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Readiness and willingness of the tenant to pay

it does not enable Courts to make a special law for such hard cases which fall outside the statutory protection, Mistry Premjibhai Vithaldas v. Ganeshbhai Keshavji, AIR 1977 SC 1707 (1711): (1977) 3 SCC 11. [Bombay Rents,

Public Authorities, Protection of

Protection Act, 1893 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 61), which applies to common law as well as to statutory duties, to individuals as well as to public authorities, and to acts of omission as well as to

Proviso for redemption

Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 115, a receipt of the person entitled to give a receipt (see statutory form) for the moneys secured by the mortgage endorsed on or written at the foot if, or annexed

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Privy

participation in some Act, so as to be bound thereby, see the word in this sense in the statutory implied covenant in Part vi. Of the Second Sch. Of the Law of Property Act, 1925, and Woodhouse

Personal chattels

Personal chattels, goods, money, or moveables, and see the definitions in the Optional Statutory Forms of Wills prescribed under the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 179, by S.R. & O., 1925,

Order in Council

power to prescribe or alter the law by Order in Council, save when expressly authorized by statute. See STATUTORY RULES.

Jurisdictional limits

Jurisdictional limits, means the geographic bound-aries or the constitutional or statutory limits within which a court's authority may be exercised, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 857

Mala fide exercise of power

mala fide exercise of power does not necessarily imply any moral turpitude and may only mean that the statutory power is exercised for purposes other than those for which the power was intended by law to be

Hackney carriages

Geo. 5, c. 14); Road Traffic Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 50), and the various statutory rules and orders, and generally, see Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Hackney and Stage Carriage,'and Bonner and Farrant's Law of

Deputy steward

the Copyhold Act, 1894, s. 94, and the Law of Property Act, 1922, 'deputy steward' included in the statutory meaning of 'steward.' This deputy or under-steward may be appointed either in writing or by parol, although the

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