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taker

taker : one that takes: as a : one that takes property by will or descent [a residuary ] b : one to whom a negotiable instrument is transferred ...

Deposit-taker, means the person with whom the deposits which are invited by a deposit advertise-ment are to be made, Banking Act, 1984 (Advertise-ments) Regulation 1988, SI 1988/645 reg 1(3) Halsbury's Laws of England 3(1), para 31, p. 70....

Guest-taker

Guest-taker, an agister; one who took cattle into feed in the royal forests....

Trust

Trust, is a comprehensive expression, as covering not only the relationship of trustee and beneficiary but also that a bailor and bailee master and servant pledger and pledgee, guardian and ward and all other relations which postulate the existence of fiduciary relationship between the complainant and the accused, State v. K.P. Jain, (1983) 2 Crimes 947 (All).Trust, is a trust for public purposes, the substances and primary intention of the creator must be seen, Shabbir Husain v. Ashiq Husain, AIR 1929 Oudh 225.Trust, is an obligation annexed to ownership. A trustee holds property 'subject' to an obligation, which the testator has imposed upon him, Mahadeo Ramchandra v. Damodar Vishwanath, AIR 1957 Bom 218: (1957) 59 Bom LR 478.Means any arrangement whereby property is transferred with intention that it be administered for another's benefit is a trust. It casts an obligation on the trustee to use the property for achieving the purpose for which the trust is created, Baba Jamuna Das Mah...

failure of issue

failure of issue :lack of living issue (as of a person named to take under a will) at death definite failure of issue : a failure of issue determined at a specific time set in a will (as at the death of a named taker) indefinite failure of issue : a failure of issue for which no time period is fixed in a will ...

Censor

Censor. A person who regulates or prohibits the publication of any newspaper or the production of any play or any part thereof. There is ordinarily no censorship of the press in England; but by ss. 12 and 14 of the (English) Theatres Act, 1843 (6 & 7 Vict. c. 68), a copy of every new stage play must, before it is acted for hire at any theatre in Great Britain, be sent to the Lord Chamberlain of His Majesty's Household, who will issue a license for its production or forbid it for the 'preservation of good manners, decorum, or the public peace.' See THEATRE; CINEMATOGRAPH.Roman Law. A Roman officer who acted as a census taker, assess or, and reviewer of public morals, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....

Deed

Deed [fr. d'd, Sax.; ded gaded, Goth.;daed, Dut.], a formal document on paper or parchment duly signed, sealed, and delivered. It is either an indenture (factum inter partes) needing an actual indentation [(English) Real Property Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 106), s. 5], reproduced by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 56 (2), made between two or more persons in different interests, or a deed-poll (charta de una parte) made by a single person or by two or more persons having similar interests. By the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 57, a deed may be described according to the nature of the transaction, e.g., 'this lease,' 'this mortgage,' etc., or as a 'deed' and not habitually by the word 'indenture.'The requisites of a deed are these:-(1) Sufficient parties and a proper subject of assurance.(2) It must be written, engrossed, printed, or lithographed, or partly written or engrossed, and partly printed or lithographed in any character or in any language, on paper, vellum, or parchm...

Larceny

Larceny [fr. larcin, Fr.; latrocinium, Lat.], contracted from latrociny, the unlawful taking and carrying away of things personal, with intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same. Larceny is a felony, and is either simple or accompanied with circumstances of aggravation:(1) Simple larceny at Common Law, or plain theft. To constitute the offence there must be an unlawful taking, which implies that the goods must pass from the possession of a true owner (including one who has a qualified property only in the goods, as a bailee), and without his consent; where there is, then, no change of possession, or a change of it by consent, or a change from the possession of a person without title to that of the true owner, there cannot be a larceny. As to the difference between property parted with by the owner of his own free will, however fradulently influenced, in other words, between property 'entrusted' and 'possession by a trick,' see Oppenheimer v. Frazer, (1907) 2 KB 50, and Lake v. S...

Mainpernor

Mainpernor [fr. main, Fr., hand, and preneur taker]. See MAINPRIZE.Mainpernor, 1. A surety for a prisoner's appearance; one who gives main prise for another. 2. A form of bail taken under a writ of mainprise, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 964....

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