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Lynch-law
Lynch-law, the procedure whereby an offender is tried and executed by a self-appointed body of citizens acting generally in defiance of the law, alleging as an excuse either the slowness of … Lynch-law, the procedure whereby an offender is tried and executed by a self-appointed body of citizens acting generally in defiance of the law, alleging as an excuse either
privilege
: an exemption from liability where an action is deemed to be justifiable (as in the case of self-defense) or because of the requirements of a position or office ;also : the affirmative defense that an action … agency materials containing opinions, recommendations, and other communications that are part of the decision-making process within the agency executive privilege : a privilege exempting the executive branch of government from disclosing communications if such disclosure would adversely
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Uses
the Common Law, as it would have been absurd to give possession by livery of seisin to one's self. This was found to be convenient, especially in the following example: It frequently happened that upon the death … of the fee. (8) A use, being but the creature of equity, could not have been taken in execution for the debts of the cestui que use; for there was no process at Common Law but against
Prerogative of mercy
be considered to have incurred any criminal respon-sibility, e.g., persons who had committed homicide by misadventure or in self-defence (Pollock and Maitland's Hist. Engl. Law, vol. ii., pp. 476 et seq.), but was even extended to jurors … Prerogative of Mercy was frequently invoked to alter the sentence, either to obviate the necessity for the literal execution of the sentence in cases of high treason, or to change the sentence of death by hanging for
Forfeiture
his title, which devolves upon others. Forfeiture resulted from the following circumstan-ces:--(1) Treason, misprision of treason, felony, murder, self-murder, pr'munire, and striking or threatening a judge. But the (English) Forfeiture Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. … & 24 Vict. c. 126), s. 1. This relief is obtainable at any time within six months after execution [(English) C.L.P. Act, 1852, ss. 211, 212.] See Barratt v. Richardson, (1930) 1 KB 686. Where the breach
Transaction
in character and not a mere unilateral action which is all that occurs when a coparcener throws his self-acquisitions into the hotchpotch of Joint Family, P.K. Subramania Iyer v. C.G.T., Kerala, AIR 1968 Ker 190. Transaction, the … of conducting business or other dealings, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1503. Means to carry through, accomplish, execute, do or to carry on. It cannot be read narrowly to mean as synonymous to the word 'contract'.
Education
Education generates in an individual a critical outlook on social and political realities and sharpens the ability to self-examination, self-monitoring and self-criticism, (India-Vision, 2020 Published by Planning Commission of India, it is stated at p. 250); See … problems in respect of which provisions were made for the education of special classes of persons, or by executive, as opposed to legislative methods, as, for example, by a system of grants in aid. This Act was
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