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Malice

Crim. Pleading and Practice, sub tit. 'Homicide,' and MANSLAUGHTER. In the law of defamation the defence that the occasion was privileged (i.e., one of qualified privilege) may be rebutted by establishing actual malice in the defendant, for

Reserve

the word 'Reserve' is: To keep for future use or enjoyment; to store up for some time or occasion; to refrain from using or enjoying at once. To keep back or hold over to a later time

Sale or purchase of goods shall be deemed....inter-State trade or commerce

have taken place in the course of inter-State trade, if it can be shown that the sale has occasioned the movement of goods from one State to another. A sale in the course of inter-State trade has

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Sales in the course of import

to take place in the course of inter-State trade or commerce if the sale or purchase - (a) occasions the movement of goods from one State to another; or (b) is effected by a transfer of documents

Actual bodily harm

Actual bodily harm. 'An assault occasioning actual bodily harm' is an offence within s. 47 of the Offences against the Person Act, 1861 (English).

Collision of ships

the first place, it may happen without blame being imputable to either party: as where the loss is occasioned by a storm or any other vis major, in that case the misfortune must be borne by the

Habitually

Activities Act (16 of 1985), s. 2(c)] The word 'habitually' does not defer to the fre-quency of the occasions but to the invariably of a Practice and habit has to be proved by totality of facts. It,

Public policy

Rules of public policy do not belong to a fixed or customary law; they are capable on proper occasions of expansion and modification, Circumstances may change and make a commercial practice expedient which was formerly mischievous to

Sale in the course of inter-State trade

State of Bombay v. United Motors (India) Ltd., AIR 1953 SC 252: (1953) SCR 1069. A sale which occasions movement of goods from one State to another is a sale in the course of inter-State trade, no

Morganatic marriage

the concubines of Charlemagne and the early kings of France were wives of this description, nor is there occasion to resort to that supposition in defence of their conduct, since the state of concubinage itself was little

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