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Head of the Archives

Head of the Archives, means a person holding the charge of the Archives of the Union territory Administration. [Public Records Act, 1993 (69 of 1993), s. 2 (c)]...


Insinuatio

Insinuatio, registration amongst the public records, Civ. Law...


Manorial documents

Manorial documents, Court Rolls, surveys, maps, terriers, all documents and books relating to the boundaries, franchises, wastes, customs or courts of a manor but not deeds or evidence of title to the manor, are now placed under the superintendence of the Master of the Rolls. They may remain in the possession or under the control of the lord of the manor but he shall not be entitled to destroy or wilfully damage them. The Master of the Rolls has power to direct the documents to be sent to the Public Record or local institutions undertaking to be responsible for the preservation and indexing of the documents and the Master of the Rolls may make rules for these purposes. [See (English) Law of Property Act, 1924, 2nd Sch., 2(4)]...


Title search

Title search, means an examination of the public records to determine whether any defects or encumbrance exist in a given property's chain of title, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1495....


Verify

Verify, in relation to a digital signature, electronic record or public key, with its grammatical variations and cognate expression means to determine whether:(a) the initial electronic record was affixed with the digital signature by the use of private key corresponding to the public key of the subscriber;(b) the initial electronic record is retained intact or has been altered since such electronic record was so affixed with the digital signature. [Information Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000), s. 2(1) (zh)]1. To prove to be true, to confirm or establish the truth or truthfulness of; to authentically2. To confirm or substantiate by oath or affidavit; to swear to the truth of, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.Means to ascertain, to confirm, to test the truth or accuracy of, and to prove to be true. That the authority must append his verification to the declaration made by candidate on solemn affirmation, Nanak Singh v. Deputy Commissioner Amritsar, (1968) 70 Punj LR 1095....


Copyright

Copyright, an incorporeal right, being the exclusive privilege of printing, reprinting, selling, and publishing is own original work which the statute law first gave to an author in 1709, by 8 Anne, c. 19, for the term of fourteen years. Whether the right exited at Common Law is a long-vexed and still undetermined question. See Jeffries v. Boosey, (1854) 4 HLC 815. There is no copyright in an illegal or immoral publication, Southey v. Sherwood, (1817) 2 Mer 435; Stockdale v. Onwhyn, (1826) 5 B&C 173.The law of copyright now depends mainly on the (English) Copyright Act,1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 46) (July 1, 1912), and 'no person shall be entitled to copyright or any similar right in any literary dramatic, musical, or artistic work, whether published or unpublished, otherwise than under and in accordance with the provisions of this Act, or of any other statutory enactment for the time being in force' (s. 31).By sub-s. 2 of s. 1 of this Act 'copyright' is thus defined:--For the purposes of ...


Common assurances

Common assurances, the legal evidences of the tran-slation of property, whereby every person's estate is assured to him. These common assurances are of four kinds:-(1) By matter in pais, or deed, which is an assurance transacted between two or more private persons, in pais, iin the country; that is (according to the old Common Law) upon the very spot to be transferred. (2) By matter of record, or an assurance transacted only in the sovereign's public courts of record, or under the authority of a public board or commission empowered by Act of Parliament to record its proceedings. (3) By special custom obtaining in some particular places and relating only to some particular species of property: which three are such as take effect during the life of the party conveying or assuring. (4) The fourth takes no effect till after his death, and that is by devise, contained in his last will and testament, 2 Bl. Com. 294....


Graveyard

Graveyard, Under the Mahomedan Law the graveyards may be of two kinds - a family or private graveyard and a public graveyard. A graveyard is a private one which is confined only to burial of corpses of the founder, his relations or his descendants. In such a burial ground no person who does not belong to the family of the founder is permitted to be bury to his dead. On the other hand if any member of the public is permitted to be buried in a graveyard and this practice grows so that it is proved by instances adequate in character, number and extent, then the presumption will be that the dedication is complete and the graveyard has become a public graveyard where the Mahomedan public will have the right to bury their dead. It is also well settled that a conclusive proof of the public graveyard is the description of the burial ground in the revenue records as a public graveyard, Syed Mohd. Salie Labbai v. Mohd. Hanifa, AIR 1976 SC 1569 (1584): (1976) 4 SCC 780: (1976) 3 SCR 721.Once a Ka...


file

file filed fil·ing vt 1 a : to submit (a legal document) to the proper office (as the office of a clerk of court) for keeping on file among the records esp. as a procedural step in a legal transaction or proceeding [filed a tax return] [a financing statement filed with the Secretary of State] [filing a notice of appeal] ;also : record [filed a mortgage in the Registry of Deeds] NOTE: In nearly all cases, a document is deemed to be filed when it is actually received by the office to which it is directed. A few cases, however, have held that a document is filed upon the mailing of it. b : to place (as a document) on file among the records of an office esp. by formally receiving and endorsing [a complaint filed by the clerk despite the absence of the filing fee] 2 : to return (the documentation in a case) to the records of a clerk of court without any determination of the case ;broadly : to conclude (a case) without a determination on its merits 3 : to initiate (a judicial...


Libel

Libel [fr. libellus, Lat.; libelle, Fr.]. False defamatory words, if written and published, constitute a libel: Odgers on libel, p. 1. 'Everything printed or written, which reflects on the character of another, and is published without lawful justification or excuse, is a libel whatever the intention may have been', O'Brien v. Clement, (1846) 15 M & W 435, per Parke, B. A statement in a talking film is a libel and not merely a slander, Yossopoff v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture Corporation, 78 Sol Jo 617. As to publication by dictation, etc., to a typist, see Osborn v. Boulter & Son, (1930) 2 KB 226. All contumelious matter that tends to degrade a man in the opinion of his neighbours, or to make him ridiculous, will amount (when conveyed in writing, or by picture, effigy, or the like, Monson v. Tussauds, Ltd., (1894)1 QB 671, to libel. A writing of fictitious character which incidentally contains the name of a real person may be a libel: see Jones v. Hulton & Co., 1910 AC 20, where Lord ...



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