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Home Dictionary Name: statutory law Page: 2 Page 2 of about 90 results (0.003 seconds)Laws in force
Laws in force, Article 313 refers to laws in force which means statutory laws, Union of India v. Majji Jangammayya AIR 1977 SC 757 (767): (1977) 2 SCR 28: (1977) 1 SCC 606. [Constition of India, Art. 313]--the definition of the phrase 'laws in force' is an inclusive definition and is intended to include laws passed or made by a Legislature or other competent authority before the commencement of the Constitution irrespective of the fact that the law or any part thereof was not in operation in particular areas or at all, Sant Ram v. Labh Singh, (1964) 7 SCR 756: AIR 1965 SC 314 (316)....
federal common law
federal common law : case law developed in the federal courts see also Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins in the Important Cases section NOTE: Federal common law is applied primarily in admiralty and maritime cases, disputes between states, matters of international relations, and in cases regarding the proprietary interests of the U.S. Federal common law is used when federal statutory law does not completely address an issue or problem. ...
implied in law
implied in law : created and imposed by law (as statutory or case law) [it contradicted an implied in law term of the writing "J. D. Calamari and J. M. Perillo"] ...
Judge made
Created by judges or judicial decision applied esp to law applied or established by the judicial interpretation of statutes so as extend or restrict their scope as to meet new cases to provide new or better remedies etc and often used opprobriously of acts of judicial interpretation considered as doing this Judge made law is contrasted with statutory law and civil law...
common-law copyright
common-law copyright : a copyright in common law protecting unpublished works NOTE: Works created after January 1, 1978, are protected by statutory rather than common-law copyright while unpublished. ...
statute
statute [Latin statutum law, regulation, from neuter of statutus, past participle of statuere to set up, station, from status position, state] 1 : a law enacted by the legislative branch of a government see also code, statutory law 2 : an act of a corporation or its founder intended as a permanent rule 3 : an international instrument setting up an agency and regulating its scope or authority [the of the International Court of Justice] ...
statute law
statute law : statutory law ...
ownership
ownership : the state, relation, or fact of being an owner ;also : the rights or interests of an owner [reduced their by one third] absolute ownership : ownership esp. by a single person that is free of any encumbrances or limitations other than statutory law compare fee simple absolute at fee simple os·ten·si·ble ownership [Ä -sten-sə-bəl] : ownership that is apparent rather than actual and that sometimes is recognized in cases of purchase of the property by an innocent third party [a dispute arising from the dealer's ostensible ownership and sale of the collateral] NOTE: A purchaser from a person with ostensible ownership of property may be able to defeat the claim to the property of the actual owner who created the ostensible ownership. ownership in in·di·vi·sion in the civil law of Louisiana : ownership by two or more persons each having undivided shares in the property as a whole compare community property at property NOTE: Own...
Form
Form. The structure of a document or its contents apart from the substance. See Conveyancing Forms and Precedents; Chitty's Forms; Bullen and Leake's Prec. Of Pleading.The outer shape or structure of something, an dis-tinguished from its substance or matter. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 662.Statutory Forms (see, e.g., the forms of mortgage in the Third Schedule to the Law of Property Act, 1925), are usually permissive, but a bill of sale (see that title) is void unless made 'in accordance with' the form in the schedule to the Bills of Sale Act, 1882; see Thomas v. Kelly, (1888) 13 Ap. Cas. 506.Intended to connote that the body of the company or its shape did not come up in consequence of transfer of building, machinery or plant used previously for business purpose, Bajaj Temp Ltd. v. I.T. Commr. Bombay, AIR 1992 SC 1622....
Planning
Planning, as that term is used in connection with community development is a generic term, rather than a word of art, and has no fixed meaning. Broadly speaking, however, the term connotes the systematic development of a community or an area with particular reference to the location, character, and extent of streets, squares, and parks, and to kindred mapping and charting, American Jurisprudence, 2nd (Vol. 82, at p. 388).Planning, connotes a systematic development contrived to promote the common interest in matters, embraced within the police power, with particular reference to the localities, character, and extent of streets, squares, parks, and to kindred mapping and charting, Manaklal Chottebai v. M.G. Makwana, (1968) 1 SCJ 379.Laws dealing with development planning are indis-pensable to sanitation and healthy urbanization. Development planning comprehensively takes care of statutory, manual, administrative and land-use laws hand in hand with architectural creativity. In the words o...
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