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Reserve Forces
the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 9), became the 'Territorial Army,' and the special reserve became 'militia,' for the purposes of the Act of 1907 and otherwise. The ss. of the Act … and a 'Militia Reserve.' The 'Army Reserve' consists of time-expired regular soldiers who are on its strength by reason of the terms of their enlistment or by re-engagement. As to the present character of the Militia, see
Fraud
legal principles; as marriage-brokerage bonds, and contracts in restraint of trade. Other transactions again, growing out of a special confidential or fiduciary relation between the parties, are watched with special jealousy, because they afford the means of … equity for the land or rent runs from the time at which such fraud was r might with reasonable diligence have been first known or discovered; see (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm.
Title
LAND CHARGES. There are at least three species of doubtful titles: (1) where the title is doubtful by reason of some uncertainty in the law itself; (2) where the doubt is as to the application of some … of 1926 (see K. & E., Vol. I., Part I. p. 235), and free from all incumbrances not specially provided for in the contract; see ABSTRACT and CONDITIONS OF SALE, and consult Dart or Williams on Vendors
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Housing of the working classes
under penalty of a fine not exceeding forty shillings. It may also be pointed out that for the special purposes of ss. 38 and 137 of the Act of 1936, the 11th Schedule defines a working man's … condition is implied that at the commencement of the holding the house (or part) is in all respects reasonably fit for human habitation. As to the liability of the landlord where the tenant undertakes the repairs (fair
Debt
(English) Administration of Estates Act, 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 46) (popularly known as 'Hinde Palmer's Act'), special contract debts, as by bonds, covenants, and other instruments under seal, took priority over debts by simple contract; … Court is as follows:- 1. Funeral expenses, which in the case of an insolvent estate must be strictly reasonable and necessary only, the executor or administrator being personally liable for any excessive expenditure. What is a strictly
Person of unsound mind
mind, a term by which in a more enlightened age persons afflicted with a mental illness affecting their reason are to be known, as distinguished from Idiots, Imbeciles, Feeble-minded Persons and Moral Defectives under the Mental Deficiency … (1) An order of judicial authority (county Court judge, stipendiary or police magistrate, or justice of the peace specially appointed) for the detention as persons of unsound mind of any such person not so found by inquisition.
Coroner
(English) Petroleum Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 25). A coroner is required to give a special certificate to permit cremation of a body upon which he has held an inquest, (English) Cremation Act,1902 (2 … coroner is informed that the dead body of a person is lying within his jurisdiction, and there is reasonable cause to suspect that such person has died either a violent or an unnatural death, or has died
Damage
contingent damages, continuing damages, double damages, excessive damages, exemplary damages, general damages, irreparable damages, pecuniary damages, prospective damages, special damages, speculative damages, substantial damages, unliquidated damages. But the essentials are (a) detriment to one by the wrong-doing … or acts of commission or omission on the part of the carrier or his agents or servants by reason of the negligent operation and management of the vessel, as, for example, when cargo is damaged by exposure
Alien
and gives him the status of such a subject (s. 3). S. 4 deals with the granting of special certificates in cases of doubt, s. 5 with the case of persons under disability, s. 6 with the … a person to whom a certificate of naturalization had been granted or had become a British subject by reason of any annexation of territory, or was at the time of that person's birth in the service of
Wages
a workman towards any pension or provident fund or a sum paid to a workman to cover any special expenses entailed on him by the nature of his employment. [Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923 (8 of 1923), s. … LJ 917. Includes any bonus or other additional remunera-tion etc., and any sum 'payable to such person by reason of the termination of his employment, A.R. Sarin v. B.C. Patil, AIR 1951 Bom 423. Means remuneration payable
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