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Jus accrescendi pr'fertur ultim' voluntati

Jus accrescendi pr'fertur ultim' voluntati. Co. Litt. 185 b.-(The right of survivorship is preferred to the last will.)...


Ultimate

Ultimate, in common parlance means last or final, J.K. Industries Ltd. v. Chief Inspector of Factories and Boilers, 1997 SCC (L&S) 1....


Ultimatum, or ultimation

Ultimatum, or ultimation, the last offer, concession, or condition.The final and categorical proposal made in negotiating a treaty, contract, or the like, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....


Employer

Employer, means (i) a company; (ii) a firm; (iii) an association of persons or a body of individuals, whether incorporated or not, but excluding any fund or trust or institution eligible for exemption under clause (23C) of section 10 or registered under section 12AA; (iv) a local authority; and (v) every artificial judicial person, not falling within any of the preceding sub-clauses. [Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), s. 115W(a)]Employer, means:A person who controls and direct a worker under an express or implied contract of hire and who pays the workers salary or wages, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.(a) in relation to contract labour, the principal employer, and(b) in relation to other labour, the person who has the ultimate control over the affairs of any establishment or who has, by reason of his advancing money, supplying goods or otherwise, a substantial interest in the control of the affairs of any establishment, and includes any other person to whom the affairs of the establi...


Hinduism

Hinduism, Hinduism is so tolerant and Hindu religious practices so varied and eclectic that one would find it difficult to say whether one is practicing or professing Hindu religion or not. Especially when one is born a Hindu the fact that he goes to a Buddhist temple or a church or a durgah cannot be said to show that they are no more Hindus unless it is clearly proved that they have changed their religion from Hinduism to some other religion, Ganpat v. Presiding Officer, AIR 1975 SC 420 (424): (1975) 1 SCC 589: (1975) 2 SCR 923.Hinduism cannot be defined in terms of Polytheism or Henotheism or Monotheism. The nature of Hindu religion ultimately is Monism/Advaita. This is in contradistinction to Monotheism which means only one God to the exclusion of all others. Polytheism is a belief of multiplicity of Gods. On the contrary, Monism is a spiritual belief of one Ultimate Supreme who manifests himself as many. This multiplicity is not contrary to on-dualism. This is the reason why Hindu...


In the manufacture of goods

In the manufacture of goods would normally encompass the entire process carried on by the dealer of converting raw materials into finished goods. Where any particular process is so integrally connected with the ultimate production of goods that but for that process, manufacture or processing of goods would be commercially inexpedient, goods required in that process would, in our judgment, fall with in the expression 'in the manufacture of goods, Rajasthan SEB v. Associated Stone Industries, (2000) 6 SCC 141.In the manufacture of goods, the expression 'in the manufacture of goods' in s. 8(3)(b) of the Central Sales Tax Act, 1956 should normally encompasses the entire process carried on by the dealer of converting the raw material into finished goods. Where any particular process is so integrally connected with the ultimate production of goods that, but for that process, manufacture or process-ing of goods would be commercially inexpedient, goods, required in that process would fall with...


toll

toll [Old English, tax or fee paid for a liberty or privilege, ultimately from Late Latin telonium custom house, from Greek tolōnion, from telōnēs collector of tolls, from telos tax, toll] : a charge for the use of a transportation route or facility ;broadly : a charge for use [a water ] vb [Anglo-French tollir toller to take away, make null, bar, ultimately from Latin tollere to lift up, take away] vt 1 : to take away (as a right) 2 a : to remove the effect of [the court did not the statute of repose after the statutory period had expired] b : suspend [ the running of the statute of limitations] compare run vi : to be suspended [statute of limitations s for a period of seventy-five days following the notice "Parker v. Yen, 823 S.W.2d 359 (1991)"] n : a suspension of effect [the court extended the statute of limitations ] ...


Monad

An ultimate atom or simple unextended point something ultimate and indivisible...


Advancement

Advancement, promotion; additional price. An advancement clause in a settlement or will is a provision authorizing the trustees, with the consent of the tenant for life, to pay by anticipation a limited portion of the share to which a remainderman will ultimately be entitled for his benefit or advancement in life.In equity the presumption of advancement is an important exception to the doctrine of resulting trusts that a conveyance to a stranger without a consideration is merely a nominal one, and no intention on the face of it of conferring the beneficial interests will result to the grantor. The presumption of advancement generally arises where a person advances money for the purchase of any property or right in the name of another for whom the purchaser is under a legal or even in some cases a moral obligation to provide. It will arise in favour of a wife, legitimate children, and in some cases in regard to persons to whom the purchaser stands in loco parentis, but it has been held ...


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