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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

Earl

IV., Second Part, Act 2, sc. 2), and took this public notice of it as a means of popularity. A title of nobility, formerly the highest in England but now the third highest ranking between marquis and

Entrenched clause

clauses in their Constitutions. The process of amending entrenched clauses varies with each Constitution and may involve a popular referendum, a fixed Parliamentary majority of two-thirds or more a system of delayed legislation or a combination of

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Folc-mote or folk-mote

general assembly of the people to consider of an order matters concerning the commonwealth; also any kind of popular or public meeting, Somner; Spelm.; Brady's Glos. 48; Termes de la ley.

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,

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

Food colours and syrup essences

under the U.P. Sales Tax Act, 1948 have to be construed in the sense in which they are popularly understood by those who deal in them and who purchase and use them, Commissioner of Sales Tax v.

Good faith

U.P. Imposition of Ceiling on Land Holdings Act, 1960. The expression has several shades of meaning. In the popular sense, the phrase 'in good faith' simply means 'honestly, without fraud, collusion or deceit; really, actually, without pretence

Harmonious construction

of the Legislature. If an expression is susceptible of a narrow or technical meaning, as well as a popular meaning the Court would be justified in assuming that the Legislature used the expression in the sense which

Hire-purchase agreement

the customer and the dealer used to extend credit to the customer. But as hire-purchase scheme gained in popularity and in size, the dealers who were not endowed with liberal amount of working capital found it difficult

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