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Active supervision
Active supervision, means under the test for determining whether a private entity may claim a state-action exemption from the anti-trust laws, the right of the State to review the
Account or Accompt
year a profit and loss account and balance sheet, to copies of which shareholders of all companies, except private companies, are entitled. See ss. 122 and 131 of the Act (and for contents) s. 124. The regulations
Abstraction
be abstracted from the main of the electric company by an unauthorised wire connecting the main with a private terminal, the connecting wire is the artificial means for abstraction, Jagannath Singh v. B.S. Ramaswamy, AIR 1966 SC
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Abstract of title
should set forth chronologically a clear statement of the material parts of the deeds, wills, writings, records, and private Acts of Parliament, which at all affect or concern the title to be deduced, together with such matters
A vinculo matrimonii
was frequently granted before the establishment of the 'Divorce Court' in 1857, on the ground of adultery, by private Act of Parliament. See ADULTERY: DIVORCE.
A fortiori
A fortiori. [By so much stronger reason]. It is thus applied:-A private person, and a fortiori a peace officer (it being his special duty), who is present at the commission
Soldier
One who is engaged in military service as an officer or a private one who serves in an army one of an organized body of combatants
Sneak
To creep or steal away or about privately to come or go meanly as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen as to sneak away
Shoplifter
One who steals anything in a shop or takes goods privately from a shop one who under pretense of buying goods takes occasion to steal
Privily
In a privy manner privately secretly
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