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Taking and retaining

Taking and retaining, the word 'taking and retaining' were used by s. 180 of the Act in an independent and exclusive sense. The former referred to taking of possession illegally and the latter to taking of possession legally but subsequent retaining of it illegally, Bhinka v. Charan Singh, AIR 1959 SC 960 (965): (1959) Supp 2 SCR 798. [U.P. Tenancy Act (17 of 1939), s. 180]...


Salary or wages

Salary or wages, means all remuneration (other than remuneration in respect of over-time work) capable of being expressed in terms of money, which would, if the terms of employment, express or implied, were fulfilled, be payable to an employee in respect of his employment or of work done in such employment and includes dearness allowance (that is to say, all cash payments, by whatever name called, paid to an employee on account of a rise in the cost of living), but does not include--(i) any other allowance which the employee is for the time being entitled to;(ii) the value of any house accommodation or of supply of light, water, medical attendance or other amenity or of any service or of any concessional supply of foodgrains or other articles.(iii) any travelling concession;(iv) any bonus (including incentive, production and attendance bonus);(v) any contribution paid or payable by the employer to any pension fund or provident fund or for the benefit of the employee under any law for t...


nonconformity

nonconformity pl: -ties 1 : failure to conform to or comply with something (as contract requirements) [acceptance of goods occurs when the buyer…will take or retain them in spite of their "Uniform Commercial Code"] 2 : a particular aspect in which something is nonconforming [cannot revoke an acceptance he made with knowledge of a "J. J. White and R. S. Summers"] ...


Impound

Impound, to place a suspected document in the custody of the law, when it is produced at a trial. As to custody of documents impounded by the Court, see R.S.C. Ord. XLII., r. 334.Means (1) To place (something such as a car or other personal property) in the custody of the police or the court, often with the understanding that it will be retuned intact at the end of the proceeding.(2) To take and retain possession of (something, such as a forged document to be produced as evidence) in preparation for a criminal prosecution, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 760....


Election

Election, the word 'election' means any and every act taken by the competent authority after the publication of the election notification, Manda Jaganath v. K.S. Rathnam, (2004) 7 SCC 492: AIR 2004 SC 3601 (3604).The act of selecting one or more from a greater number for an office.The exercise of his choice by a man left to his own free will to take or to do one thing or another. It is the obligation imposed upon a person to choose between two inconsistent or alternative rights or claims. Thus, in Scarf v. Jardine, (1882) 7 App Cas 345, the House of Lords held that a customer could not sue a new firm after having elected to sue a retiring partner.Electio semel facta et placitum testatum non patitur regressum. Quod semel placuit in electionibus amplius displicere non potest. Co. Litt. 146, 146 a.--(Elections once made and plea witnessed suffers not a recall. What has once pleased a man in elections cannot displease him on further consideration.) See also Re Simms, Ex p. Trustee, 1934 Ch...


Partnership

Partnership, the relation which subsists between persons carrying on a business with a view to profit--so defined by s. 1, sub-s. 1, of the (English) Partnership Act, 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 39), a codifying Act of fifty s.s, 'to declare and amend the law of partnership,' which, in effect, transfers the law of the subject from the region of reported cases to that of the statute; Bovill's Act' (see that title) of 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 86), and a small part of the (English) Mercantile Law Amendment Act of 1856, being the only previous statutory enactments on the subject.Rules, which, however, subject to any agreement express or implied between the partners, are laid down by s. 24 for determining the interest of partners in the partnership property and their rights and duties in relation to the partnership. They provide, amongst other things, for equal shares in profits and equal contributions to losses; for indemnification of every partner by the firm in respect of payments properly made...


Derivative settlement

Derivative settlement, in Poor Law that settlement (see SETTLEMENT) which a poor person may acquire from his parent's settlement. The (English) Poor Law Act, 1930 (20 Geo. 5, c. 17), s. 85, enacts:-(1) Until a person acquires a settlement of his own or derives a settlement from a husband, that person-(a) if a legitimate child, shall take and follow, up to the age of sixteen, the settlement of his father, or if and so long as his father has no settlement, the settlement which his mother had immediately before her marriage to his father, but if after the death of the father the mother acquires a settlement (not being a derivative settlement) shall take and follow, up to the age of sixteen, that settlement;(b) if an illegitimate child, shall take and follow, up to the age of sixteen, the settlement of his mother;and shall in either case retain that settlement which under the forgoing provisions of the section he had at the age of sixteen.(2) Deals with the settlement of a married woman.(3...


Nisi prius

Nisi prius, a Common Law phrase, which originated thus:An action was formerly triable only in the Court where it was brought. But it was provided by Magna Charta, in ease of the subject, that assizes of novel disseisin and mort-ancestor (which were the most common remedies of that day) should thenceforward instead of being tried at Westminster, in the superior Court, be taken in their proper counties, and for this purpose justices were to be sent into every county once a year to take these assizes there, 1 Reeves, 246. These local trials being convenient, were applied to other actions: for by the statute of Nisi Prius, 13 Edw. 1, st. 1, t. 30, as the general course of proceedings, writs of venire for summoning juries to the superior courts are in the following terms:-P'cipius tibi quod venire facias coram Justiciariis nostris apud Westm. In Octavis Sancti Michaelis Nisi talis et talis, tali die et loco, ad partes illas venerint duodecim, etc. Thus the trial was to be had at Westminster...


Court-leet

Court-leet. [Coke says leet is a Saxon word, and comes from the verb gelathian, or gelethian (g being added euphoni' gratia), i.e., convenire, to assemble together, unde conventus, 4 Inst. 261. For other opinions as to the derivation of the word, see Lex Man. 131; Ritson on Courts-leet; and Scriv. On Copyholds.] This court is expressly kept up by s. 40 of the Sheriffs Act, 1887, though for all but formal purposes it has long since fallen into desuetude, and there is still an annual Court-leet of the Manor and Liberty of Savoy which meets at St. Clement Danes Vestry Hall, the High Steward of the Manor presiding, a jury being empannelled one month aftr Easter and serving for a year from that date, the court being held 'for the purpose of preventing small offences in the nature of a common nuisance,' and still having 'power to impose fines for certain offenes, such the stopping up of ways': Solicitor's Journal,Vol. 49, p. 493.The Court-leet is a court of record appointed to be held once a...


Sale of Goods Act, 1893

Sale of Goods Act, 1893 (English) (56 & 57 Vict. c. 71), codifying the law of the sale of goods, in the same fashion as the law of bills of exchange, promissory notes, and cheques was codified (see CODE) by the Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, and the law of partnership by the (English) Partnership Act, 1890.The parts of the Act are:-I. Formation of the Contact, in which it is provided, amongst other things, that an infant or person by mental incapacity or drunkenness incompetentto contract must pay a reasonable price for 'necessaries' sold and delivered to him; that (re-enacting a part of the Statute of Frauds) a contract for the sale of goods of the value of 10l. or more is not enforceable unless the buyer accept and receive part, or give something in earnest to bind the contract, or 'unless some note or memorandum in writing of the contract be made and signed by the party to be charged or his agent in that behalf'; that a contract for the sale of specific goods which have perished witho...


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