be taken down in the manner shown in the forms prescribed by the rules made under the Ac...
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