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Permanent malikana

Permanent malikana, see, State of Bihar v. Maharaja Pratap Singh Bahadur, AIR 1969 SC 164. [Bihar Land Reforms Act 1950 (30 of 1950), s. 24A]

Passenger

seating accommodation provided or by stranding in vehicles where travel by standing is specially permitted. Any person who reforms the journey in the bus will be a passenger. He will continue to be a passenger even at

Parole

time appointed, or not to take up arms till exchanged. Release on parole is a wing of the reformative process and is expected to provide opportunity to the prisoner to transform himself into a useful citizen. It

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Papist

the 36th Article of Religion maintain the supreme ecclesiastical power of the sovereign. From the date of the Reformation Papists, either under that title or under the title of persons professing the Popish religion, or of Popish

Oyer and Terminer

sometimes written determiner. When any sudden insurrection takes place, or any public outrage is committed which requires speedy reformation, or there is a press of business, then a special commission is immediately granted.

Organised crime

to be felt and dealt with by all concerned including the judiciary, the executive, the politicians, the social reformers, the intelligentsia and the law enforcing agency, State of Maharashtra v. Bharat Chaganlal Raghani, (2001) 9 SCC 1.

Obdurate legal obscurantism

Obdurate legal obscurantism, Hardened (stubborn) tendency to oppose enquiry, enlightenment or reform, '...the obdurate legal obscurantism of litigants leads to protraction of proceedings' [Jas Raj v. Hem Raj, AIR 1977

Directors

v. Nixan, (1799) 8 TR 196, that there was no right of contribution amongst tortfeasors (see now LAW REFORM). S. 372 of the Act of 1929 allows the Court in certain cases to relieve a director from

Socialism

A theory or system of social reform which contemplates a complete reconstruction of society with a more just and equitable distribution of property and labor

Deceit

right of contribution, see s. 37(3), from which (apparently) guilty promotes have been excluded. See also (English) Law Reform (Misc. Pr.) Act, 1935, s. 6. The injured shareholder may also sue the company for rescission. See Frankenburg

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