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Home Dictionary Name: ostensiblyostensible agency
ostensible agency see agency ...
ostensible agent
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ostensible authority
ostensible authority see authority ...
ostensible ownership
ostensible ownership see ownership ...
Ostensibility
The quality or state of being ostensible...
Ostensibly
In an ostensible manner avowedly professedly apparently...
Ostensively
In an ostensive manner...
ownership
ownership : the state, relation, or fact of being an owner ;also : the rights or interests of an owner [reduced their by one third] absolute ownership : ownership esp. by a single person that is free of any encumbrances or limitations other than statutory law compare fee simple absolute at fee simple os·ten·si·ble ownership [Ä -sten-sə-bəl] : ownership that is apparent rather than actual and that sometimes is recognized in cases of purchase of the property by an innocent third party [a dispute arising from the dealer's ostensible ownership and sale of the collateral] NOTE: A purchaser from a person with ostensible ownership of property may be able to defeat the claim to the property of the actual owner who created the ostensible ownership. ownership in in·di·vi·sion in the civil law of Louisiana : ownership by two or more persons each having undivided shares in the property as a whole compare community property at property NOTE: Own...
authority
authority pl: -ties 1 : an official decision of a court used esp. as a precedent 2 a : a power to act esp. over others that derives from status, position, or office [the of the president] ;also : jurisdiction b : the power to act that is officially or formally granted (as by statute, corporate bylaw, or court order) [within the scope of the treasurer's ] [police officers executing a warrant…are not required to “knock and announce” their and purposes before entering "National Law Journal"] c : power and capacity to act granted by someone in a position of control ;specif : the power to act granted by a principal to his or her agent actual authority : the authority that a principal in reality has granted to an agent actual express authority : the actual authority of an agent specifically stated or written by the principal actual implied authority : the actual authority of an agent that the principal has not specified but has purposely or through negligence a...
Benamidar
Benamidar, a benamidar is an ostensible owner and if a person purchases from a benamidar, the real owner cannot recover unless he shows that the purchaser had actual or constructive notice of the real title. But from this it does not follow that the benamidar has real title to the property, he is merely an ostensible owner thereof, Controller of Estate Duty v. Aloke Mitra, AIR 1981 SC 102 (111): (1981) 2 SCC 121. [Estate Duty Act, 34 of 1953]...
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