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Priority

determined accord-ing to the date of receipt of notice by the persons who are for the time being owners of the legal interest in the property assigned. Before 1926 the notice might be verbal; after 1926 it

Precarium

Precarium, a contract by which the owner of a thing, at another's request, gives him the thing to use as long as the owner shall

Squatter

on land enclosed with no bona fide claim or color of title and without the consent of the owner, AIR 1968 Punj 470 (473). (Motor Vehicles Act, 1939, s. 76) If a squatter wrongfully encloses a bit

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Pro forma defendant

A pro forma defendant is a defendant named as a matter of formality, who typically has no direct responsibility for the harm alleged, but shares an interest with other defendants, such as being a co-owner of...

Time Charter-party

Time Charter-party, a time charter, is 'one in which the ownership and also possession of the ship remain in the original owner whose remuneration or hire is generally calculated

Malik and 'Malik kamil

Malik and 'Malik kamil, the word 'Malik' is not a term of art implying full proprietary ownership free from any limitation. On the contrary, it is a term which has to be interpreted according to

Zamindar

Zamindar, a 'zamindar' is presumed to be the owner of the underground rights in the tenancies created by him in the absence of evidence that he ever

Wreck

Olympic, 1913 P. 92. The old distinction appears to be that if property could be identified by its owner it was not wreck, i.e., property which the Crown could claim as part of its prerogative, Hals. L.E.,

Water and watercourse

which it stands, unless perhaps in the case of salt pits or springs, where the interest of each owner is measured by builleries, ballaries or buckets of brine, Burt. Comp. pl. (550), and see Co. Litt. 4

Vesting instrument

evidence under the (English) Settled Land Act, 1925, of the title of a tenant for life or statutory owner to the legal estate in settled property as estate owner thereof. This evidence is essential for the settlement

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