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Home Dictionary Name: private person Page: 3Proprietary chapels
Proprietary chapels, those belonging to private persons who have purchased or erected them with a view to profit or otherwise. See Private Chapels Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 66)....
Highways
Highways, all portions of land, and passage which every subject of the kingdom has a right to use. See Pratt on Highways; also defined by the Highway Act, 1835 (5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 50), s. 5, 'All roads, bridges (not being county bridges), carriage ways, cartways, horseways, bridleways, footways, cause-ways churchways and pavements. They exist either by prescription, by authority of Acts of Parliament, or by dedication to the use of the public; and see the Rights of Way Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 45). The right of the public, when once acquired, is permanent and inalienable except by the authority of Parliament-'once a highway, always a highway.' It cannot be lost by abandonment or non-user, and the public retain the right, though they may never have occasion to use it. But the right is only a right of passing and repassing, pausing only for such time as is reasonable and usual when persons are using a highway as such. A man has no right to stand on the highway in order to shoot pheas...
Personae designata
Personae designata, a persona designata is a person selected to act in his private capacity and not in his capacity as a Judge. A persona designata is a person who is pointed out or described as an individual as opposed to a person as certained as a member of a class, or as filling a particular character, Maharaja Dharmendra Prasad Singh v. State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1969 All 484 (486). (Court-fees Act, 1870, s. 5)...
Licence fee and fixed fee
Licence fee and fixed fee, the term 'licence fee' in the context of the U.P. Excise Law connotes the idea of it being the consideration in money receivable by the Government from a private person by grant of a licence (contract), for parting in such person's favour, its exclusive privilege or right of carrying on certain activities in respect of country liquor or drugs under 'auction system' in public auctions, and the term 'fixed fee' is a fee determined by the Excise Commissioner, in lieu of 'licence fee', State of U.P. v. Sheopat Rai, AIR 1994 SC 813. (1994) Supp 1 SCC 8. [U.P. Excise Act, 1910 s. 24A; U.P. Excise Rules, 1910, R. 2(1)]...
Mirza
Mirza, is not a caste, but is only a term of respect which was used in old days for a literate person who did writing for Government or Private persons. It may easily be called the Persian counterpart of the word 'Babu' in Urdu, Wazir Ahmad v. Ghulam Hassan, 1945 Pesh 29....
Idiota
Idiota, means (Civil law) (1) An unlearned, simple person (2) A private person; one not in public office, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 749....
Discrimination
Discrimination, when used in Art. 304(a), involves an element of intentional and purposeful differentiation thereby creating economic barrier and involves an element of an unfavourable bias. It implies an unfair classification, Video Electronics P. Ltd. v. State of Punjab, AIR 1990 SC 820 (832): (1990) 3 SCC 87. [Constitution of India, Art. 304(a)]The Constitution of India prohibits the State from discriminating against any citizen in respect of any employment under it on the grounds of religion, race, caste sex, etc., Constitution of India, Art. 16(2).In India, Constitution prohibits the State from discriminating against any citizen on grounds of religion, race, sex, place of birth or any of them by putting restriction on their access and use certain public places, Constitution of India, Art. 15(1) and (2).The State is empowered to make special provisions for women, children socially and educationally backward classes, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes citizens in this regard, Con...
Common assurances
Common assurances, the legal evidences of the tran-slation of property, whereby every person's estate is assured to him. These common assurances are of four kinds:-(1) By matter in pais, or deed, which is an assurance transacted between two or more private persons, in pais, iin the country; that is (according to the old Common Law) upon the very spot to be transferred. (2) By matter of record, or an assurance transacted only in the sovereign's public courts of record, or under the authority of a public board or commission empowered by Act of Parliament to record its proceedings. (3) By special custom obtaining in some particular places and relating only to some particular species of property: which three are such as take effect during the life of the party conveying or assuring. (4) The fourth takes no effect till after his death, and that is by devise, contained in his last will and testament, 2 Bl. Com. 294....
Autonomic law
Autonomic law, means a type of enacted law that has its source in various forms of subordinate and restricted legislative authority possessed by private persons and bodies of persons, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 130....
special act
special act : an act of a legislature that is not of general application in all territory subject to the legislative power but affects private persons or only part of a class of persons in the same situation or only part of a more general subject matter or is intended to apply only in a particular subdivision of the entire territory ...
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