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Perpetuity

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

Piracy [fr. pirata, Lat.], the commission of those acts of robbery and violence upon the sea, which if committed upon...

Public order, expression 'public order' has a distinct corrodation. Investigation into the offence under the Essential Commodities Act, may not...

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Office of profit, a person who was a Pramukh at the time of filing of nomination papers and who was...

Executory devise. Mr. Fearne (Cont. Rem. 386) defines an executory devise to be, strictly, such a limitation of a future...

Not proceeding from true source, 'not proceeding from true source' only mean that the thing is not what it pretends...

Adultery [ad. Lat., and alter, another person], anciently termed Advowtry (quasi ad alterius thorum). The sin of incontinence between two...

Cause of action, a cause of action is a bundle of facts which are required to be pleaded and proved...

Costs, expenses incurred in litigation or professional transactions, consisting of money paid for stamps, etc., to the officers of the...

Fee-simple, a freehold estate of inheritance, absolute and unqualified. It stands at the head of estates as the highest in...

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