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Home Dictionary Name: s 49 of the australian constitutionConstitution
Constitution, any regular form or system of government. Also a particular law, ordinance, or regulation made by the authority of any superior; as the Novel Constitutions of Justinian and his successors; the Constitutions of Clarendon; the Ecclesiastical Constitutions, etc.Constitution and 'Organisation' as against jurisdiction and powers', words do not include words 'jurisdiction' and powers' within their scope and power of 'Constitution' and 'organisation' of the Supreme Court and High Court nests with Parliament alone, Jamshed N. Guzdar v. State of Maharashtra, (2005) 2 SCC 59.Constitution is the mechanism under which the laws are to be made and not merely an Act which declares what the law is to be. A Constitution must not be construed in any narrow or pedantic sense, and that construction most beneficial to the widest possible amplitude of its power, must be adopted, India Cement Ltd. v. State of T.N., (1990) 1 SCC 12: AIR 1990 SC 85.Means the Constitution of India. [Supreme Court ...
Regulation
Regulation, has been defined as a rule or order prescribed for management or governance, Corpus Juris Secundum (Vol. 76, p. 615).Regulation, includes regulation, Constitution of India, Art. 13(3)(a).Means a rule or order prescribed for management or governance. As a matter of fact the regulation has to be interpreted in the context in which it is used and not dehors the context, and thus regulation also includes a power to levy, Saurashtra Cement and Chemical Industries v. Union of India, AIR 2001 SC 8. [See Constitution of India, Sch. 7, List 1, Entry 54; Mines and Minerals (Regulation and Development) Act, 1957, s. 2]Means the regulations made by the council under s. 40. [Maharashtra State Council for Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy Act, 2002, s. 2(r)]The expression 'regulation' in a given case may amount to prohibition, Talcher Municipality v. Talcher Regulated Market Committee, (2004) 6 SCC 178 (181). (Orissa Municipalities Act, 1950)The act or process of controlling by rule...
Inter-State Council
Inter-State Council, in Australia an inter-State Commission is established for the execution and maintenance within the Commonwealth of the provisions of the Australian Constitution relating to trade and commerce; in U.S.A. the Council of State Governments is created to consider inter-State problems of broadest character, Commentary on the Constitution of India, Durga Das Basu, 6th Edn., Vol. K, p. 200.Inter-State Council, in India, the Inter-State Council is established by the President by an Order in the public interest the President defines the nature of duties to be performed by it and its organisation and procedure; the duties of the Council are:(a) to inquire into and advise upon disputes which may have arises between States;(b) to investigate and discuss subject of common interest between the Union and the States or between two or more States;(c) to make recommendation upon any such subject particularly for better co-ordination of policy and action with respect to that subject, ...
Deposit
Deposit, money paid to a person as an earnest or security for the performance of some contract, especially a contract for the sale of real estate. Also a naked bailment of goods to be kept for the bailor without recompense, and to be returned when the bailor shall require it. The appellation and the definition are both derived from the civil law. Depositum est quod custodiendum alicui datum est. It is, in the civil law, divisible into two kinds: (1) necessary, made upon some sudden emergency, and from some pressing necessity; as, for instance, in case of a fire, a shipwreck, or other overwhelming calamity, when property is confided to any person whom the depositor may meet without proper opportunity for reflection or choice, and thence it is called miserabile depositum; (2) voluntary, which arises from the mere consent and agreement of the parties. the Common Law has made no such division. There is another class of deposits, called involuntary, which may be without the assent or even k...
Registration of title of land
Registration of title of land. The (English) Land Registration Act, 1925 (15 Geo. 5, c. 21), repeals and re-enacts the (English) Land Transfer Acts, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 87) and 1897 (60 & 61 Vict. c. 65), with amendments in keeping with innovations which were introduced by the property laws of 1925. Its object is to simplify the indicia of land ownership and transfer by mere inscription and transcription in a register. The advantages which are claimed for the system are (a) purchasers for value of an absolute or good leasehold title are absolved from any inquiry into the title other than it is shown to be on the register; (b) certain equitable claims which would be binding on the land under the general law and cannot be removed or over-reached without onerous formalities do not affect such purchasers; (c) the method of conveyance or charge is simple; (d) subject to the statutory provisions, registration guarantees the title to purchasers for value and mortgagees. It should be observ...
Tail
Tail [fr. tailler, Fr., to prune]. An estate-tail was formerly a freehold of inheritance and is now an equitable interest which may be created after 1925 in respect of personalty as well as realty by way of trust and which (if not barred or disposed of by will after 1925) will devolve inequity on the person who would have taken realty as heir of the body or as tenant by the curtesy if the Law of Property Act, 1925, had not been passed [s. 130 (4) (ibid.)]The limitation of an estate so that it can be inherited only by the fee owner's issue or class of issue, Black's Law dictionary 7th Edn., p. 1466.An estate-tail in land now constitutes a settlement. [(English) Settled Land Act, 1925, s. 1]With this and other statutory modifications under the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, the rules relating to this form of estate are still applicable (a) in the investigation of all titles to land in existence on the 31st December, 1925; (b) in the construction of equitable interests into which th...
Calcutta, Bishop of
Calcutta, Bishop of, the metropolitan bishop of India, 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 85, s. 94; and see 53 Geo. 3, c. 155, s. 49; 34 & 35 Vict. c. 62, and Vict. c. 13. These have been replaced, see the Government of India Act, 1915 (c. 61), ss. 115 et seq., and the Indian Church Act, 1927 (c. 40), which defines as the occupant for the time being of the see of Calcutta, whether or not that See is constituted an Archiepiscopal See....
Official trustee of charity lands
Official trustee of charity lands, the secretary for the time being of the Charity Commissioners, who is constituted a corporation sole by that name for taking and holding charity lands: see (English) Charitable Trusts Act, 1853, s. 49; Charitable Trusts Amendment Act, 1855, s. 15....
Executor
Executor. A person appointed by a testator to carry out the directions and requests in his will, and to dispose of the property according to his testamentary provisions after his decease.One who performs or carries out some act, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 591.The leading duties and responsibilities of an executor may be thus classed:-(1) He will not be allowed as against creditors extravagant funeral expenses if the testator died insolvent; and if he neglects to secure the property, and loss ensue, he will be personally liable for a devastavit, but will not be responsible for mere neglect to take out probate (Re Stevens, (1898) 1 Ch 162). See DEVASTAVIT.(2) By operation of law by virtue of his office he takes a title to the personal property of the testator which vests him with full power ovr the testator's chattels, Attenborough v. Solomon, 1913 AC 76, and by Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 1, extending and amending the Land Transfer Act, 1897, real property devolves...
Designs
Designs. The registration of and rights in designs are governed by the Patents and Designs Act, 1907, as amended by the Patents and Designs Acts,1919, 1928 and 1932 (cited as the Patents and Designs Acts, 1907 to 1932), and the Patent Rules, 1932 S. R. & O. 1932, No. 873.'Design' means only the features of shape, configuration, pattern or ornament applied to any article by any industrial process or means, whether manual, mechanical, or chemical, separate or combined, which in the finished article appeal to and are judged solely by the eye; but does not include any mode or principle of construction, or which is in substance a mere mechanical device (s. 19, Act of 1919).And s. 49 of the principal Act (Act of 1919) (English), as amended, provides as follows:--49.--(1) The comptroller may, on the application made in the prescribed form and manner of any person claiming to be the proprietor of any new or original design not previously published in the United Kingdom, register the design und...