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Wife and husband

and husband' means a person claiming to be a wife or husband. The expression cannot be given a strict meaning as to convey only legally married wife and husband, Laxmibai v. Ayodhya Prasad alias Ramadhar, AIR 1991

Warranty

is nothing, if the facts are present, to prevent the performance or fulfilment of a warranty in its strict sense of a collateral agreement from being at the same time a condition either of a transfer of

Waive

(a claim, privilege, right etc.): to give up (a right, claim) 2. To refrain from instituting on (a strict rate formality, etc.); to forego, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn

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Tutius semper est errare acquietando quam in puniendo, ex parte misericordia quam ex parte justitia

it is always safer to err in acquitting than in punishing: on the side of mercy, then of strict justice.

To be a witness

witness' in its ordinary grammatical sense means giving oral testimony in Court. Case law has gone beyond this strict literal interpretation of the expression which may now bear a wider meaning, namely, bearing testimony in Court or

Tail

after 1925. [(English) L. P. Act, 1925, s. 133] In order to prevent a son tenant-in-tail defeating a strict family settlement, against the wish of his father, the tenant for life, the legislature has introduced a reasonable

Fixtures

The fixtures must be moved before the tenant's term or interest expires, unless in the case of a strict tenancy at will, when the tenant may be allowed a reasonable time after his tenancy, if his interest

Sufficient cause

separate standards to determine the cause laid by the State vis-a-vis private litigant could be laid to prove strict standards of sufficient cause, State of Haryana v. Chandra Mani, AIR 1996 SC 1623: (1996) 3 SCC 132.

Fee

fee and the services rendered. It is increasingly realised that the element of quid pro quo in the strict sense is not a sine qua non for a fee. (1983 4 SCC 353 follow), Sreenivasa General Traders

Inspection

The act or process of inspecting or looking at carefully a strict or prying examination close or careful scrutiny investigation

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