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certain date, and transfers the mortgaged property absolutely to the mortgagee, but subject to a proviso that he will retransfer in to the mortgagor upon payment of the mortgage-money as agreed, the transaction is called an English

Magna Carta

Right (3 Car. (1628)), the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2 (1679)), and the Bill of Rights (1 Will. SM. (1689)). Also spelled Magna charta, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 963. This Great Charter is based … at once the security of peace and the sinews of war). The 9th chapter perpetuates our right of self-government, the source and bulwork of our constitutional freedom. It enacts that:-'The City of London shall have all the

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VerbarJujutsu

The Japanese art of self defense without weapons now widely used as a system of physical training It depends for its efficiency largely … strength weight and movements to disable or injure him and by applying pressure so that his opposing movement will throw him out of balance dislocate or break a joint etc It opposes knowledge and skill to brute

privilege

a need to protect military, diplomatic, or national security secrets, the need for evidence in a criminal trial will outweigh a general assertion of executive privilege. informant's privilege : the privilege of the government to withhold the … : 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

Advowson

again become appendant. But should an advowson be disappended conditionally, as in the case of a mortgage, it will reunite when the loan is repaid. So, if the advowson be excepted in a lease of the corporeal … the demesnes of such manor, which subsist perpetually. A presentative advowson in gross is a right of patronage self-subsistent, belonging to the patron as an individual, and not in any wise appendant to a corporeal inheritance. While

Forfeiture

prohibited under pain of forfeiture to the lord. The Crown may, however (see MORTMAIN), grant a licence which will avoid this forfeiture. By the (English) Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 42), … 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.

Grounds

the Constitution and in sub-s. (3) of s. 3 of COFEPOSA, therefore, has to receive an interpretation which will keep it meaningfully in tune with contemporary notions. While the expression 'grounds' for that matter includes not only … inferences but mean factual inferences plus factual material which led to such factual inferences. The 'grounds' must be self-sufficient and self-explanatory, Smt. Shalini Soni v. Union of India, AIR 1981 SC 431: (1980) 4 SCC 544: (1971)

National insurance

takes a more permanent and enduring form, the only guide to the law existing at any given time will be the statutes then in force. It may, however, be added that the minimum age for entry into … these benefits are subject to various qualifications and conditions. The administration of the scheme is carried out through self-governing societies known as 'Approved Societies,' who administer the above benefits, except (1), which are administered by statutory bodies

Sovereignty

the sovereign power in the State. In an independent political community that sovereign is determinate and absolute. Its will is illimitable because, if it could not be constrained to act, it would cease to be supreme, since … is governed; supreme political authority paramount control of the constitution and frame of government and its administration; the self-sufficient source of political power from which all specific political powers are derived; the inter-national independence of a State

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