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Trespasser
Trespasser, referred. [Transfer of Property Act, 1882 (15 of 1882), s. 45] One who commits a trespass. In general a person owes no duty to a trespasser, the rule being that a man trespasses at his...
Treason
Treason [fr. trahir, Fr., to betray; proditio, Lat.], or leze-majesty, an offence against the duty of allegiance, and the highest known crime, for it aims at the very destruction of the commonwealth itself. Five species of...
Traveller
Traveller. Under the (English) Licensing (Con-solidation) Act, 1910, s. 61 (see INTOXICATING LIQUORS), intoxicating liquors were not to be sold at certain hours except to 'bon' fide travellers,' and by s. 61 (3) a person was...
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Subject
Subject (logic), that concerning which the affirmation in a proposition is made; the first word in a proposition, Mill's Logic. See PREDICATE. 1. One who owes allegiance to a sovereign and is governed by that sovereign's...
Service
Service [fr. servitium, Lat.], that duty which a tenant, by reason of his estate, owes to his lord. There are many divisions of this duty in our ancient law books, as into personal and real, which...
Self-dealing
Self-dealing, means the participation in a transaction that benefits oneself instead of another who is owed a fiduciary duty, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1364
Rejected
Rejected, in a hierarchical system of courts which exists in our country, all courts and tribunals including the High Court exercising judicial and quasi-judicial functions owe it a duty to pass reasoned orders. There is a...
Quantum tenens domino ex homagio, tantum dominus tenenti ex dominio debet pr'ter solam reverentiam; mutua debet esse dominii et homagii fidelitatis connexio
Quantum tenens domino ex homagio, tantum dominus tenenti ex dominio debet pr'ter solam reverentiam; mutua debet esse dominii et homagii fidelitatis connexio. Co. Litt. 64, (As much as the tenant by his homage owes to his...
Net wealth tax
Net wealth tax, readings on Taxation in Developing, Countries by Fird and Oldman elucidates the concept of Wealth Tax as follows, at page 281: 'The term 'net wealth tax' is therefore deemed to be imposed on...
Public servant
Public servant, has the same meaning as in s. 21 of the Indian Penal Code. [Arms Act, 1959 (54 of 1959), s. 2(1)(j)] Public servant has the same meaning as in s. 21 of the Indian...
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