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recoupment

b : a reduction in damages because of a demand by the defendant arising out of the same occurrence or transaction c : the right of a defendant to have the claim of the plaintiff reduced or

Charging event and taxable event

Charging event and taxable event, The charging event is the event the occurrence of which immediately attracts the charge. Taxable event cannot be postponed to the occurrence of the subsequent condition.

Child

of age of accused as assessed by trial court was fifteen or sixteen years on the date of occurrence. Held, on the date of occurrence, the appellant was child with in the meaning of s. 2(4). Therefore

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Day

commences. If anything is to be done within a certain time, of, from, or after the doing or occurrence of something else, the day on which the first act or occurrence takes place is to be excluded

Alibi

702 (712). It is a convenient term used for the defence taken by an accused that when the occurrence took place he was so far away from the place of occurrence that it is highly improbable that

Accident, Accidental

Accident, Accidental, an accident is not the same as an occurrence, but something that happens out of the normal or ordinary course of things. An effect is said to

interest

[a beneficial interest in the trust] contingent interest : a future interest whose vesting is dependent upon the occurrence or nonoccurrence of a future event compare vested interest in this entry controlling interest : sufficient stock ownership

impracticability

performance at impossibility NOTE: Under section 2-615 of the Uniform Commercial Code, the impracticability must arise “by the occurrence of contingency the non-occurrence of which was a basic assumption on which the contract was made” or by

fee simple

United States except in South Carolina. fee simple determinable : a defeasible fee that automatically terminates upon the occurrence of a specified event or condition and which reverts to the grantor compare estate on condition at estate

Newly set up establishment

c. 8), s. 1 (1) (c); and see SEDITION. It means tidings, new information of recent events; new occurrences as a subject of report or talk, All India Reporter Karmachari Sangh v. All India Reporter Ltd., AIR

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