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transit alien An alien in immediate and continuous transit through the United States, with or without a visa, including, 1) aliens who qualify as persons entitled to pass in transit to and from the United Nations Headquarters District and foreign countries and 2) foreign government officials and their spouses and unmarried minor (or dependent) children in transit. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...
transit without visa (twov)
transit without visa (twov) A transit alien traveling without a nonimmigrant visa. An alien admitted under agreements with a transportation line, which guarantees his immediate and continuous passage to a foreign destination. (See Transit Alien.) Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...
In transit
In transit, 'in transit', in relation to the carriage of goods by railway, means the period between the commencement and the termination of transit of such goods, and unless otherwise previously determined--(a) transit commences as soon as the railway receipt is issued or the consignment is loaded, whichever is earlier;(b) transit terminates on the expiry of the free time allowed for unloading of consignment from any rolling stock and where such unloading has been completed within such free time, transit terminates on the expiry of the free time allowed, for the removal of the goods from the railway premises. [Railway Act, 1989 (24 of 1989), s. 2(21)]...
Alien
Alien [fr. alienigena, alibi natus, Lat.], a person not born within His Majesty's dominions and allegiance (q.v.). See definitions in the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Acts, 1914 and 1933, infra. At common law aliens were subject to very many disqualifications, the nature of which is shown by the (English) Act of 1844, 7 & 8 Vict. c. 66, which greatly relaxed the law in their favour. It provided, inter alia, that every person born of a British mother should be capable of holding real or personal estate; that alien friends might hold every species of personal property except chattels real; that subjects of a friendly power might hold lands, etc., for the purposes of residence or business for a term not exceeding twenty-one years; and it also provided for aliens becoming naturalized.Alien, (UK) is a person who is neither a Common-wealth citizen nor a British protected person nor a citizen of the Republic of Ireland. Aliens therefore include both persons having the nationality ...
Stoppage in transit
Stoppage in transit. 'When the buyer of goods becomes insolvent, the unpaid seller who has parted with the possession of the goods has the right of stopping them in transitu; that is to say, he may resume possession of the goods as long as they are in course of transit, and may retain them until payment or tender of the price.'-Sale of Goods Act, 1893 (see that title), s. 44, embodying the law of Lickbarrow v. Mason, (1787) 6 East 21; 1 Sm LC....
Alien enemy
Alien enemy, a subject of a nation which is at war with this country. A contract with him is void, Brandon v. Nesbitt, (1794) 6 TR 23, unless he have a safe conduct or be living in this country by licence of the Crown; and so is a contract with his wife, De Wahl v. Braune, (1856) 25 LJ Ex 343. Further, not only commercial intercourse but all intercourse with an alien enemy is prohibited by the common law; see The Hoop, (1799) 1 C Rob 196, where Sir William Scott described an alien enemy as 'totally ex lege'; The Cosmopolite, (1801) 4 C Rob 8; The Panariellos, (1915) 138 LT Journ 484. Nor can an alien enemy exercise a right of voting in respect of shares in an English company, Robson v. Premier Oil Co., 1915 (2) Ch 124, nor (unless within the realm by the King's licence) can he sue here during the war, though he remains liable to be sued, Porter v. Freudenbery, 1915 (1) KB 857. As to the Crown's right at common law to forfeit the private property of subjects of an enemy state, see In re...
deportable alien
deportable alien An alien in and admitted to the United States subject to any grounds of removal specified in the Immigration and Nationality Act. This includes any alien illegally in the United States, regardless of whether the alien entered the country by fraud or misrepresentation or entered legally but subsequently violated the terms of his or her nonimmigrant classification or status. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...
restraint on alienation
restraint on alienation :something that serves to prevent a party from alienating property ;specif : a provision in an instrument (as a deed or will) that purports to prohibit or penalize the use of the power of alienation NOTE: Though not necessarily unlawful, restraints on alienation are disfavored in the law. ...
Restraint on alienation
Restraint on alienation. Although conditions in restraint of alienation of an absolute interest in possession in either real or personal property are generally void on the ground of repugnancy [see Re Dugdale, (1888) 38 Ch D 176, and RE-PUGNANT], gifts of a life estate or of income or apparently of a reversionary interest, Churchill v. Marks, (1844) 1 Coll 441, until alienation or charging, are permissible, if there is a gift over and the gift is properly expressed [see Re Mabbett, (1891) 1 Ch 707, and Trustee Act, 1925, s. 33]. A settlement upon himself by a settlor determining his estate upon bankruptcy is void. As to alienation of advowson, see Benefices Act, 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. 48), and ADVOWSONS. As to church property, see Halsb. Laws of England, tit. 'Ecclesiastical Law,' and as to married woman, see ANTICIPATION.A restriction, usu. in a deed of conveyance, on a grantee's ability to sell or transfer real property; a provision that conveys an interest and that, even after inter...
Brought in transit
Brought in transit, of means to bring goods from any country into India by land, air, or amphibious means of transportation, where the goods are to be taken out from India on the same conveyance on which they are brought into India without any landing in India, but does not include a conveyance in innocent passage through Indian territory Indian territorial waters or Indian airspace of a foreign conveyance carrying goods.Explanation I.--A conveyance is a foreign conveyance if it is not registered in India.Explanation II.--A conveyance is in 'innocent passage' if it is not engaged in relevant activity and passes through or above Indian territorial waters or airspace without stopping or anchoring in India. [Weapons of Mass Destruction and Their Delivery Systems (Prohibition of Unlawful Activities) Act, 2005 (21 of 2005), s. 4(b)]....
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