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Implied trusts

abuse of trust cannot confer any right on the party abusing it, or on those who claim in privity with him. See CONSTRUCTIVE TRUST. Consult Lewin or Godefroi on Trusts.

Worker, directly or through any agency

the management and the persons employed. Admittedly the coolies were not employed by the management; there was no privity of contract between them and the management, Chintaman Rao v. State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1958 SC 388

Will, Estate at

entered into possession he may accept a release of the inheritance from the grantor, for there exists a privity between them. It must end at the death of either party, for death deprives a person of the

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Trust

not, however, issuing out of real or personal property, but as a collateral incident accompanying it, annexed in privity to (i.e., commensurate with) the interest in such property, and also to the person touching such interest, for

Ship

is limited by s. 503 of the Merchant Shipping Act, where there has been no actual loss or privity, to amounts varying with the tonnage of the ship. S. 502 protects the owner of a British ship

Remainder

then as between B. and C., C. has the possession and B. the reversion; hence the doctrine of privity of estate. A remainder does not, like a reversion, arise by operation of law, but is always crated

Relinquishment and assignment of tenancy

his obligation under the tenancy and this liability is contractual while the assignee becomes liable by reason of privity of estate. The consent of the landlord to an assign-ment is not necessary, in the absence of a

Publication

(q.v.) prevents registra-tion, but publication by exhibition at industrial and international exhibitions and exhibition elsewhere without the proprietor's privity or consent does not operate as a publication so as to defeat registration, provided that the conditions imposed

Guaranty, or Guarantee

against the debtor are affected, disturbed or destroyed by any agreement between the creditor and debtor without his privity, such as if time is given by the creditor to the principal debtor, Bolton v. Buckenham, (1891) 1

privy

[Anglo-French privé, from Old French, intimate, confidant, from privé intimate, familiar, from Latin privatus private] : one having privity ;esp : one who acquires an interest in the subject matter (as property) of prior or pending litigation

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