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Deferred stock

create such stock to cases where a 3 per cent. dividend has been paid for one year, and puts a fixed maximum dividend on the 'preferred' at the rate of 6 per cent. … of which are entitled to all the residue of the net earnings, after such fixed dividend has been paid to the holders of the 'preferred,' according to the classification in the memorandum or Articles. See also Companies Act,

Sequester

To separate from the owner for a time to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person to seize or take possession of as property belonging to another … to seize or take possession of as property belonging to another and hold it till the profits have paid the demand for which it is taken or till the owner has performed the decree of court or

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Actio judicati

sold within eight days afterwards, and then the immovables, which were delivered in pledge to the creditor, or put under the care of a curator, and, if at the end of two months the debt was not … under the care of a curator, and, if at the end of two months the debt was not paid, the land was sold, Civil Law.

Bastard

is void for non-age under that Act to obtain a summons notwithstanding that the father may not have paid money for the child's maintenance within twelve months of the birth of the child. As to the obligations … the child's maintenance within twelve months of the birth of the child. As to the obligations of the putative father to the mother of a bastard child, see AFFILIATION. Until the Legitimacy Act,1927, was passed, a bastard

Super-institution

him to his quare impedit; but many inconveniences thence following (e.g., the uncertainty to whom tithes shall be paid, and the like), this method has been discouraged, Mirehouse on Advowsons, 189. … a super-institution is, that is enables the party who obtains it to try his title by ejectment, without putting him to his quare impedit; but many inconveniences thence following (e.g., the uncertainty to whom tithes shall be

Valuation

the market value of his lands as they stood before the scheme was authorized by which they are put to public uses. Subject to that he is entitled to be paid the full price for his lands,

Execution

that is called a writ of execution; and when he hath the possession of the land, or is paid the debt or damages, or hath the body of the defendant awarded to prison, then he hath execution … Joharan v. Abdul Salam, AIR 2001 SC 3404, (2001) 7 SCC 573. The act of carrying out or putting into effect, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 589. Is, where judgment is given in any action, that

Loan, gratuitous

under the peril of damages. He must reimburse the borrower the extraordinary expenses to which he has been put for the preservation of the thing lent. He is bound to give notice to the borrower of the … thereby, the lender is responsible. Where the thing has been lost by the borrower, and, after he has paid the value thereof, is restored to the lender, the later must return either the price paid or the

Mahr (dower)

under the Muhammadan law, is the sum of money or other property promised by the husband to be paid or delivered to the wife in consideration of the marriage, and even where no dower (mahr) is expressly … Islamic legal concept of maher. Its substitute, a valid retirement, or by death, which by terminating the marriage, puts an end to all the contingencies to which it is exposed; and on the other hand the woman

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