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Court

Courts of Quarter Sessions, the Court of Arches, the Consistory Court. Courts are either of record, where their acts and judicial proceedings are enrolled for a perpetual memorial and testimony, and they have power to fine and … Court, compensation officer appointed under (English) Bihar Land Reforms Act, 1950 is not a 'Court' within the meaning of s. 195(1)(b) of the Code of Criminal Procedure

Married women's property

to the enforcement of judgments and orders in all respects as if she was a feme sole (Law Reform (M. W. and Tortfeasors) Act, 1935, s. 1). Except that she cannot be made bankrupt on any judgment … Women's Property Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 75), which repealed and consolidated with important amendments, the Acts of 1870 and 1874. S. 1 of this Act, as amended by the (English) Married Women's Property Act,

Husband and wife

Common Law in favour of the wife; and the statute law has, by s. 1 of the Law Reform (Married Women and Tortfeasors Act), 1935 (25 & 26 Geo. 5, c. 30), almost completely abolished the property … any such debts. Proceedings in connection with the rights of mar-riage are regulated by the (English) Matrimonial Causes Acts, 1925 and 1937, and the Judicature Act, 1925. See DIVORCE and MATRIMONIAL CAUSES. Proceedings of husband and wife

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Negligence

Statute, tit. 'Executors,' and the Fatal Accidents (Damage) Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 7). The (English) Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 41), amends the (English) Fatal Accidents Acts, 1846-1908,

Family

because it takes into consideration the existence of a widowed and divorced daughter, which is absent in other Acts. The meaning given by Explanation I to an adult unmarried person is an inclusive one and it includes … (1981) 1 SCC 166. The definition of 'family' as contained in S. 14K(c) of the West Bengal Land Reforms Act, 1955, is more realistic than the definitions of this term in similar laws for imposition of ceiling

Actio personalis moritur cum persona.

Simpson, 1909, AC 383. See DEPENDANT. A further restriction upon the doctrine has been effected by the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1934 (English) (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 41), which amends the law as to

Conclusive proof

has its own 'conclusive' evidentiary value to the extend provided in S. 72K(2) of the the Kerala Land Reforms Act, 1963 in proceedings before the Taluk Land Board. It will therefore be for the Board to arrive

Separate estate

contract any separate property which at that time or thereafter she is restrained from anticipating. The (English) Law Reform (Married Women and Tortfeasors) Act, 1935 (25 & 26 Geo. 5, c. 30), repealed the provisions of this

Holding

SC 1980 (1985): (1966) 3 SCR 724. The word 'hold' used in s. 7A of the Bihar Land Reforms Act, 1950 would mean that the intermediary must hold, as owner under a title and in occupation of

Occupant

Ghurahu, AIR 1979 SC 413: (1979) 3 SCC 23: (1979) 2 SCR 296. [U.P. Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950 (1 of 1951), s. 20(b)(i)] Occupant is a person who having obtained the right to possess

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