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Held

Held, the word 'held' means possession of legal and does not require actual connected occupation, Jilubhai Nanbhai Khadhar v. State of Gujarat, 1995 Supp

Owner

subject of a hire-purchase, agreement, or an agreement of lease or an agreement of hypothecation, the person in possession of the vehicle under that agreement. [Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (59 of 1988), s. 2 (30)] Means a

Lease

determinable, but not a lease for life or lives, or (not after 1925) limited to take effect in possession within 21 years as required by the Act; see infra. Until 1926, under a lease for years, except

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Salary or wages

tangible immovable property takes place when the seller place the buyer, or such person as he directs, in possession of the property, Pyare Lal v. Emperor, AIR 1945 All 135: (1945) ILR All 207. Sale, is found

Mesne profit

Mesne profit, of property means those profits which the person in wrongful possession of such property actually received or might with ordinary diligence have received therefrom, together with interest on such

Seizure

Seizure, 'seizure' means something different because here seizure means that the Commissioner would take into possession the account books and take them outside the possession of the assessee, Mangat Rai v. State of Madhya

Settled land

bring it into line with the rest of the land legislation of 1925, so that a fee-simple in possession or a term of years absolute (which are the only legal estates in existence) should be vested in

Possessio

power is detention; and it lies at the bottom of all legal senses of the word 'possession.' This possession is no legal state or condition, but it may be the source of rights, and it then becomes

Mortgage

a vifgage (vivium vadium), so called because neither loan nor property is lost, for the creditor enters into possession of the estate, and receives its proceeds in satisfaction of his debt, with interest, upon which the debtor

Occupier

Geo.5. s. 641), s. 3. In common parlance, an 'occupier' is one who 'takes' or (more usually) 'holds' possession: SHORTER OXFORD DICTIONARY, 3rd Edn. Vol. 2, p. 1433. In the legal sense, an occupier is a person

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