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Not yet become binding on the parties
stage. The award which is sought to have been enforced as foreign award will have thus to be tested with reference to the key words contained in Article V(1)(e) of the Convention and the question will have … the award. In other words the provision has in its contemplation the fact that an award in some cases may become binding only at a later stage. The award which is sought to have been enforced as
Knowledge of the decree
defendant is insufficient to impute to him knowledge of the decree within the meaning of Art. 164. The test of the sufficiency is not what the information would mean to a stranger, but what it meant to … vague information that some decree has been passed against him. It is a question of fact in each case whether the information conveyed to the defendant is insufficient to impute to him knowledge of the decree within
Pone
Bench or Common Pleas by writ of pone. It was an original writ obtained from the cursitor, bearing teste after the entry of the plaint in the County Court, and returnable on a general day in term, … Pone. If goods had been replevied by virtue of a replegiari facias (which was rarely if ever the case), the plaint in a County Court was removed into the King's Bench or Common Pleas by writ of
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Ringing the changes
gave him a good shilling to change. The prisoner put the shilling into his mouth, as if to test it by biting, and returning a shilling, said it was a bad one. The buyer gave him a … pretends it is not good, and, changing it, returns to the buyer a counterfeit one, as in Frank;s case, 2 Leach, 64:--A man having bargained with the prisoner, who was selling fruit about the street, to have
Dying declaration
and it is neither made on oath nor in the presence of the accused. It is, therefore, not tested by cross-examination on behalf of the accused. But a dying declaration is admitted in evidence by way of … resulted in his death and it becomes relevant under s. 32(1) of the Indian Evidence Act in a case in which the cause of that person's death comes into question. It is true that a dying declaration
Durham rule
insanity the defendant's criminal act must be the product of a mental disease or defect compare irresistible impulse test, m'naghten test, substantial capacity test … Durham rule [from Durham v. United States, 214 F.2d 862 (1954), a case heard by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals that established the rule] : a rule of criminal
Autrefois acquit
second time, he may plead autrefois acquit, which will be a good bar to the indictment. The true test, whether such a plea is a sufficient bar, is, whether the evidence necessary to support the second indictment … Autrefois acquit (formerly acquitted), a plea in criminal cases; when a person is indicted for an offence and acquitted, he cannot be afterwards indicted for the same
Motor Car
diseases or disabilities which might cause him to be a source of danger); also he must pass a test in actual driving; but a person who has had a driving licence previously to the commencement of the … under a pressure of 1.013 bar or plant and material for producing such fuel; or (3) in a case falling within neither head (1) nor head (2) above, does not exceed 2,540 kilograms, See Halsbury's Laws of
Charitable purpose
in Addl. C.I.T. v. Surat Art Silk Cloth Manufacturers Association, (1980) 121 ITR 1 affirmed that the aforesaid test of primary or dominant purpose of a trust or institution still holds good, that the restrictive words qualify … the last head of charitable purpose. In CIT v. Andhra Chamber of Commerce, (1965) 55 ITR 722, a case decided by the Supreme Court under the 1922 Act, where the restrictive words were absent, this court laid
Life-rent
the law relating to exchange control; and in the law relating to trading with the enemy where the test of control is adopted, Tata Engineering and Locomotive Co. Ltd. v. State of Bihar, AIR 1965 SC 40 … of the lifting of the veil has been applied in the words of Palmer in five categories of cases; where companies are in the relationship of holding and subsidiary (or subsidiary) companies; where a shareholder has lost
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