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Personal use, means a close scrutiny of the context in which the expression occurs shows that only those effects can legitimately be said to be personal which pertain to the assessee's person; in other words, an intimate connection between the effects and the person of the assessee must be shown to exist to render the 'personal effects'. The enumera-tion of articles like wearing apparel, jewellery and furniture, mentioned by way of illustrations in the above definition of 'personal effects', also shows that the legislature intended only those articles to be included in the definition which were intimately and commonly used the assessee, Random House Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged Edn., p. 1075.Means article associated with person as property having more or less intimate relation to person of possessor, Black's Law Dictionary, 4th Edn., p. 1301....
Tangible personal property
Tangible personal property, means personal property which may be seen, weighed, measured, felt or touched, or is in any other manner perceptible to the senses. The term 'tangible personal property' shall not include stocks, bonds, notes or other obligations or securities, South Central Bell Telephone Co. v. Sidney J. Barthelemy, 643 So 2d 1240: 36 ALR 5th 689....
Under any customary or personal law applicable to parties
Under any customary or personal law applicable to parties, the purpose of the payment 'under any customary or personal law' must be to obviate destitution of the divorcee and to provide her with wherewithal to maintain herself. The whole scheme of s. 127(3)(b) is manifestly to recognise the substitute maintenance arrangement by lump sum payment organised by the custom of the community or the personal law of the parties. There must be a rational relation between the sum so paid and its potential as provision for main-tenance; to interpret otherwise is to stultify the project. Law is dynamic and its meaning cannot be pedantic but purposeful, Bai Tahira v. A.C. Hussain Fiddali Chathia, (1979) 2 SCC 316: AIR 1979 SC 362 (365). [Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, s. 127(3)(b)]...
Personal character and conduct
Personal character and conduct, dealing with meaning of the expression 'personal character and conduct' found in s. 123(4), Subba Rao, J., speaking for the Court in T.K. Gangi Reddy v. M.C. Anjaneya Reddy (XXII, ELF 266) observed at p. 266 of the report: 'the words 'personal character or conduct' are so clear that they do not require further elucidation or definition. The character of a person may ordinarily be equated with his mental or moral nature, conduct connotes a person's actions or behaviors', Guruji Shrihari Baliram Jivatode v. Vithalrao, AIR 1970 SC 1841: (1969) 1 SCC 82: (1969) 2 SCR 766; see also B.P. Maurya v. Prakash Vir Shastri, (1969) 2 SCC 634: AIR 1970 SC 522....
Personal rights
Personal rights, the rights of personal security, com-prising those of life, limb, body, health, reputation, and the right of personal liberty....
toxic tort
toxic tort : a tort in which there is personal injury or property damage due to exposure to toxic substances ...
personal representative
personal representative : one recognized as the representative of another party or his or her interests ;specif : an executor or administrator who may bring or be subject to an action or proceeding for or against a deceased person and his or her estate [when a person who has brought an action for personal injury dies pending the action, such action may be revived in the name of his personal representative "Code of Virginia"] ...
Personal injuries
Personal injuries, do not mean injuries to the body alone but all injuries to a person other than those which cause death and that the relevant words must be read ejusdem generis with the words 'defamation and assault' and not with the assault alone, M. Veerappa v. Evelyn Sequeira, AIR 1988 SC 506: (1988) 1 SCC 556. [Indian Succession Act, 1925, s. 306]Personal injuries, includes any disease and any impairment of a person's physical or mental condition. [Interest Act, 1978, s. 2 (d)]...
Tort feaser
Tort feaser, means who commits a tort; a wrong-doer, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1497...
Special personal representatives
Special personal representatives. The name given to the personal representatives of a tenant for life in connection with settled land which has been settled otherwise than by his will or by way of trust for sale. They should be the trustees of the settlement and their duties are to convey the land to the tenant for life or statutory owner entitled upon the death of the testator subject to provision by them for death duties (see Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 16). If there is no appointment to that effect the testator will be deemed to have appointed the trustees of the settlement as the special representatives. Upon an intestacy, probate may and should be granted to them for the purposes [see (English) Settled Land Act, 1925, s. 7 (1), and (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925, ss. 22 to 24]. If the settlement has come to an end with the testator's death, these provisions do not apply, Bridgett and Hayes' Contract, 1928 Ch 163....
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