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Month

'calendar month running from any arbitrary date, the period expires with the day, in the succeeding month immediately preceding the day corresponding to the date upon which the period to starts save that if the period starts

Full age

a man is competent in law to do anything as a person of full age on the day preceding his 21st birthday, because the completion of the 21st year is supposed to belong as much to the

Payment of Money into Court

and 1845, has been filed, no statement of fact that money has been paid into court under the preceding Rules of this Order shall be inserted in the pleadings and no communication of that fact shall at

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Namely

Re Brockett, (1908) 1 Ch 185. Namely, the word 'namely' imports enumeration of what is comprised in the preceding clause. In other words it ordinarily serves the purpose of equating what follows with the clause described before,

National insurance

person, he has been employed for less than the prescribed period (formerly less than 13 weeks in the preceding two years). B. Voluntary Contributors. Voluntary contributors are persons who may, if they wish, come under the Acts.

Need and require

of want with a thrust within demanding fulfilment. 'Need' or 'requirement' qualified by word 'bona fide' or 'genuine' preceding as an adjective - is an expression often used in Rent Control Laws, Shiv Sarop Gupta v. Mahesh

New

from that previously existing, known, or used. Thus a set of things which is different from that immediately preceding it may well be called new. Furthermore, a situation which once existed and then ceased to exist (disappeared)

Nov' narrationes

courts, then goes through each particular writ, and the declaration upon it, accompanied with directions, and illustrated by precedents, 3 Reeves, c. xvi., 152.

Other co-sharers

no co-sharer was left out or omitted and not to deny the right to kinsfolk-co-sharers covered by the preceding clauses, Bhikha Ram v. Ram Sarup, AIR 1992 SC 207 (211): (1992) 1 SCC 319. [Punjab Pre-emption Act

Other legal proceeding

Other legal proceeding, the expression 'other legal proceeding' must be read ejusdem generis with the preceding words 'suit' and prosecution as they constitute a genus. The penalty and adjudication proceedings in question did not

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