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Innkeeper, means a person who, for compensation, keeps open a public house for the lodging and entertainment of travellers. A keeper of a boarding house is usually not considered an innkeeper, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 792.Innkeeper, proprietor of a common inn for the accommodation of travelers in general.All persons are deemed innkeepers who keep houses where a traveler is furnished, for profit, with everything which he has occasion for whilst on his way. They are bound to take in all travelers and wayfaring persons, and to entertain them for a reasonable time [see Lamond v. Richard, (1897) 1 QB 541] if they can accommodate them, at a reasonable charge, provided they behave themselves properly; and they have a lien upon the goods of their guests for board and lodging, but may not detain their persons or seize their clothing in actual wear. They are also liable for any loss of or injury to goods, money, and baggage of their guests; and responsible for the acts of their serva...
Heat of passion
Heat of passion, heat of passion requires that there must be no time for the passions to cool down, Ghapoo Yadav v. State of Madhya Pradesh, (2003) 3 SCC 528: AIR 2003 SC 1620 (1622). (Indian Penal Code, s. 300, Exception 4)See also Sridhar Bhuyan v. State of Orissa.Rage, terms, or furious hatred sudden aroused by some immediate provocation, usu. another person's words or action, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 726.Requires that there must be no time for the passion to cool down and the parties have worked themselves into a furry on account of the verbal altercation in the beginning, Sandhya Jadhav v. State of Maharashtra, (2006) 4 SCC 653: (2006) 4 JT 316: (2006) 3 SCALE 665: (2006) 3 Supreme 217: (2006) 3 SLT 249: (2006) 4 SCJ 489: (2006) 7 SCJD 358: (2006) 5 SRJ 93: 2006 Cr LJ 2111: (2006) 2 SCC (Cri) 394: (2006) 2 Crimes 5 (SC): (2006) 1 JCC 599: (2006) 2 Recent CR 472: (2006) 4 CRJ 437.Subsequent procedures did not impose a heavier penalty than the indeterminate sentence impo...
Goodwill
Goodwill, may be the whole advantage belonging to the firm, its reputation as also connection thereof. It, thus, means that every affirmative advantage as contrasted with negative advantage that has been acquired in carrying on the business whether connected with the premises of business or its name or style, everything connected with or carrying the benefit of the business, Ramnik Vallabhdas Madhwani v. Taraben Pravinlal Madhwani, (2004) 1 SCC 407: AIR 2004 SC 1084 (Partnership Act, 1932, s. 55).A business's reputation, patronage, and other intan-gible assets that are considered when apprising the business, esp. for purchase; The ability to earn income in excess of the an come that would be expected from the business veined as a mere collec-tion of assets, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 703.The advantage or benefit which is acquired by a business, beyond the mere value of the capital, stock, funds, or property employed therein, incon-sequence of the general public patronage and ...
trespass
trespass [Anglo-French trespas violation of the law, actionable wrong, from Old French, crossing, passage, from trespasser to go across, from tres across + passer to pass] : wrongful conduct causing harm to another: as a : a willful act or active negligence as distinguished from a mere omission of a duty that causes an injury to or invasion of the person, rights, or esp. property of another ;also : the common-law form of action for redress of injuries directly caused by such a wrongful act compare trespass on the case in this entry b : trespass quare clausum fregit in this entry con·tinu·ing trespass : a trespass that continues until the act (as of depriving another of his or her property without the intent to steal it) or instrumentality (as an object placed wrongfully on another's land) causing it is ended or removed criminal trespass : trespass to property that is forbidden by statute and punishable as a crime as distinguished from trespass that creates a cause o...
bill
bill 1 : a draft of a law presented to a legislature for enactment ;also : the law itself [the GI ] ap·pro·pri·a·tions bill [ə-prō-prē-ā-shənz-] : a bill providing money for government expenses and programs NOTE: Appropriations bills originate in the House of Representatives. bill of attainder 1 : a legislative act formerly permitted that attainted a person and imposed a sentence of death without benefit of a judicial trial see also attainder compare bill of pains and penalties in this entry 2 : a legislative act that imposes any punishment on a named or implied individual or group without a trial NOTE: Bills of attainder are prohibited by Article I of the U.S. Constitution. bill of pains and penalties : a legislative act formerly permitted that imposed a punishment less severe than death without benefit of a judicial trial compare bill of attainder in this entry NOTE: The term bill of attainder is often used to include bills of p...
Trial
Trial, does not exclude a proceeding relating to the delivery of judgment, Inayat v. Rex, AIR 1950 All 369: 1950 All LJ 127: 1950 All WR 245.Trial, is not necessary that the trial must be a full-dressed or a jury trial or a trial which concludes only after taking evidence of the parties in support of their respective cases, Dipak Chandra Ruhidas v. Chanden Kumar Sarkar, AIR 2003 SC 3701.Trial, is the conclusion, by a competent tribunal, of question in issue in legal proceedings, whether civil or criminal. Strouds Judicial Dictionary (5th Edn.) Indian Bank v. Maharashtra State Co-op. Marketing Federation Ltd., (1998) 5 SCC 69.Trial, is the examination by a competent court of the facts or laws in dispute, or put in issue in a case. It is the judicial examination of issues between the parties, whether they are of law or of fact, Sajjan Singh v. Bhagilal Pandya, AIR 1958 Raj 307.Trial, is understood as referring to the stage of the proceeding in a criminal case after the charge had been fr...
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