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Guardianship
Guardianship. The care of and responsibility for a person of non-age or infancy in regard to its person or property, or both. At Common … been modified in favour of the mother by the (English) Custody of Infants Act, 1873 (36 & 37 Vict. c. 12, (English) Guardianship of Infants Acts, 1886 (49 & 50 Vict. c. 27), and 1925 (15 &
Purchaser
Purchaser, a buyer, a vendee; also the root of descent, from whom, under the (English) Inheritance Act, 1833, the descent was in every case to be … Purchaser, a buyer, a vendee; also the root of descent, from whom, under the (English) Inheritance Act, 1833, the descent was in every
Wages
etc., and any sum 'payable to such person by reason of the termination of his employment, A.R. Sarin v. B.C. Patil, AIR 1951 Bom 423. Means remuneration payable to an employee under an award or settlement, Purshottam … Wages, if the remuneration is to be paid daily or weekly, it can be called wages. But when it is monthly remuneration
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Gupta v. State of J&K, (2000) 7 SCC 561 (581): AIR 2000 SC 2386. [J&K Civil Services (CCA) Rules, 1956, R. 5]
Justification
Justification, a maintaining or showing a sufficient reason in court why the defendant did what he is called upon to answer, particularly in an action of … justification is a defence showing the libel to be true, or in an action of assault showing the violence to have been necessary. If in a libel action a defendant pleads justification he must give particulars of
Covenant
whom it is made the covenantee. A covenant being part of a deed is subject to the general rules for the construction of such instruents; as, first, to be always taken most strongly against the covenanter and … secondly, to be taken according to the intent of the parties; thirdly, to be construed ut res magis valeat quam pereat; fourthy, when no time is limited for its performance, that it be performed in a reasonable
Instrument
Instrument [instrumentum, Lat., fr. instruo, to prepare or provide], a formal legal writing-e.g., a record, charter, deed or transfer, or agreement. By s. 205(1)(viii.) of the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, 'Instrument' … unless the Statute cre-ates a Settlement.' See also Settled Land Act, 1925, s. 117; see also TRUST INSTRUMENT; VESTING INSTRUMENT. A telegram and an envelope with a falsified postmark have been held to be 'instruments' within the
Criminal Evidence Act
own defence. The Act of 1898, superseding [see Charnock v. Merchant, (1900) 1 QB 474] but not expressly repealing these particular enactments, provides (s. 1) that every person charged with an offence, and the wife or husband,
Enrollment
Enrollment, register, record; writing in which anything is recorded. The act of recording or registering, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., … So also where a decree was pronounced either by the Master of the Rolls or one of the Vice-Chancellors, and the party, instead of appealing to the Lord Chancellor or Lords Justices of Appeal, was desirous of
Fraud
which are now applicable in any Court of law, fraud may be described as an infraction of the rules of fair dealing. For the action at law intention and representation (q.v.) are material. In equity an act
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