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Civil Law

millions of lines, were abridged into a hundred and fifty thousand; the work was completed in the incredibly short space of three years, and published on the 16th December, A.D. 533, a month after the appearance of … nine associates in A.D. 528, complied with great rapidity, and published in the following year, thus preceding in date the Institutes and the Digest. It was complied from the Gregorian, Hermogenian and Theodosian Codes and from other

Law

its sanction are imposed by, or by authority of a sovereign, the law becomes 'positive' (see Austin's Jurisprudence). Short of positive law the principle may be called a moral or social law. Generally speaking, jurisprudence is concerned … law in the whole or in any part of the State of Bombay; The memorandum of Central Government, dated 11th May, 1957 was an approval in terms of the proviso to sub-s. (7) of s. 115 of

Intoxicating liquor

repealed (see Sched. VII.) the whole or part of thirteen earlier Acts. The effect of this statute is shortly as follows:- 1. Grant of Licence.--Defining 'intoxicating liquor' as meaning 'spirits, wine, beer, porter, cider, perry, and sweets, … called 'old' beer-house licences, (2) 25th June, 1902, or (3) 15th August, 1904. Licences first granted since that date can never be the subject of renewal. Their continuance will be dealt with in the same way as

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Alien

loss of British Nationality, the status of aliens, and procedure and evidence. The effect of the Act is shortly as follows: By s. 1 the following persons are deemed natural-born British subjects:-- (a) Any person born within … specified limits been fined or imprisoned in the Empire, or who was not of good character at the date of the certificate. S. 8 empowers the Governments of British possessions to grant certificates of Imperial naturalization, and

Mortgage

legislative provision, or unreasonable delay. see CLOG ON EQUITYOF REDEMPTION. A provision rendering a mortgage irredeemable for a short term, such as five or seven years, is, however allowed, Biggs v. Hoddinott, (1898) 2 Ch 311, and … with notice of a prior title. Mortgages without the deeds obtain priority not necessarily by order of the date of creation but according to date of registration [s. 97, (English) Law of Property Act, 1925]. First and

bill

place of the security itself that entitles the purchaser to receive payment upon presentation Treasury bill : a short-term obligation sold by the government at a discount that bears no interest but is payable at its face … pay a named third party or anyone bearing it a specific amount of money on a named future date or on demand ;also : draft due bill : a bill given by a bank to the purchaser

Contingent remainder

Temple (see a good account of him in the Dictionary of National Biography), first published as a comparatively short essay in 1772, expanded into two volumes by the author shortly before his death in 1794, and edited … that Act. The only rule now is that the remainder must vest within lives in being at the date of settlement or at the death of the testator and twenty-one years thereafter plus a period of gestation,

Carry over

from him, as consideration for postponing the completion of the contract. This payment is called a 'backwardation,' or shortly a 'back.' An income-tax deduction (esp. for a net operating loss) that cannot be taken entirely in a … the completion of a contract, either for the purchase or sale of stocks or shares, to a later date than that originally fixed. When this happens the buyer usually pays the seller interest on the capital involved,

Education

to the society. And even thought an occupation, it cannot be equated to a trade or business. In short, education is national wealth essential for the nations' progress and prosperity, P.A. Inamdar v. State of Maharashtra, AIR … starting point in the history of the provision by legislation of a general system of education. Before this date education had been dealt with either as a series of individual problems in respect of which provisions were

Act of Parliament

60 Vict. C. 14) (the latter repealing, and, with additions, re-enacting the former), having supplied more than 2,000 short titles. All the Acts of a session together make properly but one statute, and therefore, when two sessions … to by the President and in the absence of an express provision to the contrary, operative from the date of notification in the Gazette, Handbook for Members of Rajya Sabha, April, 2002. Means an action; a thing

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