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preference system The nine categories since fiscal year 1992 among which the family-sponsored and employment-based immigrant preference visas are distributed. The family-sponsored preferences are: 1) unmarried sons and daughters of U.S. citizens; 2) spouses, children, and unmarried sons and daughters of permanent resident aliens; 3) married sons and daughters of U.S. citizens; 4) brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens. The employment-based preferences are: 1) priority workers (persons of extraordinary ability, outstanding professors and researchers, and certain multinational executives and managers); 2) professionals with advanced degrees or aliens with exceptional ability; 3) skilled workers, professionals (without advanced degrees), and needed unskilled workers; 4) special immigrants; and 5) employment creation immigrants (investors). Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...
Family unit
Family unit, under the definition of 'family unit' in s. 3(f) of the Andhra Pradesh Land Reforms (Ceiling on Agricultural Holdings) Act, 1973 the divided minor son would clearly be included in the 'family unit' and by reason of S. 4, his land, whether self-acquired or obtained on partition, would be liable to be clubbed with the lands held by the other members of the 'family unit'. The land obtained by the divided minor son on partition would be liable to be aggregated with the lands of other members of the family unit not because the partition is invalid but because the land held by him, howsoever acquired, is liable to be clubbed with the lands of other members for the purpose of applying the ceiling area to the 'family unit', Thumati Venkaiah v. State of Andhra Pradesh, AIR 1980 SC 1568: (1980) 4 SCC 295: (1980) 3 SCR 1143.No distinction has been made in the definition of family unit between a divided minor son and an undivided minor son. Both stand on the same footing and a divided...
Mulier puisne
Mulier puisne. When a man has a bastard son, and afterwards marries the mother, and by her has also a legitimate son, the elder son is bastard eigne and the younger son is mulier puisne. See 2 Bl. Com. 248....
trust
trust 1 a : a fiduciary relationship in which one party holds legal title to another's property for the benefit of a party who holds equitable title to the property b : an entity resulting from the establishment of such a relationship see also beneficiary, cestui que trust, corpus declaration of trust at declaration, principal, settlor NOTE: Trusts developed out of the old English use. The traditional requirements of a trust are a named beneficiary and trustee (who may be the settlor), an identified res, or property, to be transferred to the trustee and constitute the principal of the trust, and delivery of the res to the trustee with the intent to create a trust. Not all relationships labeled as trusts have all of these characteristics, however. Trusts are often created for their advantageous tax treatment. accumulation trust : a trust in which principal and income are allowed to accumulate rather than being paid out NOTE: Accumulation trusts are disfavored and often restricted...
Bastard Eigne
Bastard Eigne, an elder son born before marriage; thus if a man had a natural son, and afterwards married the mother and by her had a legitimate son, the latter was mulier puisne, and the elder son bastard eigne, Watk. Descent. C. v. See Legitimacy Act, 1926 (c. 60) and LEGITIMATION....
Fitz
Fitz [Nor., fr. fils, Fr.], a son. It is used in law and genealogy; as Fitzherbert, the son of Herbert; Fitzjames, the son of James; Fitzroy, the son of the king. It was originally applied to illegitimate children....
Coparceners or parceners
Coparceners or parceners. The name given to persons who until 1926 inherited an inheritable estate by virtue of descents from the ancestor which conferred on them all an equal title to it. It arose by act of law only, i.e., by descent, which, in relation to this subject was of two kinds:-(1) Descent by the common law, which took place where an ancestor died intestate, leaving two or more females as his co-heiresses; these, according to the canon of real property inheritance, all took together as coparceners or parceners, the law of primogeniture not obtaining among women in equal relationship to their ancestor: they were, however, deemed to be one heir; and (2) descent by particular custom, as in the case of gavelkind lands, which descended to all the males in equal degree, as the sons, brothers, or uncles of the deceased intestate ancestor; in default of sons, they descended to all the daughters equally.Coparceners had a unity though not an entirety, or necessarily an equality, of int...
Strict settlement
Strict settlement, a settlement of land, the object of which was, usually, to keep the estates as far as possible in the male line, the eldest son taking in fee or in tail with successive limitations in tail to the exclusion of the younger children, who are pro-vided for by means of portions charged on the property. The limitations vary according to the circumstances of each particular case, but the following may be taken as usual limitations in the case of an ordinary settlement on marriage before 1926: To the use of the husband for life, remainder, subject to a jointure rent-charge to the wife and a term for raising portions for younger children, to the first and other sons in tail-male, remainder to the first and other sons in tail general, remainder to the daughters as tenants in common in tail with cross remainders between them, remainder to the husband in fee. Where the estate also comprised copyholds and leaseholds, these were conveyed to trustees upon trusts to correspond with ...
Reason to believe
Reason to believe, does not mean a purely subjective satisfaction. The belief must be held in good faith; it cannot be merely a pretence, S. Narayanappa v. CIT, Bangalore, AIR 1967 SC 523: (1967) 65 ITR 219: 1967 1 SCJ 161.Reason to believe, does not mean a purely subjective satisfaction. The believe must be held in good faith. It cannot be merely a pretence, S. Narayanappa v. C.I.T., Bangalore, 1967 ITR 219: AIR 1967 SC 523.Reason to believe, is not synonymous with subjective satisfaction of the officer. The belief must be held in good faith; it cannot merely be a pretence, Partap Singh v. Director of Enforcement, AIR 1985 SC 989: (1985) 3 SCC 72.Means that reasons should exist but the court will not go into the adequacy of such reason, Manchand & Co. v. CIT, West Bengal, AIR 1969 Cal 431.Means coming to the conclusion on the basis of the information that a thing, condition, statement or fact exists. It only means facts which prima facie will convince any reasonable person under the c...
Putra pouthra santhathies
Putra pouthra santhathies, cannot be construed as confined to sons, grandsons and their descendants born out of the body excluding the adopted son or his descendants, G. Appaswami Chettiar v. R. Sarangapani Chettiar, AIR 1978 SC 1051: (1978) 3 SCC 55.The term 'putra pouthra santhathies' cannot be construed as confined to sons, grandsons and their descendants born out of the body excluding the adopted son or his descendants, G. Appaswami Chettiar v. R. Sarangpani Chettiar, AIR 1978 SC 1051 (1061): (1978) 3 SCC 55....
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