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Eminent domain
to reassert, either temporarily or permanently, its dominion over any portion of the soil of the State including private property without its owner's consent on account of public exigency and for the public good. Eminent domain is … gives the right to resume possession of the property in the manner directed by the Constitution and the laws of the State, whenever the public interest requires it. The term 'expropriation' is practically synonymous with the term
Locus standi
of Law, William C. Anderson, 1889, p. 637. Locus standi, is the right of the petitioner against a private, provisional order or hybrid bill or special procedure order to be heard upon his petition. A petitioner has
Requisition of property
Ardeshir P. Banaji v. Union of India, AIR 1997 Bom 68. In UK the executive cannot take away private property without the authority of law; however there is no judicial review of the reasonableness or propriety of
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International Law
is the slow growth of modern times, under the combined influence of Christianity, intercourse, commerce and war. II. Private Law (Conflict of Laws): It is plain that the laws of one country can have no intrinsic force, proprio
Administrative law
and orders; and (3) the legal principles governing the acts of public agents when those acts conflict with private rights, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 46. Administrative law deals with the field of legal control exercised
Renvoi
Renvoi, a term employed in private international law to denote the sending, or determination, of a matter to or according to the law of
civil law
law established by a nation or state for its own jurisdiction 4 : the law that applies to private rights esp. as opposed to the law that applies to criminal matters compare criminal law
Public policy
1924: (1974) 2 SCC 472: (1975) 1 SCR 575. The principles under which the freedom of contract or private dealings is restricted by law for the good of the community. See, e.g., the titles CHAM-PERTY; RESTRAINT OF
Offence
Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3(38)] It generally implies infringement of public duty, as distinguished from mere private rights punishable under criminal law, Depot Manager, A.P. SRTC v. Mohd. Yousuf Miya, (1997) 2 SCC 699: 1997
Lex loci contractus
Odgen v. Ogden, 1908, P. 46; CONFICT OF LAWS; and consult Dicey's Conflict of Laws, and Westlake on Private International Law.
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