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naturalize

naturalize -ized -iz·ing : to admit (a person) to citizenship nat·u·ral·iza·tion [na-chə-rə-lə-zā-shən] n … naturalize -ized -iz·ing : to admit (a person) to citizenship nat·u·ral·iza·tion [na-chə-rə-lə-zā-shən] n

Habitatio

Habitatio. The nature of this personal servitude is not obvious. Some jurists confound it with the right to use a house; but Justinian declares

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An ill natured person … An ill natured person

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Physique

The natural constitution or physical structure of a person … The natural constitution or physical structure of a person

Alien

provided, inter alia, that every person born of a British mother should be capable of holding real or personal estate; that alien friends might hold every species of personal property except chattels real; that subjects of a … of Aliens Acts, 1914 and 1933, infra. At common law aliens were subject to very many disqualifications, the nature of which is shown by the (English) Act of 1844, 7 & 8 Vict. c. 66, which greatly

Pawn or Pledge

and chattels; but money, debts, negotiable instruments, choses in action, and indeed any other valuable things of a personal nature, such as patent-rights and manuscripts, may by the Common Law be delivered in pledge. It is not indispensable

Person

Person, the corporate aggregate can be presented persons for offence which are punishable with fine, for in the nature of things, imprisonment of a municipal corporation is out of question, Kalu Singh v. Transport Appellate Tribunal, AIR … with its appropriate coverings and clothing; a living individual unit; a being possessing or forming the subject of personality, Webster's Third New International Dictionary. Means any company or association or body of individuals, whether incorporated or not,

Workman

month or if he performs managerial functions by reason of a power vested in him or by the nature of duties attached to his office, All India Reserve Bank Employees' Association v. Reserve Bank of India, AIR … s. 2(z)] Here includes an employee employed as supervisor. There are only two circumstances in which such a person ceases to be a workman. Such a person is not a workman if he draws wages in excess

Consideration

motive or inducement for a promise or for a transfer of property from one person to another. The nature or quality of the consideration which will be sufficient for these purposes varies with the nature of the … Consideration. Any act of the promisee (the person claiming the benefit of an obligation) from which the promisor (the person burdened with the obligation) or a

Remainder

interests to the persons to whom these limitations are made. These interests (different as they are in their nature), and also a reversion, are with reference to the person by whom the limitations are made, and the … remainders can operate only as equitable interests, and in that manner they can be created in respect of personality as well as realty. The follow-ing explanation of legal remainders has been retained as relating to titles to

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