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Stranger, means a person, not a party to an act, contract or title, A Dictionary of Law, Willium C. Anderson, 1889.Means an outsider or foreigner, Webster American Dictionary, p. 144.The word 'stranger', had to be understood not in terms of blood or marriage relationship with the family but as a person unconnected with it, unknown in character and antecedents to the executants of the Deed. The word 'stranger' in the text has, in our view, to be interpreted as that person who has no connection whatsoever with the families of the original executants i.e., the father and two sons, Vijaylakshmi v. B. Himantharaya Chetty, AIR 1996 SC 2146 (2149): (1996) 9 SCC 376.1. One who is not party to a given transaction 2. One not standing toward another in some relation in plied in context, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1433.Strangers, in the Parliament of India, the strangers are admitted during the sittings of the House to those portions of the House which are not exclusively reserved for me...
Stranger in blood
Stranger in blood, a person in no degree of relation-ship to another. See schedule to the Stamp Act, 1815 (Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Death Duties'), by which 10 per cent. duty is payable on a legacy 'to or for the benefit of any stranger in blood to the deceased' testator. An illegitimate child is treated by the Inland Revenue authorities as a 'stranger in blood' within the Act; but see May and August numbers of the Law Magazine and Review of 1905. Aliter as to legitimated children, see Legitimacy Act, 1926, s. 7.One not related by blood, such as relative by affinity, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1433....
stranger
stranger : someone who is not a party or in privity with a party (as to a contract or legal action) [may be enforced against a to the contract] ...
Conditional limitation
Conditional limitation partakes of the nature both of a condition and a remainder. At the Common Law whenever either the whole fee or a particular estate, as an estate for life or in tail, was first limited, no condition or other quality could be annexed to this prior estate, which would have the double effect of defeating the estate, and passing the lands to a stranger, for as a remainder it was void, being an abridgment or defeasance of the estate first granted, and as a condition it was void, as no one but the donor or his heirs could take advantage of a condition broken; and the entry of the donor or his heirs unavoidably defeated the livery upon which the remainder depended. On these principles it was impossible by the old law to limit by deed, if not by will, an estate to a stranger upon any event which might abridge or determine an estate previously limited. But the expediency of such limitations, assisted by the revolution effected by the Statute of Uses, at length established ...
Abatement
Abatement, a making less:-(1) Abatement of Freehold.-The title of a real action which has been abolished. This takes place where a person dies seised of an inheritance, and before the heir or devisee enters, a stranger, having no right, makes a wrongful entry and gets possession of it. Such an entry is technically called an abatement, and the stranger an abater. It is, in fact, a figurative expression, denoting that the rightful possession or freehold of the heir or devisee is overthrown by the unlawful intervention of a stranger. Abatement differs from intrusion, in that it is always to the prejudice of the heir or immediate devisee, whereas the latter is to the prejudice of the reversioner or remainder man: and disseisin differs from them both, for to disseise is to put forcibly or fraudulently a person seised of the freehold out of possession, Co. Litt. 277a.(2) Abatement of Nuisances.-A remedy allowed by law to a person injured by a nuisance to remove or put an end to it by his own...
Advancement
Advancement, promotion; additional price. An advancement clause in a settlement or will is a provision authorizing the trustees, with the consent of the tenant for life, to pay by anticipation a limited portion of the share to which a remainderman will ultimately be entitled for his benefit or advancement in life.In equity the presumption of advancement is an important exception to the doctrine of resulting trusts that a conveyance to a stranger without a consideration is merely a nominal one, and no intention on the face of it of conferring the beneficial interests will result to the grantor. The presumption of advancement generally arises where a person advances money for the purchase of any property or right in the name of another for whom the purchaser is under a legal or even in some cases a moral obligation to provide. It will arise in favour of a wife, legitimate children, and in some cases in regard to persons to whom the purchaser stands in loco parentis, but it has been held ...
Intrusion
Intrusion, the entry of a stranger after a particular estate of freehold is determined before him in reversion or remainder. Where a tenant for life dies seized of certain lands or tenements, and a stranger enter thereon after such death of the tenant, and before any entry of him in remainder or reversion, such stranger is called an intruder. Intrusion was one of the five modes, the others being disseisin, abatement discontinuance and deforcement, which constituted adverse possession, from which time was computed under the old Limitation Acts.The writ of entry on intrusion is abolished by the (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27)....
Power
Power, in respect of court the word 'power' means an authority expressly or impliedly conferred on the court by law to do that which without that sanction it could not have done, consent cannot give jurisdiction, K.E. v. Vithu, (1899) 1 Bom LR 157.Power, is an authority reserved by, or limited to, a person to dispone, either wholly or partially, of movable or immovable property, either for his own benefit or for that of others. The word is used as a technical term and is distinct from the dominion which a man has over his own estate by virtue of ownership, Stroud's Judicial Dictionary.Power, is not synonymous with jurisdiction, K.E. v. Vithu, (1899) 1 Bom LR 157.Power, may be general or implied. The general powers are such as the donee can exercise in favour of such person or persons as he pleases, including himself, Mahadeo Ramchandra v. Damodar Vishwanath, AIR 1957 Bom 218.Means any form of energy which is not generated by human or animal agency. [The Gujarat Lifts and Escalators Act...
Hospitable
Receiving and entertaining strangers or guests with kindness and without reward kind to strangers and guests characterized by hospitality...
As against, as between
As against, as between, these words contrast the relative position of two persons with a tacit reference to a different relationship between one of them and a third person. For instance, the temporary bailee of a chattel is entitled to it, as between himself and a stranger, or as against a stranger; reference being made by this form of words to the rights of the bailor....
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