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Prior or previous, may be implied if the contextual situation or the object and design of the legislation demands it, Graphite India Ltd. v. Durgapur Projects Ltd., (1999) 7 SCC 645.The word 'prior' or 'previous' may be implied if the contextual situation or the object and design of the legislation demands it but there are no such compelling circumstances justifying reading any such implication into s. 29(1). On the other hand, the indications are all to the contrary. On a perusal of the several, different sections of the very Act, that the Parliament has not been unmindful of the need to clearly express its intention by using the expression 'previous permission' whenever it was thought that 'previous permission' was necessary. In s. 27(1) and 30, it is to be seen that the expression 'permission' is qualified by the word 'previous' and in ss. 8(1), 8(2) and 31, the expression 'general or special permission' is qualified by the word 'previous', whereas in s.s 13(2), 19(1), 19(4), 20, 21...
Previous
Going before in time being or happening before something else antecedent prior as previous arrangements a previous illness...
prior inconsistent statement
prior inconsistent statement : a witness's statement made out of court prior to testifying that is inconsistent with the witness's testimony and that may be offered to impeach the witness's credibility compare prior consistent statement NOTE: If a prior inconsistent statement was made under oath subject to the penalties of perjury at a previous proceeding (as a deposition or grand jury hearing), the statement is not hearsay under Federal Rule of Evidence 801(d)(1) and may be offered to prove that what was asserted in the statement is true. ...
Prior
Preceding in the order of time former antecedent anterior previous as a prior discovery prior obligation used elliptically in cases like the following he lived alone in the time prior to his marriage...
Has been previously issued
Has been previously issued, The words 'has been previously made' do not merely connote the issuing of a notification before the Bihar Town Planning & Improvement Trust Act, 1951 was passed but include all notifications made prior or anterior to the first publication of a notice of an improvement scheme under s. 46 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, Patna Improvement Trust v. Lakshmi Devi, AIR 1963 SC 1077 (1080): (1963) Supp 2 SCR 812. [Bihar Town Planning and Improve-ment Trust Act, 1951 (35 of 1951), Sch. Cl. 2(1)]...
Priorly
Previously...
Previous conviction
Previous conviction. The 11th s. of the (English) Criminal Law Act, 1827 (7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 28), reciting that 'it is expedient to provide for the more exemplary punishment of offenders who commit felony after a previous conviction for felony,' empowered a Court to inflict transportation for life and whipping for such subsequent conviction. Penal servitude has since been substituted for transportation, and the whipping is abolished. The (English) Larceny Act, 1916 (6 & 7 Geo. 5, c. 50), by s. 37, authorizes the infliction of penal servitude up to ten years on those committing simple larceny after having been previously convicted of felony and up to seven years if previously convicted of an indictable misdemeanour punishable under the Act or twice summarily convicted of certain other offences; males under sixteen are liable to whipping in addition.Frequently statutes [see, e.g., (English) Licensing Act, 1872, s. 12, as to drunkenness; (English) Road Traffic Act, 1930, s. 13; (English) Tr...
prior consistent statement
prior consistent statement : a witness's statement made out of court prior to testifying that is consistent with the witness's testimony compare prior inconsistent statement NOTE: A prior consistent statement may be offered as evidence to rebut a charge that a witness's testimony is fabricated, provided that the witness is available to be cross-examined. Under Federal Rule of Evidence 801(d)(1), a prior consistent statement of a witness testifying at trial and subject to cross-examination is not hearsay. ...
In the course of such previous year
In the course of such previous year, 'in the course of such previous year' would, refer to the period commencing with the beginning of the previous year and termination with the end of the previous year. 'In the course of such previous year', would necessarily mean that free transferability of the shares by the holders to other members of the public should be present throughout the previous year, CIT v. East West Import and Export (P) Ltd., AIR 1989 SC 836 (838): (1989) 1 SCC 760. (Income-tax Act, 1922, s. 23A Expln.)...
Leges posteriores priores contrarias abrogant
Leges posteriores priores contrarias abrogant, [Lat.], subsequent lasws repeal prior conflicting ones. See Madan Lal Gupta v. Ravinder Kumar, (2001) 1 SCC 252.--2 Rol. Rep. 410.--(Later laws abrogate prior contrary laws.) See REPEAL....
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