Skip to content

Protected Class - Law Dictionary Search Results

Research workspace

Save terms and build your research trail

A free trial unlocks notes, tags, search history, and the full AI Studio desk for judgment research.

discriminate

by law (as national origin, race, sex, religion, age, or disability) see also bona fide occupational qualification, equal protection, reverse discrimination, suspect class Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the Important Laws section amendment xiv to the

Equal protection

Equal protection, the guarantee against the denial of equal protection of the laws does not mean that identically the same … Caste and Scheduled Tribe citizens for their advancement, Constitution of India, Art. 15(3) and (4). All individuals and classes will be equally subjected to the ordinary law of the land administered by the law courts, Commentary on

Land charge

or if created before 1926, acquired under a conveyance made after 1925, of a legal estate except mortgages protected by a deposit of deeds, or within the jurisdiction of a district registry, such as Yorkshire, and registered … statutes: (1) Lis Pendens (see that title); (2) annuities existing before the 1st January, 1926 (now closed, see Class E, infra); (3) writs and orders affecting land, and (4) DEEDS OF ARRANGEMENT (see that title), as defined

Keep your definitions linked to case research

Increase of Rent and Mortgage (Restrictions) Acts (English)

the first instance, by the conditions caused by the outbreak of the Great War. The continuance of the protection to tenants and mortgagees of dwelling-houses afforded by the later Acts was made necessary by the housing shortage, … (English). A series of statutes, each of a temporary character, curtailing the contractual rights, in respect of certain classes of property, of landlords and mortgagees. This legislation was rendered necessary, in the first instance, by the conditions

Settled land

for life by the S.L. Acts, 1882 to 1890, subject to safeguards provided by the Acts for the protection of the estate and the other beneficiaries under the settlement, and these powers have been reproduced and extended … reproduced and extended by the Act of 1925 (see Parts II. to V. of that Act). Improvements are classed under three heads (see the Third Schedule of the Act of 1925), the cost of which the tenant

Priority

death duties and other estate liabilities discharged by him, and subject to these equitable charges which are not protected by possession of the documents of title or which do not affect interests under a trust for sale … 1893 AC 369; it merely establishes priority. Under the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 137, important classes of property were swept into this rule, viz., all equitable interests inland (i.e., all estates for less than

Magistrate

Magistrate, means the Judicial Magistrate of the first class, or as the case may be, the Metropolitan Magistrate, exercising jurisdiction under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973

Equality

and place of birth etc. However, the State can make special provision for reservation of posts for backward class citizens, Constitution of India, Art. 16(1), (2) & 4. The equality before law does not mean absolute equality … Is a fundamental right guaranteed by the Indian Constitution. Every citizen is guaranteed equality before law or equal protection of laws within the territory of India [Constitution of India, Art. 14]. The uniformity and likeness of civil

Public

of Andhra Pradesh, (1972) 2 Andh WR 288: (1972) Mad LJ (Cr) 674. The word 'public' includes any class of the public or any community. [Penal Code, 1860, s. 12] … public rights of way, public property, public authority, public nuisance, public house, public school, public company, Public Authorities Protection Act, 1893 (56 & 57 Vict. C 61. Public, is ordinarily used with reference to a joint body

Hotel

of lodgers and boarders are maintained. Services so maintained vary with the standard of the hotel and the class of persons to which it caters; but the amenities must have relation to the hotel business. Associated Hotels

  • Last »

Try the research workspace - 7 days free


AI Briefs · Semantic Search · Save & annotate judgments

Start your 7-day free trial