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Public servant
committee of a muni-cipality is a 'public servant' within the meaning of the s. 2; Maharudrappa Danappa Kesarappanavar v. State of Mysore, AIR 1961 SC 785: (1962) 1 SCR 129. (ii) The Minister is a 'public servant'.
Plant
factory or business; the apparatus or equipment for a certain mechanical operation or process, Steel City Beverages Ltd. v. State of Bihar, (1996) 1 Pat LJR 868. Plant, has frequently been used in fiscal and other legislation.
Passing off
usually dealing with one to accept the other if offered to him, it is enough, National Match Works v. S.T. Karuppanna Nadar, AIR 1979 Mad 157. An infringement action is available where there is violation of specific
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Actio personalis moritur cum persona.
been applied to actions arising out of contracts of a purely personal nature, e.g., promise to marry, Finley v. Chirney, (1880) 20 QBD 494, or to write a book or paint a picture, See Leake on Contracts;
Control
or influence. Control is intended to regulate and hold in check a restrain from action, State of Mysore v. Allum Karibasuppa, AIR 1974 SC 1863 (1866). [Karnataka Co-operative Societies Act, (11 of 1959), s. 54] The word
Adverse possession
belongs and tends to extinguish that person's title, see (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 57), which provides that no person shall make an entry or distress, or bring an action to
Business
meaning. Its perceptions differ from private to public sector or from institutional financing to commercial banking, Mahesh Chandra v. Regional Manager Uttar Pradesh Financial Corpn., AIR 1993 SC 935 (939): (1993) 2 SCC 279. [State Financial Corporation
Confession
exculpatory assertion of some fact, which if true, would negative the offence alleged cannot amount to a confession, Veera Ibrahim v. State of Maharashtra, (1976) 2 SCC 302: AIR 1976 SC 1167 (1171): (1967) 3 SCR 672.
Contempt of court
and out of Court. Among the former are all unseemly behaviour (for which, and which only (see Reg. v. Lefroy, (1873) LR 8 QB 134), there is an express power to punish by s. 162 of the
Ordinarily
Ordinarily, may means 'normally', State of Andhra Pradesh v. V. Sharma Rao, AIR 2007 SC 137; Kailash Chandra v. Union of India, (1962) 1 SCR 374: AIR
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