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Whoever, includes association of persons, such as firm, and does not connote natural person alone, M/s Rai Bahadur Seth Shreeram Durgaprasad v. Director of Enforcement, AIR 1987 SC 1364.The word 'whoever' in sub-s. (1) of s. 23 of the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1947 before its amendment was comprehensive enough to include an association of persons, such as a firm, and did not connote a natural person alone, Rai Bahadur Seth Shreeram Durgaprasad v. Director of Enforcement, AIR 1987 SC 1364 (1367): (1987) 3 SCC 27: (1987) 3 SCR 137. [Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1947, s. 23(1), 239c), 12(c) (as stood prior to the Amendment Act, 39 of 1957]The word 'whoever' occurring at the opening part of s. 202 of the Penal Code refers to a person other than the offender and has no application to the person who is alleged to have committed the principal offence. This is so because there is no law which casts a duty on a criminal to give information which would incriminate himself. That apart ...
Vest
Vest, (1) Either to place in possession; to make possessor of; or, to give an absolute interest in property when a named period or event occurs. (2) (of a right or interest) Its coming into the possession of any one; enuring to the benefit of any one.The word 'vest' has not got a fixed connotation, meaning in all cases that the property is owned by the person or the authority in whom it vests. It may vest in title, or it may vest in possession, or it may vest in a limited sense, as indicated in the context in which it may have been used in a particular piece of legislation, Fruit and Vegetable Merchants Union v. Delhi Improvement Trust, AIR 1957 SC 344 (356): (1957) SCR 1. [U.P. Town Improvement Act (8 of 1819)]The property must not only be owned by the Corporation, it must also be in the occupation of the Corporation itself. It is in this sense that the words 'vesting' has been used. 'Vesting' often means 'vesting' in possession, Municipal Corpora-tion of Hyderabad v. P.N. Murthy, AIR...
Admittance
Admittance, giving possession of a copyhold estate now abolished by the (English) L. P. Act, 1922. See COPYHOLDS; formerly it was of three kinds: (1) Upon a voluntary grant by the lord, where the land has escheated or reverted to him. (2) Upon surrender by the former tenant. (3) Upon descent, where the heir became tenant on his ancestor's death. Land formerly copyhold now being freehold vests in the person having the best right to be admitted, see (English) L.P. Act, 1922, 12th Schedule (8) as amended, and (English) L. P. Act, 1925, s. 202 and 1st Schedule, Part II., (English) S. L. Act, 1925, 2nd Schedule, and see re King's Theatre, (1929) 1 Ch 483....
Freedom of a borough
Freedom of a borough, the right to enjoy the privileges of a freeman. 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 Act of 1835, s. 3, enacted that no person should be admitted a freeman by gift or purchase, and s. 202 of the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, repeats this enactment, which is, however, qualified by the Honorary Freedom of Boroughs Act, 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 29), in favour of the admission to be honorary freemen of persons of distinction and persons who have rendered eminent services to the borough (see now (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), ss. 259-265, which reproduces the provisions of the former Acts). The right of a freeman, as such, to a vote at parliamentary elections was abolished by the (English) Representation of the People Act, 1...
Vacation, eviction
Vacation, eviction, eviction requires vacation of the land and vacation does not mean that anything done upon the land which was unauthorised is to be allowed to remain and only the person responsible for doing the unlawful act is to be removed from the land. The words 'eviction' and 'vacation' do not mean mere physical removal of the occupant is clear from the very nature of the right which the respondent in the present case had. His right was confined to the use and occupation of the land for the purpose for which he held it from Government, i.e., for agricultural purposes and when he is evicted and is asked to vacate the land, it must mean that his rights come to an end. For the purpose of vacation it is necessary that any unauthorised construction put up must also be removed otherwise there cannot be any vacation of the land nor can the land be put to effective use for the purpose for which agricultural lands are normally accepted to be used, State of Bombay v. Fakir Umar Dhanse, A...
Married women's property
Married women's property, At Common Law, a woman, by marrying, transferred the ownership of all her property, real and personal, present and future, to her husband absolutely, so that he might sell, pay his debts out of, give away, or dispose by will of it as he pleased, with these exceptions and modifications:-1) Her freehold estate became his to manage and take the profits of during the joint lives only. After his death, leaving her surviving, it passed to her absolutely; after her death, leaving him surviving, provided that it was an estate in possession and issue who could in her it had been born during the marriage, it passed to him as 'tenant by the curtesy (q.v.) of England,' during his life, and after his death to her heir-at-law.(2) Her leasehold estate, her personal estate in expectancy, and the debts owing to her and other 'choses in action,' became his absolutely if he did some act to appropriate or reduce them into possession during the marriage, or if he survived her. If ...
Workmen's Compensation Act
Workmen's Compensation Act. (English) The Workmen's Compensation Act, 1897, introduced the principle of compulsory insurance of workmen by employers in a restricted number of trades. The gist of a right to compensation under the Acts is 'accident arising out of and in the course of the employment' causing personal injury to a workman (Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925 [15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 84), s. 1 (1)] The compensation is not damages for negligence or any other tort at common law or by statute (see COMPBELL (LORD) ACTS (Fatal Accidents Acts, 1846-1908) and Employers Liability Act, 1880, sub tit. MASTER AND SERVANT), and an employer is not liable both for damages and compensation; but the workman or his representatives may elect between the remedies, and in an unsuccessful action for damages the Court may assess or refer the question of compensation to the proper tribunal, subject to an equitable order for costs (Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925, s. 25). Compensation is not payable for a...
King's Bench
King's Bench. The Court of King's or Queen's bench (so called because the King used formerly to sit there in person (though the judges determined the causes), the style of the Court still being coram ipso rege, or coram ipsa regina) was a Court of record, and the Supreme Court of Common Law in the kingdom, consisting of a chief justice and four puisne justices, who were by their office the sovereign conservators of the peace and supreme coroners of the land.This court, which was the remnant of the aula regia, was not, nor could be, from the very nature and constitution of it, fixed to any certain place, but might follow the King's person wherever he went, for which reason all process issuing out of this Court in the King's name was returnable 'ubicunque fuerimus in Anglia.' For some centuries, and until the opening of the Royal Courts, the court usually sat at Westminster, being an ancient palace of the Crown, but might remove with the King as he thought proper to command.The jurisdict...
Acknowledgement of a wife's assurance
Acknowledgement of a wife's assurance. If, before 1st January, 1925 [see (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 167], a woman married before 1883 disposed of her estate or interest in lands or her revisionary interest in personal property she was required, unless her title thereto had accrued since 1882, or unless she was entitled thereto for her separate use to comply with the formalities prescribed by the (English) Fines and Recoveries Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 74), ss. 77-91, with regard to land, and by 20 & 21 Vict. C. 57, commonly called (English) 'Malins's Act,' which incorporated the procedure of the (English) Fines and Recoveries Act, with regard to reversionary interests in personal estate.The (English) Fines and Recoveries Act requiredthe acknowledgment to be made before two commissioners, but the 7th section of the (English) Conveyancing Act, 1882, substituted one only, and also dispensed with the affidavit and certificate of acknowledgment required by the former Act; se...
Lord Mayor's Court in London
Lord Mayor's Court in London. An inferior [Cox v. Mayor of London, (1867) LR 2 HL 239] Court of the king, held before the lord mayor and aldermen. Its practice and procedure were amended and its powers enlarged by the Mayor's Court of London Procedure Act, 1857. In this Court the recorder presided, or, in his absence, the common serjeant (s. 43), or the assistant judge appointed under the Borough Courts of Record Act, 1872. The Mayor's and City of London Court Act, 1920, amalgamated the City of London Court (see that title) (the jurisdiction of which was that of county Court) with the Mayor's Court, and by the County Court Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 53), s. 186, now to be deemed a county Court, subject to the Mayor's Court Act of 1920, and the London (City) Small Debts Extension Act, 1852, with all its powers, rights and privileges preserved; and see Bowater & Sons Ltd. v. Davidson's Paper Sales, (1936) 1 KB 465. The conjoint Court thus established has all the powers and jurisdictio...
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