Revoke - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: revoke Page: 2Recall
Recall, to supersede a minister, or deprive him of his office; also a revoke a judgment on a matter of fact.Removal of a public official from office by popular vote, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1274....
Office of profit
Office of profit, a person who was a Pramukh at the time of filing of nomination papers and who was drawing a honorarium was not holding an office of profit, Umrao Singh v. Yeshwant Singh, AIR 1970 Raj 134 (141). [Constitution of India, Art. 102(1)(a)]It need not be in the service of Government. Generally it is understood that an office means a position to which certain duties are attached. An office of profit involves two elements namely that there should be such an office and that it should carry some remunerations. It is not the same as holding a post under the Government and therefore for holding an office of profit under the Government, a person need not be in the service of the Government, Satrucharla Chandrasekhar Raju v. Vyricherla Pradeep Kumar Devi, AIR 1992 SC 1959: (1992) 4 SCC 404.The word 'office' does not, therefore, necessarily imply that it must have an existence apart from the person, who may hold it. Cases are known, in which, in order to make use of the Special know...
Mutual testaments
Mutual testaments, wills made by two persons who leave their effects reciprocally to the survivor. Either will may be revoked by notice during the joint lives, but the survivor cannot revoke his or her will if the benefit of the other will has been taken, see Stone v. Hoskins 1905, P. 194; In Estate of Heys, 1914, P. 192....
Irrevocable
Irrevocable, incapable of being revoked; powers of appointment are sometimes executed so as to be irrevocable (see POWERS OF APPOINTMENT); no will is ever irrevocable. A contract not to revoke a will is valid, for breach of which an action will lie, but the covenant is not specifically enforceable, Robinson v. Ommanney, (1882) 23 CD 285....
Colonial coinage
Colonial coinage. By s. 11 (8) of the (English) Coinage Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 10), replacing the (English) Colonial Branch Mint Act, 1866 (29 & 30 Vict. c.65) (which applied to gold coins only), the King on Council may make coins coined in the colonies legal tender in England, and may revoke such order, and see (English) Coinage Act, 1920 (10 Geo. 5, c. 3), s. 1. See TENDER....
Revocation of agency
Revocation of agency. An agency is dissolved or determined in several ways:-(I) by the act of the principal, either(a) Express, as(1) By direct and formal writing, publicly a advertised;(2) By informal writing to the agent privately;(3) By parol; or(b) Implied from circumstances as by appointing another person to do the same act, where the authority of both would be incompatible.The exceptions to the power of the principal to revoke his agent's authority at mere pleasure are--(1) When the principal has expressly stipulated that the authority shall be irrevocable, and the agent has also an interest in its execution.(2) Where an authority or power is coupled with an interest, or is given for a valuable consideration, or is a part of a security, unless there is an express stipulation that it shall be revocable.(3) When an agent's act in pursuance of his authority has become obligatory, for nemo potest mutare consilium suum in alterius injuriam.(II.) By the agent's giving notice to his pri...
Alien
Alien [fr. alienigena, alibi natus, Lat.], a person not born within His Majesty's dominions and allegiance (q.v.). See definitions in the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Acts, 1914 and 1933, infra. At common law aliens were subject to very many disqualifications, the nature of which is shown by the (English) Act of 1844, 7 & 8 Vict. c. 66, which greatly relaxed the law in their favour. It provided, inter alia, that every person born of a British mother should be capable of holding real or personal estate; that alien friends might hold every species of personal property except chattels real; that subjects of a friendly power might hold lands, etc., for the purposes of residence or business for a term not exceeding twenty-one years; and it also provided for aliens becoming naturalized.Alien, (UK) is a person who is neither a Common-wealth citizen nor a British protected person nor a citizen of the Republic of Ireland. Aliens therefore include both persons having the nationality ...
power
power 1 : capability of acting or of producing an effect [parties of unequal bargaining ] 2 a : authority or capacity to act that is delegated by law or constitution often used in pl. commerce power often cap C&P : the power delegated to Congress under Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution to regulate commerce esp. among the states see also commerce clause concurrent power : a power that is held simultaneously by more than one entity ;specif : a power delegated to the federal government by the U.S. Constitution that is also held by the states enu·mer·at·ed powers [i-nü-mə-rā-təd-, -nyü-] : the powers specifically named and delegated to the federal government or prohibited to be exercised by the states under the U.S. Constitution compare reserved powers in this entry executive power : the power delegated to the executive of a government ;specif : any or all of the powers delegated to the president under Article II of the U.S...
adeem
adeem [from ademption, after such pairs as redemption : redeem] : to revoke or satisfy (as a legacy) by ademption ...
Agreement to transfer
Agreement to transfer, is interpartes and can always be changed and also means that no person shall revoke or alter an agreement for the transfer of an immovable property or transfer such property in respect of which as statement has been furnished, DLF Universal Ltd. v. Appropriate Authority, (2000) 5 SCC 552....
- << Prev.
- Next >>