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An error of law on the face of the award

thereto, as for instance a note appended by the arbitrator stating the reasons for his judgment, some legal proposition which is the basis of the award and which you can then say is erroneous, Champsex & Co.

Bracton

of property are explained; the proceedings in actions, through the minutest steps, are investigated and developed; while every proposition is supported by fair deduction, or corroborated by the authority of some adjudged case, so that the reader

Consumer

of the word 'consumer' shows that it would include a person who consumes energy generated by himself. The proposition that in the matter of the levy of electricity tax the Court should differentiate between cases wherein the

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Customary freeholds

estate rests with the tenant, the freehold tenure is in the lord. (Mr. Serjeant Scriven dissents from this proposition in his workon Copyholds, vol. ii. pp. 572 et seq.) They are usually transferred by surrender into the

Domicile

for ever in the country where the residence has been taken up. It is also a well established proposition that a person may have no home but he cannot be without a domicile and the law may

Error apparent on the face of award

on the face of an award' means that the Court must first find whether there is any legal proposition which is the basis of such an award. Where an award is challenged upon such a ground it

Error of law on the face of the award

thereto, as, for instance, a note appended by the arbitrator stating the reasons for his judgment, some legal proposition which is the basis of the award and which you can then say is erroneous, N. Chellappan v.

Existence or extent of a legal right

right, the suit will still fail because the plaintiff cannot succeed unless he establishes his legal right. This proposition of law is so clear and axiomatic that the expression - 'the existence or extent of a legal

Syllogism

syllogism it is essential that there should be three, and no more than three, pro-positions-namely, the conclusion, or proposition to be proved, and two other propositions which together prove it, and which are called the premises. There

Giving of notice

whom it is tendered refuses to accept it. We can find however no authority or principle for the proposition that as soon as the person with a legal duty to give the notice despatches the notice to

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