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Pairing-off
Pairing-off, a practice which is said to have originated in the time of Cromwell, whereby two members of the House of Commons, or other … assembly, of opposite opinions, agree to absent themselves from voting on a particular division or during a given period.
Magna Carta
of depositing one in every diocese. Two of these are extant in the British Museum, and it is said there are two others in existence, one in the cathedral at Salisbury, and the other in that at … and the inalienable right of the subject for nearly a century after the conferences at Runningmede, during which period the country was kept in a constant state of alarm and excitement by the struggles of the barons'
Hundred
the county, the nature of which is not known with certainty. In the Dialogus de Scaccario, it is said that a hunred 'ex hydarum aliquot centenariis, sed non determinatis constat; quidam enim ex pluribus, quidam ex pauucioribus … hundred fee families. Certain it is that whatever may have been its original organization, the hundred, at the period when it became known to us, differed greatly as to the extent in the several parts of England.
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Tenure
paramount incidents; and (2) a term of years absolute (see LAND). The idea of tenure or holding is said to derive from feudalism, which separated the dominium directum (the dominion of the soil), which it placed mediately, … Law of Property Act, 1925. See COPYHOLD; ESCHEAT. Terce, thirds; Scots term. See WIDOW'S TERCE. Tenure means the period for which an incumbent of office holds it, Union of India v. Tulsiram Patel, AIR 1985 SC 1416:
Abstract of title
Registration Act, 1925, s. 110, and Brickdale and Stewart-Wallace on the Land Registration Act, 1925. An abstract is said to be perfect if it deduces the title from the date fixed by the contract or by statute … and other documents, and stating the facts on which it depends: fc. 1 Pres. 42, 207. The statutory period is thirty years, Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 44, unless an earlier title may be required by
Title
is frequently styled the mere right, jus merum; and the estate of the owner is in such cases said to be totally divested and put to a right. 4. A complete legal title. This exists where the … as to title are-- 1. That there be a deduction of title to the legal estate for a period of thirty years, unless an earlier title than forty years was required under the Vendor and Purchaser Act,
Cost-book mining companies
357) has preserved the then existing provisions of the earlier Acts. Subject to the statutory provisions, it maybe said that these companies are formed thus:-A number of adventures, who have obtained permission from the landowner to work … which are signed by all present. A license to try for ores, for twelve months, or some short period, is then obtained; followed, if the search be promising, by a set, that is, a lease of the
Income
yield a regular revenue. These essential characteristics are vital in understanding the term 'income'. Therefore, it can be said that, though 'income' is receipt in the hand of its receipt, every receipt would not partake the character … source deprived. The definition of 'income' in Shaw Wallace & Co. case, 1932 (59) IA 206, as a periodical monetary return coming in with some sort of regularity, or expected regularity, from definite sources must be read
Uses
statute transferred the (legal) seisin, estate or possession accordingly to the cestui que use. It has been generally said that one object aimed at by this statute was the total destruction of the use, by effecting an … the grant, he who was capable should take the whole, and that joint tenants cannot take at different periods. But since the introduction of uses, if A. made a feoffment in fee, to the use of B.
Pardon
A. Akers-Douglas. To our Trusty and Well-Beloved The Justices of the Central Criminal Court, The Clerk of the said Court, and all others whom it may concern.} By his Majesty's Commons. In modern times pardons have only … the Executive, because the judiciary has no such 'mercy jurisdiction'. But the suspension of the sentence for the period when this Court is in seizin of the case, K.M. Nanavati v. State of Bombay, AIR 1961 SC
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