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Bunga, a Bunga is 'a hostel where pilgrims, coming from various parts of India, to pay a visit to the Golden Temple, stay', Shiromani Gurudwara Prabhandak Committee v. Raja Shu Ratan Dev Singh, AIR 1955 SC 576 (578)....

Decree

Decree [fr. decretum, Lat.], an edict, a law.The term was also used for the judgment of a Court of Equity. But by the (English) Judicature Acts, 1873 and 1875, the expression judgment, which was formerly used only in Courts of Common Law, is adopted in reference to the decisions of all Divisions of the Supreme Court, and [(English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 225, replacing (English) Act of 1873, s. 100] includes decree. See JUDGMENT, and consult Seton on Decrees. In Scotland the judgment of a Court disposing of a case (accent on first syllable).Decree means a formal expression of an adjudication which the Court conclusively and finally determines the rights of the parties with regard to all or any of the matters in controversy in the suit, Deep Chand v. Land Acquisition Officer, (1994) 4 SCC 99: AIR 1994 SC 1901.A decree in invitum is not an instrument securing money or other property; such a decree is a record of the formal adjudication of the Court relating to a right claimed by a part...

Lend and loan

Lend and loan, to deliver to another a thing for use on condition that the thing lent shall be returned with or without compensation for the use made of it by the person to whom it was lent, Ram Ratan Gupta v. Director of Enforcement, Foreign Exchange Regulation, (1966) 1 SCR 651: AIR 1966 SC 495 (496). [Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1947, s. 4(1)]...

Owelty

Owelty, equality, Co. Litt. 169.The suit property, being incapable of division in specie, there is no alternative but to resort to the process owelty, according to which, the rights and interests of the parties in the property will be separated, only by allowing one of them to retain the whole of the suit property on payment of just compensation to the other, Badri Narain Prasad Choudhary v. Nil Ratan Sarkar, (1978) 3 SCC 30: AIR 1978 SC 845, See also T.S. Swaminatha v. Official Receiver, AIR 1957 SC 577: 1957 SCR 775....

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