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Place of residence

of residence than one at a given time. A place occupied by a person with the intention of setting up a fixed, though not permanent, abode, would be deemed to be a place of residence. Sojourn for a … area forming part of Pakistan, provided that such person was displaced from the latter residence because of the setting up of the Dominions or on account of civil disturbances or fear of such disturbances, Sukh Lal v. State

fund

fund 1 : a sum of money or other resources whose principal or interest is set aside for a specific objective cli·ent security fund : a fund established by each state to compensate clients for losses...

Establish

Establish, The meaning of the word 'establish' as given in the New Collins Concise Dictionary, 1983 edn., is: 'I. to make secure or permanent in a certain place, condition, job etc. 2. to create or set...

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Winding-up

Winding-up, the process by which an insolvent estate is distributed, as far as it will go, amongst the persons having claims upon it. The term is most frequently applied to the winding-up of joint-stock companies. The...

Set up and established

word 'established', but operations for establishment cannot be equated with the establishment of the unit itself or its setting up, Commissioner of Wealth Tax v. Rama Raju Surgical Cotton Mills Ltd., AIR 1967 SC 509 (511): (1967) 1

No cause for such refusal

No cause for such refusal, the expression 'no cause for such refusal' within the meaning of clause (4) must mean no good cause for refusal. Therefore when an application is filed by a shareholder for an...

Set-off

Set-off, any counter-balance or cross-claim. A defendant's counter demand against the plaintiff, arising out of transaction independent of plaintiff's claim, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1376. The subject of a set-off under the former practice...

Counter-claim

Counter-claim, the word 'counter-claim' in s. 19(8) to (11) which is equated to a cross-suit, includes a claim if it is made in an independent suit filed earlier, Union of India, v. Abhijit Tea Co. (P.)...

statute

an act of a corporation or its founder intended as a permanent rule 3 : an international instrument setting up an agency and regulating its scope or authority [the of the International Court of Justice]

Adverse possession

term when dispossession of the lessee is not necessarily inconsistent with the reversioner's rights, and secondly, the person setting up dispossession may have been holding under the rightful owner's title, e.g., trustees, guardians, bailiffs or agents. Such persons

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