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Patria potestas

Patria potestas, paternal power, Civ. Law. For the extent of this great power, see Sand. Just.; Maine's Ancient Law. The modes in which the patria potestas was ended were: (1) The death of the father; (2)...

Mancipatio

Mancipatio. Every father, in the Roman law, had such an authority over his son, that before the son could be released from his subjection and made free he must be twice sold and bought, his natural...

Lineal warranty

Lineal warranty, where the heir derived, or might by possibility have derived, his title to the land warranted, either from or through the ancestor who made the warranty; as where a father or an elder son...

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Contingency with a double aspect

Contingency with a double aspect, is a kind of executory interest which maybe termed an alternative interest. This is an 'interest that is only to vest in case the next preceding interest should never vest in...

Honourable

Honourable, a title of courtesy given to the children of earls (except the eldest son in cases where the father has a second title), viscounts and barons; Maids of Honour to the Queen; Justices of the...

Lineal descendant

Lineal descendant, Lineal descendant would mean the offspring of lawful marriage and not offspring of union which is not that of husband and wife. The plain meaning of lineal descendant is one who is in the...

Treason

Treason [fr. trahir, Fr., to betray; proditio, Lat.], or leze-majesty, an offence against the duty of allegiance, and the highest known crime, for it aims at the very destruction of the commonwealth itself. Five species of...

Money Bill

are currently accepted as a medium of exchange, Shorter Oxford English Dictionary; see also C.I.T. v. Kasturi & Sons Ltd., (1999) 3 SCC 346. Money, the Black's Law Dictionary 5th Edn., defines the word 'money' thus: 'In

Finding mains holding

correct for an appellate Court to say that it affirms a finding of fact, Uttam Singh Duggal & Sons. v. Union of India, AIR 2002 Del 471.

Coparcenary

property can be members of the coparcenary or coparceners. A male member of the joint family and his sons, grandsons and great grandsons constitute a coparcenary, State of Maharashtra v. Narayan Rao Sham Rao Deshmukh, (1985) 2

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