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bequest
bequest : an act of bequeathing ;also : something bequeathed : legacy de·mon·stra·tive bequest [di-mÄ n-strə-tiv-] : a bequest of a particular amount of money or property to be distributed first from one source in the estate and then from other sources to the extent that the first is insufficient general bequest : a bequest that is to be distributed from the general assets of the estate and that is not a particular thing spe·ci·fic bequest [spə-si-fik-] : a bequest of a particular item or part of an estate or that is payable only from a specified source in the estate and not from the general assets ...
demonstrative bequest
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Bequest
The act of bequeathing or leaving by will as a bequest of property by A to B...
Bequest
Bequest, a gift of personal property by will; a legacy....
Specific performance
Specific performance. Equity, in obedience to the cardinal rule of natural justice that a person should perform his agreement enforces, pursuant to a regulated and judicial discretion, the actual accomplishment of a thing stipulated for, on the ground that what is lawfully agreed to be done ought to be done, and that damages at law for breach of the contract are not a sufficient com-pensation. The Common Law has not recognized this principle; it has only given damages to a suffering party for the non-performance of an executory agreement. The (English) C.L.P. Act, 1854, however, imparted to the Common Law writ of mandamus a little more efficacy by provisions since superseded by s. 24 of the Judicature Act, 1873, now by Judicature Act, 1925, s. 36, and the (English) Mercantile Law Amendment Act, 1856, introduced a procedure for enforcing the specific delivery of goods sold, specially superseded by s. 52 of the (English) Sale of Goods Act, 1893.An award of damages may be combined with a ...
Specific movable property
Specific movable property, the words specific movable property' occurring in art. 49 of the Limitation Act can mean only such specific items of movable property in respect of which the plaintiff is entitled to claim immediate possession in specific from the defendant who has either wrongfully taken or is wrongfully withholding them from him, Raghunath Das v. Gokal Chand, AIR 1958 SC 827 (830): (1959) SCR 811....
Specific
Specific, what is precise, exact, definite and explicit, is 'specific'. Sometimes, what is specific may also be special but yet they are distinct is semantics, Maru Ram v. Union of India, AIR 1980 SC 2147: (1981) 1 SCC 107: (1981) 1 SCR 1196.1. Of relating to, or designating a particular or defined thing; explicit 2. Of or relating to particular named thing 3. Conformable to special require-ment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1406...
Specific provision to the contrary
Specific provision to the contrary, in the absence of any specific provisions to the contrary, the purpose of the Haryana legislature as well as of the Parliament in enacting the Haryana Children Act and the central Children Act (Act 60 of 1960) respectively was to give separate treatment to delinquent children in trial, conviction and punishment for offences including offences punishable with death or imprisonment for life. S. 27 is not 'a specific provision to the contrary', within the meaning of s. 5 of the Act; the intention of the Parliament was not to exclude the trial of delinquent children for offences punishable with death or imprisonment for life, inasmuch as s. 27 does not contain any expression to the effect 'notwithstanding anything contained in any Children Act passed by any State legislature'. Parliament certainly was not unaware of the existence of the Haryana Children Act coming into force a month earlier or the central Children Act coming into force nearly fourteen ye...
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