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Keep open

Keep open, a private cart stand is 'kept open' only if it is kept open to others in charge of vehicles besides

Parliamentary Agent

Parliamentary Agent, in the House of Commons, he prepares and promotes private bills, conducts proceeding upon petitions against such bills, various duties and responsibilities are imposed by the orders of

Material resources of the community

State. The distribution envisaged by Article 39 (b) necessarily takes within its stride the transformation of wealth from private ownership into public ownership by nationalisation. Hence the expression 'material resources of the community' is not confined to

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Act of Parliament

leur benevolence et ainsi le veult.' Acts of Parliament are either (1) public; (2) local or special; (3) private or personal. Public Acts are those which affect the whole realm or important parts of it. Local Acts,

Civil Law

of the constitutions of Diocletian and Maximin. These compilations are to be esteemed as the work of two private lawyers; the fragments which Cujacius (the most celebrated of all the interpreters of the Roman law) has placed

Abatement

nuisance to remove or put an end to it by his own act. Nuisances are either public or private. A public nuisance may be abated, that is, taken away or removed, by urban sanitary authorities and other

privity

privity pl: -ties [Old French privité privacy, secret, from Medieval Latin privitat- privitas, from Latin privus private] 1 : the direct connection or relationship between parties to a contract or transaction (as a purchase) [

Actor

Actor, a doer, generally a plaintiff or complainant. In a civil or private action the plaintiff was called by the Romans petitor; in a public action (causa publica) he was called

Persona designata

ILR 47 Mad 369: (AIR 1924 Mad 561) (FB), personae designate are 'persons selected to act in their private capacity and not in their capacity as Judges', Central Talkies v. Dwarka Prasad, AIR 1961 SC 606 (609):

Informer

law or penal statute; also an approver. See QUI TAM; APPROVER; COMMON INFORMER. Means (1) Informant (2) A private citizen who brings a penal action to recover a penalty. Under some statutes, a private citizen is required

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