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Instrumentalness

Usefulness or agency as means to an end instrumentality

Constituted under an instrument of partnership

Constituted under an instrument of partnership, the words 'constituted under an instrument of partnership' include not only firms which have been created by an Instrument of Partnership but also those which may have been created by...

Weighing or measuring instrument

Weighing or measuring instrument, means any object, instrument, apparatus or device, or any combination thereof, which is, or is intended to be, used, exclusively or additionally, for the purpose of making any weighment or measurement, and...

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Deed and other instruments

Deed and other instruments, a document by an intermediary acknowledging the overlordship of another would, fall within the definition. An 'intermediary' neither 'includes' a zamindar nor 'means' a zamindar, but means a zamindar within the meaning...

Sanad, deed and other instrument

Sanad, deed and other instrument, the words 'deed' and 'other instrument' must be read 'ejusdem generis' with 'sanad' and so must be confined to a document of title like a sanad in which one party crates...

Heirs and children used in same instrument

Heirs and children used in same instrument, means where said words are used in same instrument in speaking of the same persons, the word heirs to be construed to mean 'children'. Such usage being treated as...

Makes any order admitting any instrument in evidence

Makes any order admitting any instrument in evidence, the order is an order about the sufficiency or insufficiency of the stamp with reference to a document which has been admitted in evidence. No formal or specific...

renegotiate

renegotiate : to negotiate again (as for more money or to adjust interest rates or repayments) ;specif : to determine under statutory procedure the existence and amount of excess profits on (a government contract) in order...

Conveyance

Conveyance, an instrument which transfers property from one person to another, defined for the purposes of the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 205, as including 'mortgage charge, lease, assent, vesting declaration, vesting instrument, disclaimer, release...

horse trade

to negotiate with much give and take

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