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Home Dictionary Name: persons Page: 6Any person interested in a wakf
Any person interested in a wakf, the expression 'any person interested in a waqf' must mean 'any person interested in what is held to be a waqf'. It is only persons who are interested in a transaction which is held to be a waqf who would sue for a declaration that the decision of the Commissioner of the Waqfs in the behalf is wrong, and that the transaction in fact is not a waqf under the Act, Siraj-ul-Haq Khan v. Sunni Control Board of Wakf., AIR 1959 SC 198 (204). [U.P. Muslim Wakfs Act, 1936 (13 of 1936), s. 5(2)]...
juridical person
juridical person in the civil law of Louisiana : an entity (as a partnership or corporation) that is given rights and responsibilities compare natural person NOTE: The rights and responsibilities of a juridical person are distinct from those of the natural persons constituting it. ...
natural person
natural person : a human being as distinguished from a person (as a corporation) created by operation of law compare juridical person, legal person ...
Accused person
Accused person, The expression, 'accused person' in s. 24 of the Evidence Act, 1872 and the expression 'a person accused of any offence' have the same connotation, and describe the person against whom evidence is sought to be led in a criminal proceeding. It does not predicate a formal accusation against him at the time of making the statement sought to be proved, as a condition of its applicability, State of U.P. v. Deoman Upadhyaya, AIR 1960 SC 1125 (para 7): 1961 (1) SCR 14....
reasonable person
reasonable person : a fictional person with an ordinary degree of reason, prudence, care, foresight, or intelligence whose conduct, conclusion, or expectation in relation to a particular circumstance or fact is used as an objective standard by which to measure or determine something (as the existence of negligence) [we have generally held that a reasonable person would not believe that he or she has been seized when an officer merely approaches that person in a public place and begins to ask questions "State v. Cripps, 533 N.W.2d 388 (1995)"] called also reasonable man ...
Any Person present in the court
Any Person present in the court, the words 'any person present in the court' in s. 73 has a reference only to such persons who are parties to a cause pending before the court and in a given case may even include the witnesses in the said cause but where there is no cause pending before the court for its determination, the question of obtaining for the purposes of comparison of the handwriting of a person may not arise at all and therefore, the provisions of s. 73 of the Evidence Act would have no application, Sukhvinder Singh v. State of Punjab, (1994) 5 SCC 152 (163): 1994 SCC (Cri) 1376. (Evidence Act, 1872, s. 73)...
Cargo and personal luggage
Cargo and personal luggage, the term 'cargo' when it occurs in the notification of the Reserve Bank is that it is used as contra-distinguished from personal luggage in the law relating to the carriage of goods. The latter has been defined as whatever a passenger takes with him for his personal use or convenience, either with reference to his immediate necessities or for his personal needs at the end of his journey, State of Maharashtra v. Mayer Hans George, (1965) 1 SCR 123: AIR 1965 SC 722 (727). [Foreign Excahnge Regulation Act (7 of 1947), s. 8(1)]...
Dangerous person
Dangerous person, 'dangerous person' means a person, who either by himself or as a member of or leader of a gang, habitually commits, or attempts to commit or abets the commission of offences, punishable under Chapter XVI or Chapter XVII or Chapter XXII of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860), or any of the offences punishable under Chapter V of the Arms Act, 1959 (54 of 1959); Rashidmiya alias Chhava Ahmedmiya v. Police Commissioner (1989) 3 SCC 321:AIR 1989 SC 1703 (1706).Means a person who habitually commits or attempts to commit or abets commission of offences, either by himself or as a member of or leader of a gang, Ayub v. S.N. Sinha, AIR 1990 SC 2069 (2071). [Gujarat Prevention of Anti-Social Activities Act (16 of 1985), s. 2(c)]...
Executor de son tort.
Executor de son tort. See (English) A.E. Act, 1925, ss. 28, 29, and s. 55(1)(xi.). If a stranger take upon himself to act as executor or administrator (see 14 Halsbury's L. of E., 2nd Edn., para. 282), without any just authority (as by intermeddling with the goods of the deceased, and any other transactions), he is called in Law an executor of his own wrong, de son tort, and is liable to the extent of the assets which have come to him and to all the trouble of an executorship without any of the profits or advantages; but the doing of acts of necessity or humanity, as locking up the goods or burying the corpse of the deceased, will not amount to such an intermeddling as will charge a man as executor of his own wrong. Such an one cannot bring an action himself in right of the deceased; but actions may be brought against him, 1 Wms. Exors.; and see Peters v. Leeder, (1878) 47 LJ QB 573; A.-G. v. New York Breweries Co., 1899 AC 62. As to his liability in respect of a term of years of which...
Person in occupation of property
Person in occupation of property, the expression 'person in occupation of the property' in s. 269D (2) (a) includes every person including a contractual or a statutory tenant, Rambai Manjunath Nayak v. Union of India, AIR 1993 SC 342 (350): (1994) 1 SCC 742: (1942) Tax LR 50: (1993) 49 DLT 1. [Income-tax Act, 1961, s. 269D(2)(a)]...
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