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Notice, the making something known to a person of which he was or might be ignorant. Notice is either (1) statutory; (2) actual, which brings the knowledge of a fact directly home to the party; or (3) constructive or implied, which is no more than evidence of facts which raise such a strong presumption of notice that equity will not allow the presumption to be rebutted. [S. 154, I.P.C. and Art. 61(2)(a) const. 56 Indian Evidence Act]Constructive notice may be subdivided into: (a) where the facts of which actual evidence is supplied give rise to a further enquiry which a man exercising ordinary caution would make equity has added constructive notice of the facts, which that inquiry would have elicited; and (b) where there has been a designed abstinence from inquiry for the very purpose of avoiding notice. See CONSTRUCTIVE NOTICE.A purchaser with notice may protect himself by purchasing the title of another bona fide purchaser for a valuable consideration without notice; for, otherwise, ...
Notice to quit
Notice to quit. Where there is a tenancy from year to year subsisting, it can only be put an end to by notice to quit, which may be given by either party, and must be given one half-year previously to the expiration of the current year of tenancy, so as to expire at the same period of the year in which the tenant entered upon the premises. This rule is to be invariably followed in all cases, except where there is some special agreement between the parties to a different effect, or where a particular local custom intervenes, or where the (English) Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923, applies, in which case, by s. 25 of that Act, a notice must be given to terminate the tenancy twelve months from the end of the then current year of the tenancy.Where the term of a lease is to end on a precise day, there is no occasion for a notice to quit previously to bringing an action of ejectment because both parties are equally apprised of the termination of the term. If a tenant continue in possession by...
notice
notice 1 a : a notification or communication of a fact, claim, demand, or proceeding see also process, service NOTE: The requirements of when, how, and what notice must be given to a person are often prescribed by a statute, rule, or contract. b : awareness of such a fact, claim, demand, or proceeding actual notice 1 : actual awareness or direct notification of a specific fact, demand, claim, or proceeding [had actual notice of the meeting] called also express notice 2 : implied notice in this entry constructive notice : notice that one exercising ordinary care and diligence as a matter of duty would possess and esp. that is imputed by law rather than from fact [held to have constructive notice of the prior recorded deed] compare recording act express notice : actual notice in this entry implied notice : notice that is imputed to a party having knowledge of a fact or circumstance that would cause a reasonable party to inquire further or having possession of a means of know...
Constructive notice
Constructive notice. The knowledge which is imputed to a party: (a) if he omits to make the usual and proper inquiry into the title of property which he has purchased; (b) if he omits to investigate some fact which has been brought to his notice suggesting the existence of such title or claim; (c) if he deliberately refrains from inquiry in order to avoid notice. See Halsbury, L.E., vol. 13, and the person affected with constructive notice takes, if at all, subject to the title or claim, whether he knew of it or not; for instance, a purchaser of land who is satisfied to take a shorter title than he could call for by statute is affected by notice of all trusts and equities of which he would have had notice if he had seen the full title. See Cox and Neve's Contract, (1891) 2 Ch 109; Patman v. Harland, (1881) 17 CD 353 illustrates the doctrine. It was there held that: (a) notice of a material document is notice of its contents, and (b) although the (English) Vendor and Purchaser Act, 1874...
Service of notice/notice
Service of notice/notice, according to Art. 158 of the First Schedule to the Indian Limitation Act, the period of limitation for an application to set aside an award under the Arbitration Act, 1940, begins to run from 'the date of service of the notice of the filing of the award. Notice does not necessarily mean 'communication in writing. 'Notice' accord-ing to the Oxford Concise Dictionary, means 'intimation, intelligence, warning' and has this meaning in expressions like 'give notice, have notice' and it also means 'formal intimation of something, or instructions to do something' and has such a meaning in expressions like 'notice to quit, till further notice'. Further, 'service', according to Webster's New International Diction-ary, II Edition, Unabridged, means 'act of bringing to notice, either actually or constructively, in such manner as is prescribed by law'. Oral communica-tion will therefore amount to service too, when no particular mode of service is prescribed. When the Legi...
Notice of dishonour
Notice of dishonour. The 49th section of the Bills of Exchange Act,1882, contains fifteen rules as to notice of dishonour, of which the more important are these:-The notice must be given by or on behalf of the holder or of an indorser himself liable (sub-s. 1).The notice may be given in writing or by personal communication. If written it need not be signed, and an insufficient written notice may be supplemented by a verbal communication (sub-ss. 5, 7).The notice may (sub-s. 12) be given as soon as the bill is dishonoured, and must be given within a reasonable time thereafter. In the absence of special circumstances notice is not deemed to have been given within a reasonable time, unless--(a) When the person giving and the person to receive notice reside in the same place, the notice is given or sent off in time to reach the latter on the day after the dishonour of the bill.(b) Where the person giving and the person to receive notice reside in different places, the notice is sent off on...
Notice of accident
Notice of accident. The (English) Notice of Accidents Act, 1906, requires annual returns and notices of accidents in mines and quarries to be given, and in the case of accidents in factories and workshops notice must be sent to the district inspector, and also in certain events to the certifying surgeon of the district. In the case of mines, however, provision for notice is now made by the (English) Coal Mines Act, 1911, Part IV. see CERTIFYING SURGEON; COAL MINES. Notice of accident must be in writing when given under s. 4 of the Employers Liability Act, 1880 [Keen v. Millwall Dock Co., (1882) 8 QBD 482]; or under s. 2 (1) of the (English) Workmen's Compensation Act, 1906 [see now (English) Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925, s. 14] [Hughes v. Coed Talon Co., (1909) 1 KB 957]; or under the (English) Coal Mines Act, 1911; notice of road accident by motor vehicle, see (English) Road Traffic Act, 1930, s. 22. (English) Notice of Accidents Act, 1894 (c. 28), provides for notice of and inqui...
Priority Notice
Priority Notice, of charge under (English) Land Charges Act, 1925. By the (English) Law of Property (Amendment) Act, 1926, s. 4, persons intending to register a charge, instrument or matter under the Land Charges Act, 1925, may give notice at the (English) Land Charges Department of the Land Registry at least two days before the registration, and the effect of the notice is to relate the date of registration of the charge, instrument or matter as provided by s. 4 if the application to register is presented within fourteen days after the date of entry of notice, and refers to the notice: thus protecting the person intending to register from incumbrances created subsequently to the notice and before application to register.A form of notice providing temporary protection for an application about to be made for first registra-tion of land at the Land Registry (see (English) Land Registration Rules, 1925); also a notice protecting the priority of an intended dealing in registered land; the ...
Bankruptcy notice
Bankruptcy notice, a notice (taking the place of the 'debtor's summons' (see that title) under the (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1869) to pay a judgment debt for any amount, non-compliance with which notice within a limited time amounts, by s. 1(1)(g) of the (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1914, to an 'act of bankruptcy.' The notice may be given by any creditor who has obtained a 'final judgment' or 'final order,' and if the debtor does not within seven days of service of the notice, if served in England, either comply with its requirements or satisfy the Court that he has a cross demand equalling or exceeding the judgment debt, and which he could not set up in the action in which judgment was obtained, he commits an 'act of bankruptcy' (see that title). Two or more debts cannot be included in one notice. A substantial defect in the notice cannot be amended [Re a Debtor, 1908 (2) KB 684]....
race-notice
race-notice [race from the notion of two parties rushing to the courthouse in order to be the first to record a claim or interest on the same property] : of, relating to, or being a recording act which stipulates that an unrecorded deed, mortgage, or lien shall not be valid against a recorded one unless the recording party (as a subsequent purchaser from the same seller) had notice of the interest or claim of the other party when recording compare notice, pure race NOTE: If one party purchases a property and records the deed, a subsequent purchaser is normally held to know about it — to have “constructive notice” of it — as a matter of law since it is a matter of public record. Under a race-notice statute, however, a subsequent purchaser cannot have constructive notice of an unrecorded deed, and so the recorded deed has priority unless the purchaser actually knew about — had “actual notice” of — the unrecorded deed. ...
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