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Previous year
the expression 'previous years' in s. 2(6A)(c) of the Income Tax Act, 1922 was meant the financial years preceding the year in which liquidation took place. Dhandhania Kedia and Co. v Commissioner of Income Tax, AIR 1959
Armour and arms
Armour and arms are understood in Law to mean things (see preceding title) which a person wears for defence, or takes in hand, or uses in anger, to strike or
Mortgagee
v. (Mst.) Paharia, 1957 Pat 136. Mortgagee, he that takes a mortgage as security for a loan. See preceding title
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Maundy Thursday
Maundy Thursday [fr. maund, Sax., an alms-basket, or dies mandati, Lat., the day of the command], the day preceding Good Friday, on which princes give alms
Going to the Country
country.' It was the essential termination to a pleading which took issue upon a material fact in the preceding pleading. See VERIFICATION.
Incuria
adopted by this Court while interpreting Article 141 of the Constitution of India which embodies the doctrine of precedents as a matter of law, Nirmal Jeet Kaur v. State of Madhya Pradesh, (2004) 7 SCC 558 (565).
Good Friday
grace' (see GRACE DAY OF) falls on Good Friday, a bill of exchange shall be payable on the preceding business day. Good Friday is a holiday in the Courts and offices of the Supreme Court (R.S.C. 1883,
Gretna green marriage
thereof, his or her usual place of residence there, or had lived in Scotland for twenty-one days next preceding such marriage, any law, custom, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.
Hawkers and pedlars
licence costs 2l. a year, and except by way of renewal of a licence for the year immediately preceding, is grantable by the Inland Revenue on the production of a certificate of good character from a clergyman
Heraldry
(1) The science of heralds; see last title. (2) An old and obsolete abuse of buying and selling precedence in the paper of causes for hearing, See North's Life of Lord-Keeper Guilford, 204.
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