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High Commission Court

by 1 Eliz. c. 1. It was instituted to vindicate the dignity and peace of the Church by reforming and correcting the ecclesiastical state and persons, and all manner of errors, heresies, schisms, abuses, offences, contempt's, and

Interest

the principal and the interest for the following year is calculated on that accumulation. By the (English) Law Reform (Miscellaneous Pro-visions) Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 41), s. 3(1): 'In any proceedings tried in

Insolvency

Chancery Division, see Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 34 and 1st Sched. And under the (English) Law Reform (Married Women and Tortfeasors) Act, 1935, a woman may be made bankrupt, even though she is not carrying

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In corrigibility

In corrigibility, means serious or persistent mis-behaviours by a child, making reformation by parental control impossible or unlikely, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 770.

Immediately

v. Ranbir Singh, 1995 Supp (4) SCC 275: AIR 1995 SC 2195 (2198). [U.P. Zamindari Abolition and Land Reform Rules (1952), R. 285 D] Immediately, in its strict sense excludes any intervening time but from earliest judicial

Ijaredar

State of Vindhya Pradesh, AIR 1961 SC 1204: (1961) 3 SCR 907. [V.P. Abolition of Jagirs and Land Reforms Act, 1952, s. 2(1)(e)]

Horticulture

indicates, means: 'the cultivation of the garden', Kasturi v. Gaon Sabha, (1989) 4 SCC 55 (56). [Delhi Land Reforms Act, 1954, s. 3(13)] Agriculture includes horticulture. [National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development Act, 1981, s. 2(a)]

Homestead

would only mean a dwelling house, Kochunju Nair v. Koshy Alexander, AIR 1999 SC 2272 (2273). [Kerala Land Reforms Act, 1963 (1 of 1964) s. 2(25)]

Freedom of a borough

Before the Municipal Corporations Act, 1835, these privileges, in many cases valuable either from conferring, especially before the Reform Act, 1832, a limited parliamentary franchise or from other causes, could be sold or given away; but the

Faggot votes

value for the mere sake of the vote; such a vote is called a faggot vote. The (English) Reform Bill of 1832 contained provisions which were directed against faggot voters. The Representation of the People Act, 1884,

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