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Personal action

Personal action, one brought for the specific recovery of goods and chattels, or for damages or other redress for breach of contract, or other injuries,

Wills

of Blewitt, (1880) 5 PD 116. By s. 175 of the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, contingent, specific or residuary devises of real or personal property carry the income, and see the (English) Trustee Act, 1925,

Soon before

before, the expression 'soon before' is a relative term which requires to be construed in the context of specific circumstances of each case and no hard-and-fast rule of any universal application can be laid down by fixing

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Security

only evidence of a debt. The word is not confined to a document which gives a charge on specific pro-perty but includes personal securities for money, Chetumal v. Noorbhoy, AIR 1928 Sind 89: 107 IC 213. Security,

Real Burden

Real Burden. Where a right to lands is expressly granted under the burden of a specific sum, or a burden of a specific sum is constituted on the lands themselves, and not merely personally,

Rate applicable to the total income of the company

applicable to the total income of the company' meant the rate actually applied. The clause referred to the specific or definite rate which was determined to be applicable to the taxable income of the company for that

Sale of Goods Act, 1893

the party to be charged or his agent in that behalf'; that a contract for the sale of specific goods which have perished without the knowledge of the seller is void; and full provision is made for

Perished goods

Perished goods. 'Where there is a contract for the sale of specific goods and the goods without the knowledge of the seller have perished at the time when the contract

Mutuality

Ed., vol. 7, p. 124. As to the want of mutuality as a defence to an action for specific performance, see Fry on Specific Performance.

Lawful, Legal

is not illegal against law or even permissible. Lawful is wider in connotation than legal. Although provision in Specific Relief Act empowering a person or tenant to recover possession if he has been evicted forcibly by the

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