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Remainder
vested freehold at law, which the law will not allow. There is not, however, any necessity for a preceding freehold to support a contingent remainder for years; for such a remainder not amounting to a freehold, no
Person
body of individuals, whether incorporated or not, (vi) every artificial juridical person, not falling within any of the preceding sub-clauses, and (vii) any agency, office or branch owned or controlled by such person. [Foreign Exchange Management Act,
Factory
thereof whereon twenty or more persons are employed or were employed for wages on any day of the preceding twelve months, and in any part of which a manufacturing process is being carried on with the aid
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directions to choose his colleagues; and seventeen were ultimately appointed with absolute power to make such use of preceding works as should appear most conducive to the object in view. Tribonian's library afforded forty of the works
Population
Population, means the population of the municipal borough as ascertained at the preceding census, Nyamatkhan v. State, AIR 1994 Guj 64. As to the mode of ascertaining the 'population' of a
Executory devise
in the strict sense of that word, and therefor every future bequest of personal property, whether it be preceded or not preceded by a prior bequest, or limited on a certain or an uncertain event, is an
Deed
first, and amongst them, those having legal estates before those having equitable only, and the larger interests should precede the lesser. Then consenting parties and covenantors. After these, those who take any estate or interest, and, amongst
Condition
kind of obligation from another in the same transaction and to limit property. In their primary meaning, conditions precedent are events, but for the happening of which, rights will not arise. A condition subsequent puts an end
general
or concerned with main elements rather than limiting details [a resemblance] 5 : holding superior rank or taking precedence over others similarly titled [the manager]
federal preemption
federal preemption : a doctrine in law that allows a federal law to take precedence over or to displace a state law in certain matters of national importance (as interstate commerce)
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