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Doctor and student

book, published in 1518, in Latin, and in English in 1530. The book consists of two dialogues, in popular style between a Doctor of Divinity and a Student of the Common Law

distribution or dealing; a portion or lot; a boundary mark, e.g., a post or mound of earth; also popularly employed to denote sums to which unemployed persons are entitled under the Unemployment Insurance Acts. In Scottish Criminal

Double or treble costs

were repealed by the (English) Limitations of Actions and Costs Act, 1842 (5 & 6 Vict. c. 97), popularly called 'Pollock's Act,' which enacted that the successful party should be entitled only to full and reasonable costs,

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Kept

the word 'kept' has not been defined in the Taxation Act. Therefore, to interpret it in its ordinary popular sense, consistently with the context. The word 'kept' has been repeatedly used in the s.. In sub-s. (1),

Double taxation

often used in different senses, namely, in its strict legal sense of direct double taxation and in its popular sense of indirect double taxation. Double taxation in the strict legal sense means taxing the same property or

Drunkenness

v. Briggs, (1909) 1 KB 381, and HABITUAL DRUNKARD]. Black List.--The 'black list' above spoken of is the popular term for the list which a licensed person would, probably for his own purposes, frame on receiving notice

Fashion

Fashion, includes a popular trend or a life-style, specially in styles of dress and ornament or manners of behaviour or the business

Jaghire, Jaghur, Jagir

Himmat Singhji v. State of Rajasthan, (1987) 1 SCC 52: AIR 1987 SC 82 (86). Both in its popular sense and legislative practice, the word 'jagir' is used as connoting State grants which conferred on the grantees

Financial non-viability

a taxing statute in the context of amalgamation of companies it will have to be understood in its popular sense, that is to say, the sense or meaning that is attributed to it by men of business,

Distinct matters and descriptions

Distinct matters and descriptions, in its popular sense, the expression 'distinct matters' would connote something different from distinct 'categories'. Two transactions might be of the

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