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Compensation

less than market value is required to be paid for acquiring land held by a person under his personal cultivation which is within the ceiling limit applicable to him under any law for the time being in … the right to compensation is guaranteed by the Constitution or regarded as inextricably involved in the right to property, Rustom Cavasjee Cooper v. Union of India, (1970) 1 SCC 248: AIR 1970 SC 564: (1970) 3 SCR

Bailor

Bailor, means a person who delivers personal property to another, as a bailment, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 137. Means an individual or entity (as … bailment, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 137. Means an individual or entity (as a business organization) placing personal property in the possession of another under a bailment, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 42. Bailor,

Bailee

as to Larceny by Bailee, see (English) Larceny Act, 1916, ss. 1 and 2. The party of whom personal property is delivered under a contract of bailment; one to whom goods are bailed. (Contract Act, 1872, s. 148) … (1983) 3 SCC 458 (467). Means an individual or entity (as a business organization) having possession of another's personal property under a bailment, Webster's Dictionary of Law, p. 41.

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Testament

Testament, a disposition of personal property to take place after the owner's decease, according to his desire and direction. See WILLS. As to the … Sidhan, (2004) 2 SCC 321 (328). [Succession Act, 1925, ss. 57, 58, 59] Means a Will disposing of personal property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1484

levy

or collection of a tax b : the seizure according to a writ of execution of real or personal property in a judgment debtor's possession to satisfy a judgment debt 2 : an amount levied : tax [providing … : to enforce a writ of execution or attachment ;specif : to make a seizure of real or personal property in a judgment debtor's possession [they might as a last resort on his merchandise "J. J. White and

Purchaser

have been the purchaser, unless it shall be proved that he inherited the same (s. 2), Sugd. Real Property Stat. 256. For various meanings of the word 'purchaser,' see the diseenting judgement of Buckley, L.J., in I. … carried further back than the circumstances of the case and the nature of the title shall require, the person last entitled to the land (which expression extends to the last person who had a right thereto, whether

Injury

Injury, any damage done to another, either in his person, rights, reputation, or property, for which an action lies at law. Injury has been defined in s. 44

Conversion, equitable

equitably converted into land descended to the heir upon an intestacy and land converted into money to the personal representatives. The importance of this distinction has been diminished in the case of deaths occurring after 1925, the … realty, and realty directed to be sold and turned into money, are considered inequity as that species of property into which they are directed to be converted; and this, in whatever manner the direction is given; whether

Settlement

of giving possession by legal sanction; a jointure granted to a wife; a disposition of either real or personal property or both for the benefit of one person for his life, and after his death for the benefit

Equity to a settlement (Wife's)

MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY), the law permitted a husband to possess himself absolutely of the whole of his wife's personal property and the rents and profits, during the coverture, of her realty; the consequence of which was that the

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