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Transfer, a permanent alienation is a transfer and a permanent alienation includes the several kinds of transfers, namely, sale, exchange or gift, Syed Jalal v. Targopal Ram Reddy, AIR 1970 AP 19.Transfer, cannot have the widest comprehension, and does not indicate or include compulsory transfer or forced transfer, like court auction sale, Kharva Gigabhai Mavji v. Soni Jagjivvan Kanji, 1979 (20) Guj LR 256.Transfer, connotes, normally, between two living persons during life; will take effect after demise of the testator and transfer in that perspective becomes incongruous, State of West Bengal v. Kailash Chandra Kapur, (1997) 2 SCC 387.Transfer, Decrees which would have the effect of extinguishing the tittle of the holder and nesting the same in some one else though not falling within the ordinary meaning of the phrase 'transfer of property' would be 'transfers' within the meaning of the term as used in ss. 4 and 5, Jagdish v. State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1993 MP 132. [See M.P. Ceiling...
Adjournment Motion
Adjournment Motion, means a motion for discussing 'a specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration'. Wilding and Laundry, the Office of the Speaker in Parliament of Commonwealth, p. 247. 'Adjourn motion' is a motion which can be moved by any member of the House and is in the nature of emergency motion of censure upon the government. Wilding and Laundry -- The Office of the Speaker in Parliament of Commonwealth, p. 9.The object is to draw the attention of the Govern-ment to a matter of urgent public importance so as to criticize the decision of Government in an urgent matter in regard to which a motion or resolution with proper notice will be too late. Kaul and Shakdher -- Practice and Procedure of Parliament, 5th Edn., 2001, p. 496.If the Speaker gives his consent after satisfying himself that the matter to be raised is definite urgent and of public importance and holds that the matter proposed to be discussed is in order, he shall call the member concerned who sh...
Emigrate and emigration
Emigrate and emigration, mean the departure out of India of any person with a view to taking up any employment (whether or not under an agreement or other arrangements to take up such employment and whether with or without the assistance of a recruiting agent or employer) in any country or place outside India. [Emigration Act, 1983 (31 of 1983), s. 2(1)(f)]...
Dredge
Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging as a A dragnet for taking up oysters etc from their beds b A dredging machine c An iron frame with a fine net attached used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea...
Parole
Parole is not a suspension of sentence, but is a substitution, during continuance of parole, of lower grade of punishment by confinement in legal custody and under control of warden within specified prison bounds outside the prison, for confinement within the prison adjudged by the court, Jenkins v. Madigan CA Ind, 211 F 2d 904.A parole relates to executive action taken after the door has been closed on a convict. During parole period there is no suspension of sentence but sentence is actually continuing to run during that period also, State of Haryana v. Nauratta Singh, AIR 2000 SC 1179 (1182): (2002) 3 SCC 514. (Criminal PC, 1973, ss. 432, 433A, 389, 482)The promise made by a prisoner of war, when he has leave to go anywhere, to return at a time appointed, or not to take up arms till exchanged.Release on parole is a wing of the reformative process and is expected to provide opportunity to the prisoner to transform himself into a useful citizen. It is also an act of grace and not a ma...
Underwriting
Underwriting, means that the person who agrees to take up shares specified in the underwriting agreement if the public or other persons fail to subscribed for them. The consideration for this contract takes the form of payment of commission, called 'underwriting commission, CIT Kanpur v. Uttar Pradesh State Industrial Development Corporation, (1997) 4 SCC 701....
Carry over
Carry over, a term used in the Stock Exchange to denote the process of postponing the completion of a contract, either for the purchase or sale of stocks or shares, to a later date than that originally fixed. When this happens the buyer usually pays the seller interest on the capital involved, the seller retaining the stocks or shares till the transaction is ultimately completed. This interest is called a 'contango.' If, on the other hand, the buyer is anxious to pay for and take up to stocks or shares but the seller is unable to deliver, the buyer would not pay interest to the seller, but on the contrary exacts a payment from him, as consideration for postponing the completion of the contract. This payment is called a 'backwardation,' or shortly a 'back.'An income-tax deduction (esp. for a net operating loss) that cannot be taken entirely in a given period but may be taken in a later period (usu. the next five years), Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
Bill of credit
Bill of credit, a license or authority given in writing from one person to another, very common among merchants, bankers, and those who travel, empowering a person to receive or take up money of their correspondents abroad....
Metabolism
The act or process by which living tissues or cells take up and convert into their own proper substance the nutritive material brought to them by the blood or by which they transform their cell protoplasm into simpler substances which are fitted either for excretion or for some special purpose as in the manufacture of the digestive enzymes Hence metabolism may be either constructive anabolism or destructive catabolism...
Invertin
An enzyme which causes cane sugar to take up a molecule of water and be converted into invert sugar...
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