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Eleemosynary

charity, not for profits, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 538. Is a charitable object intended to provide relief from distress to humans based on Christian Values, Director of Income Tax v. Bharat Diamond Bourse, (2003) 1

Designated by the conflict rules

personal and proprietary effect of marriage, so long as those provisions could not be derogated from, CVC (Ancillary) Relief Nuptial Settlement, (2004) 2 WLR 146 [Recognition of Trusts Act, 1985, Art. 15 (English)]

Flemene frit, Flemenes frinthe, Flymena frynthe

Flemene frit, Flemenes frinthe, Flymena frynthe, the reception or relief of a fugitive or outlaw, Jac. Law Dict.

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Equity

order to meet novel exigencies. While it aims to assist the defects of the Common Law, by extending relief to those rights of property which the strict law does not recognize, and by giving more ample and

Equity of redemption

of a legal estate had no legal remedy against the estate itself but could only apply for equitable relief; this is still the casein regard to mortgagees of equitable interests. The following changes, however, have been introduced.

Finding

Bhagwandas, AIR 1965 SC 342: (1964) 6 SCR 411. The expression 'finding' means a finding necessary for giving relief in respect of the assessment for the year in question and, therefore, no decision can be said to

Fraud

fraud is infinite: 'Crescit in orbe dolus'; and were the Courts to prescribe the limits of their equitable relief against fraud, or to define the species of evidence receivable in support of it, their decrees would be

Greenwich hospital

Greenwich hospital. An institution for the relief of seamen, now vested in the Admiralty. See 1 Jac. 2, c. 18, rep. 6 Geo. 4, c.

Hospitals

estate in fee-simple may, by deed enrolled in Chancery, erect and found a hospital for the sustenance and relief of 'the maimed, poor, needy, or impotent people'; but no such hospital may be erected unless endowed with

Indemnity

& 32 Vict. c. 72, s. 16. Indemnity Acts have also been often passed after insurrections for the relief of those engaged in their suppression; see, e.g., Phillips v. Eyre, (1869) LR 4 QB 243, in which

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