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Previous conviction

proof of the identity of the prisoner. See Previous Convic-tions Act, 1836. As to evidence of conviction within preceding five years of any offence involving fraud or dishonesty when prisoner is charged with receiving stolen goods, see

Potior est conditio possidentis

Potior est conditio possidentis, (The possessor is in the stronger position.) See POSSESSION and next preceding title.

Premises

Premises (pr'missa), in logic, propositions antecedently supposed or proved. In a deed the 'premises' are all the parts preceding the habendum. The word properly applies to what has been previously described or mentioned, and is used only

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Piedpoudre, Court of

to administer justice for all commercial injuries done in that very fair or market, and not in any preceding one; so that the injury must be done, complained of, heard and determined, within the compass of one

Majority

age of 21 years; a minor comes of age in the eye of the law on the day preceding the anniversary of his birth. 2. The grater number. In a deliberative body, questions are ordinarily decided by

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

Promoter

1929, and 4th Sch., par. 12, under which the prospectus must disclose the amount paid within the two preceding years or intended to be paid to any promoter and the consideration for any such payment. See PROSPECTUS;

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

Receiver of stolen property

the offence charged was found or had been in his possession; (b) the fact that within five years preceding the date of the offence charged he was convicted of an offence involving fraud or dishonesty. Before 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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