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Fatuous persons, idiots.Includes express reference to 'breach of statutory duty' and to 'liability in tort', Standard Chartered Bank v. Pakistan Shipping Corpn. (No. 4) (CA), (2000) 3 WLR 1692.Means negligence, breach of statutory duty or other act or omission, Standard Chartered Bank v. Pakistan Shipping Corpn. [HL(E), (2000) 3 WLR 1547: (2002) UKHL 43.Relates to the conduct of the defendant - in other words, as it relates to the plainiff's cause of action, Rowe v. Turner Hopkins & Partners, (1980) 2 NZLR 550; See also Standard Chartered Bank v. Pakistan Shipping Corpn., (2001) LR (QB) 167 (CA)....
Bangladesh
An independent Asian country on teh Bay of Bengal that was once part of India and then part of Pakistan called East Pakistan...
Displaced person
Displaced person, According to the definition of the term in East Punjab Act XXXVI of 1949, a 'displaced person' means 'a landholder in the territories now comprised in the Province of Punjab in Pakistan or a person of the Punjab extraction who holds land in the (West Pakistan) and who has since the last day of March 1947, abandoned or has been made to abandon his land in the said territories on account of civil disturbances or the fear of such distur-bances, or the partition of the country', Munshi Ram v. Financial Commissioner, (1979) 1 SCC 471: AIR 1979 SC 588: (1979) 2 SCR 846.Displaced person means any person who, on account of civil disturbances or of the fear of such disturbances in any area now forming part of Bangladesh, has, after the 14th day of April, 1957 but before the 25th day of March, 1971, left, or has been displaced from, his place of residence in such area and who has since then been residing in India. [Pharmacy Act, 1948, s. 32B(1)(c) Expl. (i)]...
Islamabad
The the capital city of Pakistan...
Pakistan
A country in South Asia formerly part of British India...
Pakistani
Of or relating to Pakistan or its people or language as Pakistani mountain passes...
A person of Indian origin
A person of Indian origin. It means an individual (not being a citizen of Pakistan or Bangladesh or Sri Lanka or Afghanistan or China or Iran or Nepal or Bhutan) who-(i) at anytime, held Indian passport; or (ii) who or either of whose father or whose grandfather was a citizen of India by virtue of the Constitution of India or the Citizenship Act, 1955. [Foreign Exchange Management (Acquisition and Transfer of Immovable Property in India) Regulations, 2000, R. 2 (c)]...
Acquired territories
Acquired territories, 'acquired territories' mean so much of the territories comprised in the Indo-Pakistan agreements and referred to in the First Schedule as are demarcated for the purpose of being acquired by India in pursuance of the said agreements. [Acquired Territories (Merger) Act, (64 of 1960), s. 2(a)]...
Administration
Administration, the giving or supplying of something. The term is used in three different senses. (1) granting of letters of administration to an administrator by the Probate Division. (2) The administration of the estate of a deceased person by an executor or administrator, i.e., the payment of his debts and the distribution of his assets among the persons entitled. See ss. 32 et seq., First Sched., Part III., of the (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925, and Re Tony, (1931) 1Ch 202. (3) The administration of the estate by the Chancery Division in cases where difficulties have arisen in the course of administration. Orders for administration by the Chancery Division are made on originating summons, and only by the judge in person. see Trist. And Coote, Prob. Pr.; R. S. C. Ord. LV., rr. 3 et seq.; Seton on Judgments. And see ADMINISTRATOR; WIDOW.The body of ministers appointed by the Crown to carry on the government of the country; now more commonly called 'the Government.'The ...
As if
As if, the expression 'as if' used in s. 58 (2) would mean and imply that the application for renewal must be made in the same manner and to same extent as an application for a fresh permit and must be processes as such, Sher Singh v. Union of India, AIR 1984 SC 200 (205). [Motor Vehicles Act (4 of 1939), s. 58 (2)]The clause 'as if' is not intended to take in cases of territories which are administered with the full knowledge that they do not belong to West Bengal and had to be transferred in due course to Pakistan, Ram Kishore v. Union of India, AIR 1966 SC 644 (648). (Constitution of India, Sch. 1 Entry 17)...
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