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Void

Kerala v. M.K. Kunhikannan Nambiar Manjeri Manikoth, AIR 1996 SC 906 (908): (1996) 1 SCC 435. [Kerala Land Reforms Act, 1964 (1 of 1964), s. 83] The expression 'void' means without force, effect or consequence, not binding;

Declaratory

Declaratory, as the Kerala Land Reforms Act, 1963 is 'declaratory', the presumption against construing it retrospectively so as to respect vested rights, is not

University

a new college or university shall be submitted to Parliament as well as to the Sovereign in Council. Reforms.-In 1854, by 17 & 18 Vict. c. 81, commissioners were appointed with powers to frame statutes for the

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Tulchan Bishops

a name derisively applied to the persons appointed as titular bishops to the Scottish sees immediately after the Reformation, in whose names the revenues of the sees were drawn by the lay barons who had impropriated them,

Tail

conveyance of fee-simple estates. If the tenant-in-tail be a feme covert (under coverture which began before 1883) (Law Reform (M. W. and T.) Act, 1935, s. 4, and (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 167), her

Seduction

service, but also the wounded feeling of the parent or person standing in loco parentis. The (English) Law Reform (Miscellaneous Pro-visions) Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 41), expressly excepts actions for seduction, so that

Scot and lot voters

Scot and lot voters, voters in certain boroughs en-titled before the Reform Act of 1832 to the franchise in virtue of their paying this contribution; the rights of those living

Sayar

Sayar, 'sayar' income is dealt with in s. 39(1)(c) of the U.P. Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950. Sayar is not defined in the Act but in s. 3(26) of the Act the word

Roman Catholics

penal laws, were passed against Roman Catholics, generally under the name of Papists (see that title), after the Reformation, an Act of Elizabeth, for instance, 13 Eliz. c. 2, punishing with the penalties of a pr'munire (see

Right in or over land/Land tenure

in List 11 of Seventh Schedule to the Constitution were sufficiently comprehen-sive to include measures of land tenure reforms, that sought to limit the extent of land in cultivating possession of the landowner in order to release

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