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Seal, wax or wafer with an impression. By the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 73, deeds executed after 1925 must be signed or marked (by illiterates or blind persons), as well as sealed. As to the forgery of seals and dies, see Forgery Act, 1913, s. 5; and for the definition of 'seal,' see s. 18.An impression or sign that has legal consequence when applied to an instrument 2. A Eastening that must be broken before access can be obtained, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.By (English) R.S.C. Ord. LXI., r. 7, the seal o the central office is sufficient to authorize as evidence office copies, or certificates and other documents issued from the central office of the Supreme Court. As to the seal of district registrars, see Judic. Act, 1925, s. 9, and see CORPORATION.Means a device or process by which a stamp is made, and includes any wire or other accessory which is used for ensuring the integrity of any stamp. [Standards of Weight and Measures Act, 1976 (60 of 1976), s. 2(w)]...
Infectious diseases
Infectious diseases. It is an indictable offence to expose in a public frequented highway a person suffering from an infectious disorder, R. v. Vantandillo, (1815) 4 M. & S. 73. The (English) Public Health Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5, and 1 Edw. 8, c. 49), ss. 143 to 180, repealing (from October, 1937) ss. 120-143 of the (English) Public Health Act, 1875, contains various provisions calculated to prevent the spread of dangerous infectious diseases.Notification.--The (English) Public health Act, 1936, also repeals (from October, 1937) the (English) Infectious Diseases Notification Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 72), and enjoins the notification to the Medical Officer of Health of the district of certain specific diseases therein named, and also of other diseases added to the list by the local authority, s. 343 enacting that 'notifiable disease.'--Means any of the following diseases, namely, small-pox, cholera, diphtheria, membranous croup, erysipelas, the disease known as scarlatina or scarlet fe...
Execution of Deeds
Execution of Deeds, the signing, sealing, and delivery of them by the parties, as their own acts and deeds, in the presence of witnesses. By s. 73, L.P. Act, 1925, sealing alone is not sufficient; an individual must sign or mark the deed. Sect. 74, ibid., provides for the execution of deeds by companies and other corporations. See CORPORATION; DEED. As to compulsory executions, s. 47 of the (English) Judicature Act, 1925, replacing the 14th s. of the (English) Judicature Act, 1854, enacts, that when any person fails to comply with a judgment directing him to execute any conveyance, etc., the Court may order that the conveyance, etc., may be executed by such person as the Court may nominate to execute the deed instead, and that such execution shall have the same validity as if the conveyance, etc., had been executed by the party himself.The rule that a purchaser was entitled to have the conveyance executed in his presence is abrogated by (English) L.P. Act, 1925, s. 75, replacing the (E...
Advowson
Advowson [fr. advocare, Lat.], a right of presentation to, or the patronage of, a church or spiritual living; the person possessed of this right or patronage being called the patron or advocate (patronus aut advocatus), on account of his obligation to protect and defend the privileges of the particular benefice. An advowson is in the nature of a temporal property and spiritual trust. For the origin and history of advowsons, consult Mirehouse on Advowsons, pp. 1-6.There are several kinds of advowsons, viz.:--(I.) Presentative advowsons, subdivided into,Appendant.In gross, andPartly appendant, and partly in gross.(II.) Collative advowsons.(I.) A presentative advowson appendant is a right of patronage annexed to the possession of some corporeal hereditament. Thus, where an advowson has immemorially passed together with a manor or reputed manor by a simple grant of such manor, without particularly referring to the advowson, it is then said to be appendant, i.e., annexed to the demesnes of ...
Charges
Charges, expenses, costs. A trustee is entitled as a matter of right to his costs, charges and expenses properly incurred in relation to the trust, and they constitute a first charge on the trust property, both capital and income; see Stott v. Milne, (1884) 25 Ch D 710.Means any amount which may be demanded as a price for the rendering of some service or as price of some goods. Sree Gajanana Motor Transport Co. Ltd. v. State of Karnataka, (1977) 1 SCR 665: (1977) 1 SCC 37: AIR 1977 SC 418 (419).Includes all taxes, Shroff and Co. v. Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay, 1989 Supp (1) SCC 347.--The term 'charges' must be read ejusdem generis taking colour from the succeeding terms- rates, duties and taxes, Nagrik Upbhokta M. Manch v. Union of India, (2002) 5 SCC 466: AIR 2002 SC 2405 (2411). [Kerosene (Restriction on Use and Fixation of Ceiling Price) Order, 1993, clause 2(d)]The word 'charges' in Rule 7(1) should be given a wider meaning as denoting the accusations or imputations aga...
Commissioners for Oaths
Commissioners for Oaths. Masters extraordinary in Chancery acted in very early times as commissioners to administer oaths to persons making affidavits (see that title) before them concerning Chancery suits, and the judges of the Common Law courts were authorized, under 29 Car. 2, c. 5, by commission to empower 'what and as many persons as they should think fit and necessary' to take affidavits for one shilling fee concerning Common Law actions. The Masters in Chancery were succeeded by solicitors under 16 & 17 Vict. c. 78, appointed by the Lord Chancellor, the fee being one shilling and sixpence.The (English) Commissioners for Oaths Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 10), which amends and consolidates twenty-four enactments on the subject, enacts by s. 1 that the Lord Chancellor may, from time to time, by commission signed by him, appoint practising solicitors or other fit and proper persons to be commissioners for oaths; with power, in England or elsewhere, to administer any oath or take any...
Signature
Signature, a sign or mark impressed upon anything; a stamp, a mark; the name of a person written by himself either in full or by initials as regards his Christian name or names, and in full as regards his surname, or by initials only [In the goods of Blewitt, (1880) 5 PD 116], or by mark only, though he can write, Baker v. Dening, (1838) 8 Ad&E 94.Signature is required to authenticate a will (see WILL), a deed after 1925 (Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 73), a guarantee and other documents mentioned in the Statute of Frauds (see FRAUDS, STATUTE OF), and a risk note within the meaning of the seventh s. of the Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1854 (see RISK NOTE). Pleadings must be signed by counsel if settled by him, and if not, by the solicitor or the party; R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XIX., r. 4. No fee to counsel is allowed on taxation unless vouched by his signature, Ibid., Ord. LXV., r. 27, reg. 52.When signature by an agent is permissible, the writing of the name of the principal by the agent i...
Balconies
Balconies [fr. bala khaneh, Pers., an upper chamber], small galleries of wood, iron or stone on the outside of houses. The erection of them is regulated in London by s. 73 of the London Building Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 213), and by the London Building Act, 1930 (21 Geo. 5, c. 158), s. 79, Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Metropolis,' which directs that they must be of fireproof material....
Admitted
Admitted, means not admission of person whose signature is disputed in legal proceedings but it must be admission of person who claims that disputed signature was written by person by whom it purports to have been written and such person will signify to court that he has no objection if those sample signatures are compared with original one, Sunil Chowdhury v. Arup Kumar Ghosh, AIR 2006 Cal 109. [s. 73 and illustration (c) to s. 45 of Evidence Act, 1872]...
Grid Standards
Grid Standards, means the Grid Standards specified under clause (d) of s. 73 by the Authority. [Electri-city Act, 2003 (36 of 2003), s. 2(34)]...
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