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Possession

Soorajmal v. State of Madhya Pradesh, (1992) Cr LJ 3206. Possession, need not be actual, physical possession or personal occupation, but may be possession in law. 'Possession' means 'the state of owning or having in one's hands … 238. The possession of a firearm under the Arms Act must have, firstly the element of consciousness or knowledge of that possession in the person charged with such offence and secondly where he has not the actual

Trespass

is a transgression of law or right, and a trespasser is a person entering premises of another with knowledge that his entrance is in excess of the permission that has been given to him, Kewal Chand Mimani … transgression of the law, less than treason, felony, or misprision of either. An unlawful act committed against the person or property of another esp. wrongful entry on another's real property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn. The action

Bailment

(2000) 7 SCC 264 (272): AIR 2000 SC 2912. (Contract Act, 1872, s. 148) Means a delivery of personal property by one person (the bailor) to another (the bailee) who holds the property for a certain purpose … between a person and the thing in his charge. It is sufficient if that possession is within the knowledge of the person concerned. It follows that a bailment may very well exist without the creation of a

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Office of profit

person, who may hold it. Cases are known, in which, in order to make use of the Special knowledge, talent, skill or experience of certain persons, posts are created, which exist only for so long as they … Office of profit, a person who was a Pramukh at the time of filing of nomination papers and who was drawing a honorarium

Bribe

the agent from the third person with whom the agent is dealing on his principal's behalf without the knowledge or consent of the principal or which was no contemplated by the principal at the creation of the … Bribe, a fit to any person in office or holding a position of trust, with the object of inducing him to disregard his official

Notice

he has notice of the trust, and under the (English) Trustee Act, 1925, s. 28, a trustee or personal representative acting for one trust or estate is not in the absence of fraud affected by notice obtained … of which he was or might be ignorant. Notice is either (1) statutory; (2) actual, which brings the knowledge of a fact directly home to the party; or (3) constructive or implied, which is no more than

Contract labour

principal employer. [Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 (37 of 1970), s. 2 (1) (b)] Means any person engaged or employed in any premises by or through a contractor, with or without the knowledge of the

Witness, examination of

Witness, examination of, means interrogation or questioning of a witness to elicit his personal knowledge as to one or more facts, Dictionary of Law, Willium C. Anderson, 1899, p. 424.

From

the merit of an action depends on the principle from which it proceeds men judge of facts from personal knowledge or from testimony

Believe

truth of upon evidence furnished by reasons arguments and deductions of the mind or by circumstances other than personal knowledge to regard or accept as true to place confidence in to think to consider as to believe a

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