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satisfaction piece : a formal written acknowledgment by an obligee (as a mortgagee) that an obligation has been satisfied and that the obligor is discharged ...
Satisfaction
Satisfaction, legal compensation; the recompense for an injury done, or the payment of money due and owing. See ACCORD.The giving of something with the intention, express or implied, that it is to extinguish some existing legal or moral obligation, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1343.The doctrine of satisfaction of legacies, portions, and debts means the gift of a thing with the intention, either expressed or implied, that it is to be taken either wholly or partly in extinguishment of some prior claim or demand. Of course, it is open to a donor expressly to provide that his subsequent gift shall be a satisfaction of a prior demand, so as to prevent such donee from claiming both. With regard to implied or presumable satisfactions, they have been divided in to the three following classes:-(1) The satisfaction of legacies by portions, otherwise called the ademption of legacies. Upon this subject Lord Eldon laid down in Ex parte Pye, (1811) 18 Ves. 140; 2 W. & T.L.C., that 'where a p...
Satisfaction of Governor
Satisfaction of Governor, wherever Constitution requires the satisfaction of Governor for exercise of any power or function, the satisfaction required by Constitution is not the personal satisfaction of Governor but the satisfaction in the Constitutional sense under the cabinet system of Government, implying that Governor exercises all his powers and functions by or under the Constitution on the aid and advice of the Council of Ministers, PU Myllai Hlychho v. State of Mizoram, (2005) 2 SCC 12....
satisfaction
satisfaction 1 a : the act or fact of satisfying b : execution of an accord by performance of the substituted obligation often used in the phrase accord and satisfaction compare accord, transaction c : a document indicating that an obligation has been satisfied [a of mortgage] 2 : the quality or state of being satisfied ...
Satisfaction on the Roll, Entry of
Satisfaction on the Roll, Entry of. As soon as a judgment is satisfied, by payment, levy, or otherwise, the defendant is entitled to have satisfaction entered upon the roll, 1 Chit. Arch. Prac., 12th Edn. 721 et seq, and see QUIETUS...
Ademption by satisfaction
Ademption by satisfaction, means an ademption that occurs because the testator, while alive, has already given property to the beneficiary with the intention of rendering the testamentary gift inoperative, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 40....
Proved to the satisfaction of the court
Proved to the satisfaction of the court, are com-prehensive enough and indeed seem to have been intended to empower the court to go into the merits of the allegations set by the party denying or disagreeing with the terms of compromise or agreement, and decide them so that the parties get full justice in the suit in which a decree in terms of the compromise is to be passed. Where the court finds during the course of the inquiry that the alleged agreement or compromise is vitiated by fraud, misrepresentation, etc., it cannot be said legally that an agreement has been arrived at. The agreement contemplated envisages the two parties coming to certain terms voluntarily and of a free will so as to put an end to the litigation pending between them in the court, C.K. Chandrahas Shetty v. Jayaram Sasani, AIR 1970 Mys 209....
Subjective satisfaction
Subjective satisfaction, means that 'satisfying oneself', Yakub Ismail Chhipa v. District Magistrate, Bharuch, 1996 Cr LR Guj 4....
Piece
A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole in any manner as by cutting splitting breaking or tearing a part a portion as a piece of sugar to break in pieces...
Bail-piece
Bail-piece, a piece of parchment containing the names of special bail, with other particulars, which, being signed by a judge, was filed in the court in which the action was pending, and notice of the bail having justified was then given to the opposite party....
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