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Laudatio

deliver in Court concerning an accused person's good behaviour and integrity of life. It resembled the practice which prevails in our trials of calling persons to speak to a prisoner's character. The least number of the laudatores

Hereinafter referred to

referred to as the last date of the publication of the notification is the date from which the prevailing prices of the land is to be computed, Krishi Utpadan Mandi Samiti v. Marband Singh, (1999) 2 SCC

Gurawat

Gurawat, There is a custom prevailing in Agarwal community of Chhattisgarh region in the State of Madhya Pradesh known as 'GURAWAT'. According to this

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Goodwill

and character of the business, its name and reputation, its location, its impact on the contemporary market, the prevailing socio-economic ecology, introduction to old customers and agreed absence of competition. There can be no account in value

Generale tantum valet in generalibus quantum singulare in singulis

Generale tantum valet in generalibus quantum singulare in singulis [Lat.], what is general prevails as much amongst things general as what is particular amongst things particular

Foreign Attachment

Foreign Attachment, a custom which prevails in the city of London, whereby a debt owing to a defendant, sued in the Court of the

Domicile

effective, the law assigns what is called a domicile of origin to every person at his birth. This prevails until a new domicile has been acquired, so that if a person leaves the country of his origin

Feudal system

the Middle Ages. The system as introduced here, however, differed in some very important respects from that which prevailed abroad. See FEOD and TENURE, and Craig de Feudis, passim. The main incidents of the feudal system were

False weight or measure

of 1976), s. 2(g)] A weight or measure that does not comply with governmentally prescribed standard or with prevailing custom in the place and business in which the weight or measure is used, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th

Escuage

the discretion of the Crown, and afterwards by authority of Parliament; and this commutation appears to have generally prevailed from so early a period as the time of Henry II, Williams on Real Property. Escuage is called

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