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Per and post

heirs or assigns of the grantee: to come in the post is to claim by a paramount and prior title, as the lord by escheat. See Co. Litt. 271 b, Harg., n. (1), II.

Perfumery

Perfumery, the word 'perfumery' in the Entry 16 draws colour from the words 'cosmetics' and 'toilet goods' the words 'perfumery' in the Entry 16 can only refer to such articles to perfumery as are used, as...

Petition

of Rights (see BILL OF RIGHTS) to be illegal. But by 13 Car. 2, st. 1, c. 5, prior in date to the Bill of Rights, it was enacted that not more than twenty names should be

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Plastic

SC 558 (560): (1997) 2 SCC 664. [Central Excise and Sale Act, 1944, s. 15A (as it stood prior to 28-2-1964)]

Portiliminium

are merely suspended rather than destroyed by temporary loss of possession and the legal state of things existing prior to the hostile occupation is re-established, Singhal's Jurisprudence, p. 259.

Post entry

the surplusage in the same manner as the first was done. As a merchant is always in time prior to the clearing of the vessel to make his post, he should take care not to over-enter. However,

Post-dated cheque

that the instrument is a cheque once the date written on it arrives. But its status is unclear prior to that date. It is arguable that, between the date of its issue and the date written on

Prevention

the right which a superior person or officer has to lay hold of, claim, or transact, an affair prior to an inferior one, to whom otherwise it more immediately belongs, Canon Law Term.

Public Authorities, Protection of

(1932) 2 KB 595, for the meaning of 'intended execution of a public duty.' The Act repeals all prior enactments by which in any proceeding to which it applies the proceeding is to be commenced in any

Publication

and Sch., substituting the Scheduled s. for s. 41 of the (English) Patents and Designs Act, 1907]. Similarly, prior publication of design (q.v.) prevents registra-tion, but publication by exhibition at industrial and international exhibitions and exhibition elsewhere

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