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Baler

of England, Vol. 1(2), 4th Edn., Para 920, p. 554. Means a stationary machine used for baling or trusting straw or fodder, and includes a trusser, Halsbury's Laws of England Vol. 20, 4th Edn., Para 832, p.

Benami

a gift in favour of the person in whose name the transfer is taken. S. 82 of Indian Trusts Act, 1882. Syed Abdul Khader v. Rami Reddy, (1979) 2 SCC 601: AIR 1979 SC 553.

Circumstantial evidence

is merely circumstantial. If positive evidence of a fact can be produced, circumstantial evidence ought not to be trusted. Chief Baron Gilbert, therefore, considered it a higher species of proof. He says, 'When the fact itself cannot

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Confidence trick

trick to deposit money or property with A. or a third party in order to show that B. trusts A. or the third party. Usually a preliminary to some joint but fictitious undertaking promising enormous bene-fits to

Constructive notice

to take a shorter title than he could call for by statute is affected by notice of all trusts and equities of which he would have had notice if he had seen the full title. See Cox

Conveyance

or of any interest therein by any instrument, except a will.' See CONVEYANCING ACT; DEED; LAW OF PROPERTY; TRUSTS. Includes a conveyance on sale and every instrument by which property, whether movable or immovable, is transferred inter

Coparceners or parceners

was abolished by the (English) L.P. Act,1925, s. 1, the entirety of the legal estate becoming vested in trustees for sale under s. 34 of that Act, but as from the 1st January, 1926, coparceners retain all

Costs

'the costs of and incident to all proceedings in the Supreme Court, including the administration of estates and trusts, shall be in the discretion of the Court'; but there is a saving for the right of a

University

Cambridge University, with powers to make statutes and regulations for the University, its colleges and halls, emoluments, endowments trusts, foundations, institutions, etc., in general accordance with the recommendations contained in the Report of the Royal Commission appointed

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