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Chairman

Chairman would, therefore, be to preside over meetings, preserve order, conduct the business of the day, ensure that precise decisions are taken and correctly recorded and do all that is necessary for smooth transaction of business. The

Dharma

all matters such as spiritual, moral and personal as also civil, criminal and constitutional law, it gives the precise meaning depending upon the context in which it is used. When dharma is used in the context of

Belonging to

Webster 'belong to' is explained as meaning inter alia 'to be owned by, be the possession of. The precise sense which the word was meant to convey can therefore be gathered only by reading the document as

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Smug

Studiously neat or nice especially in dress spruce affectedly precise smooth and prim

Attestation Clause

signed by the witnesses to its execution, stating that they have witnessed it. Such a clause (in very precise terms)is always appended to a will formally prepared, the most common form being as follows:- Signed by the

Attempt

mixed question of law and fact, depending largely on the circumstances of the particular case. 'Attempt' defies a precise and exact definition. Broadly speaking, all crimes which consist of the commission of affirmative acts are preceded by

Attachment

D. v. A. & Co., (1900) 1 Ch 484. As the liberty of the subject is involved the precise course pointed out by the rules must be strictly followed; 'every subject has a right to say that

Adjoining

Eectric Power Board, 1933 AC 653, but the word sometimes means near or neighbouring; 'adjacent' is not as precise, and this word generally, includes places which are near or neighbouring, ibid.; and see Ecclesiastical Commrs.' Case, 1936

Acknowledgment of debt or liability

or liability is still in existence, so as to prevent the operation of the Statute of Limitations. The precise form of acknowledgment necessary in any particular case depends on the terms of the relevant statute. An acknowledgment

Abstract of title

It should describe whatever will tend to enable him or his advisers to form an opinion of the precise state of the title at Law and in Equity, together with all chances of eviction or even of

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