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Managing agent

extent, if any, otherwise provided for in the agreement, and includes any person, firm or company occupying such position by whatever name called. Explanation.--If a person occupying the position of managing agents calls himself manager or managing

Material alteration

Material alteration, A material alteration is one which varies the rights, liabilities, or legal position of the parties as ascertained by the deed in its original state, or otherwise varies the legal effect

Misfeasance and non-feasance

between misfeasance (positive action) and non-feasance (omission). Misfeasance is wilful, reckless or heedless conduct in commission of a positive act lawfully done but with improper conduct. Non-feasance means non-performance of some act which ought to be performed

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Subordinate

800. (Indian Penal Code, 1860, s. 165) 1. Placed in or belonging to a lower rank, class or position. 2. Subject to another's authority or control, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1439. Subordinate, is not a

Rank

Rank, refers to a position, especially an official one, within a social organization, of high social order or other standing status, S.C. Advocate-on-Record

Resignation

legal art having legal connotations which describe certain legal results. It is characteristically, the voluntary surrender of a position by the person on resigning, made freely and not under duress and the word is generally defined as

Shebaitship

with all its temporal affairs and to manage its property. As regards the administration of the debutter, his position is analogous to that of a trustee; yet, he is not precisely in the position of a trustee

Status

Status. The legal position or condition of a person. in Roman law this term indicated the position of a persona. A full

Use

not moving and is stationary, being either parked on the road and when it is not in a position to move due to some breakdown or mechanical defect, Shivaji Dayana Patil v. Vatschala Uttam More, AIR 1991

Witness

must be understood in its natural sense, i.e., as referring to a person who furnishes evidence. Indeed, every positive volitional act which furnishes evidence is testimony, and testimonial compulsion connotes coercion which procures the positive volitional evidentiary

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