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Lost grant

long possession and exercise of user by easement with acquiescence of the owner, that there must have been originally a grant to the claimant, which had been 'lost', Braja Kishore Jagdev v. Lingraj Samantaray, (2000) 6 SCC

Material alteration

which varies the rights, liabilities, or legal position of the parties as ascertained by the deed in its original state, or otherwise varies the legal effect of the instrument as originally expressed, or reduces to certainty some

jurisdiction

claims (as counterclaims and cross-claims) because they arise from a cause of action over which the court has original jurisdiction ;specif : supplemental jurisdiction acquired by a federal court allowing it to adjudicate claims that are based

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Court

485 (490). [Bihar Land Reforms Act (30 of 1950), s. 19] Court, means the principle civil court of original jurisdiction in a district and including the High Court in exercise of the ordinary original civil jurisdiction, having

Hindu

the Indian Empire (p. 686). As Dr. Radhakrishnan has observed; 'The Hindu civilization is so called, since its original founders or earliest followers occupied the territory drained by the Sindhu (the Indus) river system corresponding to the

Manufacture

of changes, take the commodity to the point where commercially it can no longer be regarded as the original commodity but instead is recognised as a new and distinct article that a manufacture can be said to

Tenure

a subject can acquire. As to tenures generally, see 2 Bl. Com. 59 et seq. Without tracing the origin of tenure back into remote antiquity, it is ascertained that there were origin-ally two modes of holding land,

Domicile

and domicile by operation of law. The first is the common case of the place of birth, domicilium originis; the second is that which is voluntarily acquired by a party, proprio Marte; the last is consequential, as

Magna Carta

small island, still called Magna Charta Island, situated in the Thames, not far from Aukerwyke, in Buckinghamshire. Many originals of the great Charter were made, for the purpose of depositing one in every diocese. Two of these

Under-lease

another, called under-lessee, or under-tenant, or sub-lessee, or sub-tenant, of a part of his whole interest under the original lease, reserving to himself a reversion; it differs from an assignment, which conveys the lessee's whole interest, and

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