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Home Dictionary Name: personalityPersonality of laws
Personality of laws. By the personality of laws, foreign jurists generally mean all laws concerning the condition, state, and capacity of persons; by the reality of laws, all laws which concern property of things; qu' ad rem spectant. Whenever they wish to express that the operation of a law is universal, they compendiously announce that it is a personal statute; and whenever, on the other hand, they wish to express that its operation is confined to the country of its origin, they simply declare it to be a real statute, Story's Confl. Of Laws, 8th Edn. p. 20....
legal personality
legal personality : the quality or state of being a legal person ...
personality
personality pl: -ties 1 : the quality, state, or fact of being a person [the corporation has legal ] 2 : the totality of an individual's behavioral and emotional characteristics [a disorder] ...
Personal effects
Personal effects, generally include such tangible property as is worn or carried about the person, or to designate articles associated with the person. Personal effects are used to designate articles associated with person, as property having more or less intimate relation to person of possessor, or such tangible property as attends the person, Words and Phrases, Permanent Edn., Vol. 31, p. 277.In the unabridged edition of the Random House Dictionary of the English Language, at page 1075, the expression is given the following meaning: Personal effects, privately owned articles consisting chiefly of clothing, toilet items, etc., for intimate use by an individual. In Black's Law Dictionary, Fourth Edition, at page 1301, the expression is assigned the following meaning: Personal effects, articles associated with person, as property having more or less intimate relation to person of possessor. In Cyclopedic Law Dictionary, Third Edition, at page 832, the expression 'personal effects' witho...
Tort
Tort [fr. tortus, Lat.], an injury or wrong independent of contract, as by assault, libel, malicious prosecution, negligence, slander, or trespass (see those titles). Actions are divided into actions in contract and actions in tort: see as to county Court jurisdiction in actions of tort when claim is under 100l. (except libel, slander seduction). See County Courts Act, 1934, s. 40, and as to costs of actions of tort commenced in High Court which could have been commenced in County Court, see s. 47, and COUNTY COURT. An action founded on tort was Tort [fr. tortus, Lat.], an injury or wrong independent of contract, as by assault, libel, malicious prosecution, negligence, slander, or trespass (see those titles). Actions are divided into actions in contract and actions in tort: see as to county Court jurisdiction in actions of tort when claim is under 100l. (except libel, slander seduction). See County Courts Act, 1934, s. 40, and as to costs of actions of tort commenced in High Court whic...
Person interested
Person interested, includes a person engaged in, or in promoting, research in the same field as that to which the invention relates. [Patents Act, 1970 (39 of 1970), s. 2(t)]The definition of the 'person interested' must be liberally construed so as to include a body, local authority, or a company for whose benefit the land is acquired and who is bound under an agreement to pay the compensation, Himalaya Tiles and Merbles (P) Ltd. v. Francis Victor Countinho, AIR 1980 SC 1118 (1120): (1980) 3 SCC 233: (1980) 3 SCR 235. [Land Acquisition Act, 1844, s. 18]The expression 'person interested' included all persons claiming an interest in compensation to be made on account of the acquisition of land under this Act; and a person shall be deemed to be interested in land if he is interested in an easement affecting the land, General Government Servants Cooperative Housing Society Ltd. v. Wahaz Uddin, AIR 1981 SC 866 (867, 868): (1981) 2 SCC 352: (1981) 3 SCR 46.A person claiming interest in the ...
Personal property
Personal property, money, goods, cattle, chattels, stocks, shares, securities, debts, etc., and also leases for years, however long. Personal property is either in possession, or in action, where a man has not the actual occupation of the thing, but only a right to it arising upon some contract, and recoverable by an action at law.Any person may assign personal property, including chattels real, directly to himself and another person or other persons or corporation, by the like means as he might assign the same to another, Law of Property Amendment Act, 1859, s. 21.This was extended by the (English) Emergency Act, 1881, to conveyances of freehold land or choses in action by a husband to a wife or e contra. Now, by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 72, a person may convey real or personal property to himself alone.In the case of real property there can be no such thing as an absolute ownership in the subject-matter, i.e., land; the utmost that any one, even an owner in fee sim...
Any person
Any person, the effect of the 1994 amendment on s. 147 is unambiguous. Where earlier, the words 'any person' could be held not to include the owner of the goods or his authorised representative travelling in the goods vehicle, Parliament has now made it clear that such a construction is no longer possible. The scope of this rationale does not, however, extend to cover the class of cases where gratuitous passengers for whom no insurance policy was envisaged, and for whom no insurance premium was paid, employed the goods vehicle as a medium of conveyance, National Insurance Co. Ltd. v. Baljit Kaur, (2004) 2 SCC 1 (5): AIR 2004 SC 1340. [Motor Vehicles Act, s. 147(1)(b) (as amended in 1994)]The expression 'any person' can be restricted to those on the managerial or administrative staff only. One cannot arbitrarily cut down the amplitude of an expression used by the legislature, Central Bank of India v. Workmen, AIR 1960 SC 12 (23): (1960) 1 SCR 200. (Banking Regulation Act, 1949, s. 10)Th...
Assent of personal representatives
Assent of personal representatives, At Common Law the personal estate passing by the will of a deceased person, including chattels real vested in the executor, virtute officii. The property passed to the legatee as soon as the executors assented to the bequest. The transfer was made not by the mere force of the assent but by virtue of the will, Attenborough v. Solomon, 1912 AC 76, and the assent might be given to one executor. No formalities were required. The assent might be implied, for instance, in the case of lease holds, by letting the person entitled into possession or the receipt of rent and profits, but the assent was required to be definite and unambiguous. When given it related back to the date of death and as a rule it could not be withdrawn [but see Whittaker v. Kershaw (1890), 45 CD 320]. This is still the law in regard to pure personalty, excluding chattels real. Before the (English) Land Transfer Act, 1897 (60 & 61 Vict. c. 65) real estate passed to the heir-at-law of th...
Person aggrieved
Person aggrieved, does not include a mere busy-body, but refers to one who has a genuine grievance on account of some order prejudicially affecting his interests, K.C. Pazhanimala v. State of Kerala, AIR 1969 Ker 154: (1968) ILR 2 Ker 422; P.S.R. Sadanatham v. Arunachalam, (1980) SCC (Cr) 649; V.D. Kumarappan v. Secy, Home Department, AIR 1960 Ker 378; Ashok Autoservice of Belim v. Union of India, AIR 1968 Goa 67; Ebrahim Aboobaker v. Custodian General of Evacuee Property, AIR 1952 SC 319; Custodian of Evacuees Property v. Ahad Noga, AIR 1957 J&K 50.If a person is a member of a society and is wrongfully excluded, then he is a 'person aggrieved', Chapadgaon Vividh Karyakan Seva Sahakari Society, Chapadgaon v. Collector of Ahmednagar, (1989) 3 Bom CR 641 [Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act, 1960, s. 144]; Adi Pherozshab Gandhi v. H.M. Seervai, AIR 1971 SC 385; Mohammed Sharfuddin v. R.P. Singh, AIR 1957 Pat 235; Northern Plastics Ltd. v. Hindustan Photo Film Mfg. Co. Ltd., (1997) 4 S...
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