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Immovable property

things attached to the earth, or permanently fastened to anything which is attached to the earth, but not standing timber, growing crops nor grass. [Registration Act, 1908 (16 of 1908), s. 2 (6)] Trees are regarded as

Execution

v. Ram narain, (1984) 3 SCC 561: AIR 1984 SC 1383: (1984) 3 SCR 806. The word 'execution' stands derived from the Latin 'ex seque' meaning, to follow out follow to the end, or perform and equivalent

Employee

it makes an exclusion in the case of an apprentice engaged under the Apprentices Act or under the standing orders, Regional Provident Fund Commissioners v. Central Arecanut and Coca Marketing and Processing Co-operative Ltd., (2006) 2 SCC

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Trespasser

QB 143; and see SPRING GUNS. Per K. Ramaswamy, J.: A rank trespasser is one who does not stand in any contractual relationship with the owner of the premises. A trespasser is also one who lawfully enters

Stabit prasumptio donec probetur in contrarium

Stabit prasumptio donec probetur in contrarium (Co. Rep. 71b), a presumption will stand good until the contrary is proved.

Tax admitted

an assessee has to do is not to admit his liability in the memorandum of appeal, whatever his stand might have been before the assessing authority. Ordinarily no interpretation should be placed on a provision which would

Tail

These modes of assurance of a fee-simple were feoffment (at the Common Law), bargain and sale, covenant to stand seised, a release (under the Statute of Uses), or grant, which is the best mode of assurance, and

Subrogation

borrowed without authority but applied in payment of existing debts; in such cases the quasi-lender is entitled to stand in the shoes of the creditors thus paid. See Re Wrexham, etc., Railway (1899) 1 Ch 440; see

Statutory trusts

of Property Act, 1925, land held upon 'statutory trusts' shall be held upon trust for sale and to stand possessed of the net proceeds of sale after payment of costs and net rents and profits until sale

Stare decisis

p. 1414. Stare decisis is a well-known doctrine in legal jurisprudence. The doctrine of stare decisis, meaning to stand by decided cases, rests upon the principle that law by which men are governed should be fixed, definite

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