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Secondary use, a use limited to take effect in derogation of a preceding estate; otherwise called a shifting use, as a conveyance to the use of A. and his heirs, with a proviso that when B. returns from India, then to the use of C. and his heirs, Steph. Com. Vol. II., 'Present and Future Interests.'...
Shifting use
Shifting use, a secondary or executory use, which, when executed, operates in derogation of a preceding estate: as land conveyed to the use of A. and his heirs, with proviso that when B. pays a certain sum of money, the estate shall go to the use of C. and his heirs. The legal estates thereby created have been converted as from the 1st January, 1925, into equitable interests (see Law of Property Act, 1925, ss. 1 and 39 and the 1st Sch., Part I.). The instrument declaring the use if it was still in contingent operation on the 31st December, 1925, is a settlement within the meaning and for the purposes of the Settled Land Act, 1925, s. 1 (ii.) (b). See also SPRINGING USE....
Includes
Includes, as (i) to have as contents or part of contents; be made up of or contain; (ii) to add as part of something else; put in as part of a set, group or a category (iii) to contain as a secondary or minor ingredient or element, (Collins Dictionary of English Language).Is used in an interpretation clause, it must be construed as comprehending not only such things as they signify according to their nature and import but also those thing which the interpretation clause declares that they shall include, Scientific Engg. House (P) Ltd. v. C.I.T., (1986) 1 SCC 11: 1986 SCC (Tax) 143.The word 'includes' has different meanings in different contexts. Standard Dictionaries assign more than one meaning to the word 'include'. Webster's Dictionary defines the word 'include' as synonymous with 'comprise' or 'contain'. The Illustrated Oxford Dictionary defines the word 'include' as (i) comprise or contain in as a part of a whole; (ii) treat or regard as so included. The Collins Dictionary of Engl...
Uses
Uses (History). A use is the intention or purpose, express or implied, upon which property is to be held. The Common Law treated the actual possessor for all purposes as the owner of the property. It was not difficult to find him out, since the possession of his estate was conferred upon him by a formal and notorious ceremony, technically called livery of seisin, which was performed openly and in the presence of the people of the locality.It soon became evident that the simple rules of the Common Law were stumbling-blocks to the complicated wants of an enterprising people.Hence ingenuity was sharpened to hit upon a device which should set at nought the rigidity of existing law and formalities.A system was found by the monastic jurists upon a model furnished by the Civil Law, which, by a nice adaptation, evaded, without overturning, the Common Law. Two methods of transferring realty began to co-exist in this country-the ancient Common Law system, and the later invention, which is denomi...
Torture
Torture, an account of this atrocious expedient may be found in the Encyclop'dia Britannica (tit. 'Torture'). Reference may also be made to Jardine's Reading on the Use of Torture in the Criminal Law of England previously to the Commonwealth (1837), and an article by Mr. Wyatt Paine in the Law Times of January 28th, 1905, at p. 294, where attention is directed to the preamble of the Act for Pirates, 27 Hen. 8, c. 4 (repealed by the (English) Statute Law Revision Act, 1863).The infliction of intense pain to body or mind to punish; to extract a confession or information, or to obtain sadistic pleasure, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1498.Torture is strictly the infliction of gradually increasing pain for the purpose of extracting confession, or accusation, but it is also used in the secondary sense of those 'cruel and unusual punishments' which, by the Bill of Rights of 1688, 'ought not to be inflicted.' The peine forte et dure (see that title) is also a kind of torture in the prim...
liability
liability pl: -ties 1 : the quality or state of being liable 2 : something for which one is liable: as a : a financial obligation : debt [tax ] [the bonds are liabilities] compare asset contingent liability : an amount that may or may not be owed depending on the outcome of a contingency (as a cosigner's default on a loan) fixed liability : a liability (as a bond or mortgage) that does not mature for at least one year from the date incurred or from a given date b : accountability and responsibility to another enforceable by civil remedies or criminal sanctions [ for injuries caused by their product] absolute liability : strict liability in this entry alternative liability : joint liability imposed on multiple tortfeasors when there are simultaneous tortious acts (as defective manufacture of parts of a wheel by different manufacturers) and uncertainty as to which act was the proximate cause of an injury compare concert of action civil liability : liability imposed under c...
incidental
incidental 1 : subordinate or secondary in importance or position [ benefits] 2 : incident 3 : occurring by chance or in isolation [ use of a person's image] in·ci·den·tal·ly adv ...
local educational agency
local educational agency School or school district. Also called LEA. This term is used for deciding tuition charges for secondary school students in F-1 visa status. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
Higher National Diploma
A certificate awarded for completing a course of vocational education beyond secondary school preparing the student for a career in business or certain practical arts It is a term used in the United Kingdom...
magneto
A small electric generator with an armature rotating in a magnetic field having a secondary winding that generates a high voltage such as one used to generate a voltage sufficient to cause a spark to jump between the poles of a spark plug in an internal combustion engine...
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