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Statutory exposition. When the language of a statute is ambiguous, and any subsequent enactment involves a particular interpretation o the former Act, it is said to contain a statutory exposition of the former Act.1. The act or process of, interpreting a statute 2. Collectively, the principles developed by courts for interpreting statutes, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1424....
Parliamentary exposition
Parliamentary exposition, means the legislature sets out, in a later Act or Statute, the exposition of an earlier Act or, it does so by implication by giving a definite meaning to the same expression which was unexplained in earlier Act, Buttersby v. Kirk, (1836) Bing NC 584; Odgers Constriction of Deeds and Statutes, 1967, p. 345....
Statutory tenant
Statutory tenant, a person remaining in occupation of premises let to him after the determination of or expiry of the period of the tenancy is commonly, though in law not accurately, called a statutory tenant. Statutory tenant being a person who enjoys the status of irremovability, would enjoy the protection of the statute until he is evicted from the premises under the enabling provisions of the statute. A statutory tenancy would, therefore, come to an end on either the surrender of premises by such a tenant or if a decree of eviction, Biswabani Pvt. Ltd. v. Santosh Kumar Dutta, AIR 1980 SC 226: (1980) 1 SCR 650: (1980) 1 SCC 185.Statutory tenant, a tenant continuing in possession of a rented land or building after its termination of tenancy is 'statutory tenant', AIR 1989 P&H 9(10). [Haryana Urban Control of Rent and Eviction) Act, 1973, s. 4(2)(b)]Statutory tenant, can be described more conveniently as a tenant whose contractual tenancy has been terminated, Ratanlal v. Raniram, 1986...
Statutory Declarations Act, 1835
Statutory Declarations Act, 1835 (English) (5 & 6 Wm. 4, c. 62), which substitutes declarations for oaths in a large number of cases.The expression 'statutory declaration' in a statute means declaration under the above Act, Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 21.As to the punishment if a person 'knowingly and wilfully makes a statement false in a material particular' in a statutory declaration see (English) Perjury Act, 1911, s. 5....
Statutory Rules and Orders
Statutory Rules and Orders. Very numerous Acts of Parliament, especially those passed in recent years, empower the Sovereign in Council, some Govern-ment Department, or Courts of Justice, to make rules, having the same effect as the statute under which they are made, to regulate details left unprovided for by such statute. Thus, there are the Bankruptcy Rules regulating the practice under the Bankruptcy Acts; the Rules of the Supreme Court, regulating the practice of the High Court and the Court of Appeal; Orders of the Ministries of Health, Labour, etc., and Orders of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, under the (English) Diseases of Animals Act, 1894, and other Acts; and hundreds of other rules, orders, and regulations, in some cases requiring to be laid before Parliament, and in other cases not, and in some cases required to be published in the London, Edinburgh, or Dublin Gazette, and in others not.The (English) Rules Publication Act 1893 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 66), directs that...
Statutory tenancy
Statutory tenancy, 'statutory tenancy' is a con-venient expression for referring to a tenant whose tenancy has been terminated and who would be liable to be evicted but for the protecting statute, Damadilal v. Parashram, AIR 1976 SC 2229: (1976) 4 SCC 855: (1976) Supp SCR 645. [M.P. Accomoda-tion Control Act, 1961, s. 2(1) and 14]Statutory tenancy, is a mere status of irremovability. It commences after the contractual tenancy has come to an end in any manner provided by law, Nagar Palika Nigam, Gwalior v. Rajeshwar Dayal, 1996 MPLJ 97....
Statutory trusts
Statutory trusts. for the purposes of the (English) Law 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 subject to rates, taxes, and cost of insurance, repairs, and other outgoings, upon trust for the persons entitled under the settlement, including incumbrancers of former undivided shares, or not secured by a legal mortgage, and where an undivided share was subject to a settlement and the settlement remains subsisting in respect of other property and the trustees of the settlement are not the same persons as the trustees for sale the settled portion of the proceeds of sale is to be handed over to the settlement trustees as capital money under the (English) Settled Land Act, 1925 (s. 35 of the Law of Property Act, 1925). By s. 25, (English) L.P. Act, 1925, the trustees have power to postpone the sale unless a contrary direction appear...
statutory employee
statutory employee : one (as a contractor or person working under a contractor) who does work for a statutory employer from whom he or she is entitled to the exclusive remedy of workers' compensation benefits ...
statutory foreclosure
statutory foreclosure : a foreclosure in which a mortgagee or trustee executes a power of sale given in a mortgage or deed of trust and does so in accordance with statutory provisions compare strict foreclosure ...
statutory omnibus clause
statutory omnibus clause : a statutory provision requiring that coverage of an automobile insurance policy be extended to a person using the vehicle with the express or implied permission of the insured compare omnibus clause ...
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