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Things, the subjects of dominion or property, as distinguished from persons. They are distributed into three kinds: (1) things real or immovable, comprehending lands, tenements, and hereditaments; (2) things personal or movable comprehending goods and chattels; and (3) things mixed, partaking of the characteristics of the two former, as a title-deed, a term for years. the civil law divided things into corporeal (tangi possunt) and incorporeal (tangi non possunt). See CHOSE.Things, when used in conjunction with goods, ready money, etc., with reference to accounting between partnership includes, or extends to debts also as it is as general a word as could well be made use of, Gainshorough v. Stock, 27 ER 659...
Things done
Things done, is comprehensive enough to take in not only the things done, but also the effect onthe legal consequences flowing therefrom, Hasan Balak v. S.M. Limai, Assistant Charity Commissioner, Nagpur, AIR 1967 SC 1742: 1967 MP LJ 118: 1967 Jab LJ 526: AIR 1967 SC 1742: 1966 (68) Bom LR 133.The words 'things done' in paragraph 6 of the Order are comprehensive enough to take in a trans-action effected before the merger, though some of its legal effects and consequences projected into the post-merger period, Universal Imports Agency v. Chief Controller of Imports and Exports, AIR 1961 SC 41 (47): (1961) 1 SCR 305. [French Establishments (Application of Laws) Order (1954) Para 6](ii) The words 'things done' in paragraph 6 of S.R.O. 3315 were comprehensive so as to include a contract effected before November 1, 1954, through its legal effect and consequence projected into the post-transfer period and the goods were imported only after November 1, 1954, French India Importing Corporation...
Articles or things
Articles or things, the words 'articles and things' in the Fifth Schedule of the Income Tax Act, 1961 cannot be assigned to the words 'articles or things' used in section 32A and 80J, Commissioner of Income Tax, Bangalore v. Venkateswar Hatcheries (P) Ltd., (1999) 3 SCC 632....
Real things
Real things, things substantial and immovable, and the rights and profits annexed to or issuing out of them, 1 Steph. Com....
Things done or omitted to be done
Things done or omitted to be done, the phrase 'things done or omitted to be done' should be interpreted very narrowly and so interpreted settlements were not deemed to be wiped off. The effect, therefore, is that no payment could be demanded under them during the emergency, but, as soon as the emergency was over, the Settlements would revive and what could not be demanded during the emergency would become payable even for the period of emergency for which payment was suspended, Madan Mohan Pathak v. Union of India, AIR 1978 SC 803 (812): (1978) 2 SCC 50: (1978) 3 SCR 344....
Things done, action taken and right accrued
Things done, action taken and right accrued, what is unaffected by the repeal of a statute is a right acquired or accrued under it and not a mere 'hope or expectation of'. It must be mentioned that the object of s. 31(2)(i) is to preserve only the things done and action taken under the repealed Ordinance, and not the rights and privileges acquired and accrued on the one side, and the corresponding obligation or liability incurred on the other side, so that if no rights acquired under the repealed ordinance was preserved, there is no question of any liability being enforced, M.S. Shivananda v. Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation, AIR 1980 SC 77 (81): (1980) 1 SCC 149: (1980) 1 SCR 684...
Hire
Hire [locatio, conductio, Lat.], a bailment for a reward or compensation. It is divisible into four sorts:-(1) The hiring of a thing for use (locatio rei). (2) The hiring of work and labour (locatio operis faciendi). (3) The hiring of care and services to be performed or bestowed on the thing delivered (locatio custodi'). (4) The hiring of the carriage of goods (locatio operis mercium vehendarum) from one place to another. The three last are but sub-divisions of the general head of hire of labour and services.The rights, duties, and obligations of the parties resulting from the contract of bailment for hire may be thus stated:-(I.) Hire of things. The letting to hire implies an obligation to deliver the thing to the hirer; to refrain from every obstruction to the use of it by the hirer during the period of the bailment; to do no act that shall deprive the hirer of the thing; to warrant the title and right of possession to the hirer, in order to enable him to use the thing, or to perfor...
Institutions
Institutions. It was the object of Justinian to comprise in his Code and Digest, or Pandects, a complete body of law. But these works were not adapted to the purposes of elementary instruction, and the writings of the ancient jurists were no longer allowed to have any authority, except so far as they had been incorporated in the digest, Smith's Dict. of Antiq. It was therefore necessary to prepare an elementary treatise, and the Institutes were published a month before the Pandects, A.D. 533, and designed as an elementary introduction to legal study (legum cunabula). The work was divided into four books, subdivided into titles.The Institutes are the elements of the Roman Law, and were composed at the command of the Emperor Justinian, by Trebonian, Dorotheus, and The ophilus, who took them from the writings of the ancient lawyers, and chiefly from those of Gaius especially from his Institutes and his books called Aureorum (i.e., of important matters).The Institutes are divided into four...
Goods
Goods, Computer programs are the product of an intellectual process, but once implanted in a medium they are widely distributed to computer owners. An analogy can be drawn to a compact-disc recording of an orchestral rendition. The music is produced by the artistry of musicians and in itself is not a 'good', but when transferred to a laser-readable disc it becomes a readily merchant-able commodity. Similarly, when a professor deliv-ers a lecture, it is not a good, but, when transcribed as a book, it becomes a good. That a computer program may be copyrightable as intellectual property does not alter the fact that once in the form of a floppy disc or other medium, the program is tangible, moveable and available in the marketplace. The fact that some programs may be tailored for specific purposes need not alter their status as 'goods' because the Code definition includes 'specially manufactured goods', Advent Systems Ltd. v. Unisys Corpn., 925 F. 2d 670 3dCir 1991. Associated Cement Compa...
Pawn or Pledge
Pawn or Pledge [fr. pignus, Lat.], a bailment of goods by a debtor to his creditor, to be kept till the debt is discharged.A mortgage of goods is in the Common Law distinguishable from a mere pledge or pawn. By a mortgage the whole legal title passes conditionally to the mortgagee; and if the goods be not redeemed at the stipulated time, the title becomes absolute at law although equity allows a redemption. But in a pledge, a special property only passes to the pledgee, the general property remaining in the pledgor. Also, in the case of a pledge, the right of a pledgee is not consummated, except by possession; and, ordinarily, when that possession is relinquished, the right of the pledgee is extinguished or waived. But, in the case of a mortgage of personal property the right of property passes by the conveyance to the mortgagee, and the possession is not or may not be essential to create or support the title.As to things which may be the subject of pawn: These are, ordinarily, goods a...
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