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Right and legal right

merely legal protection but also legal recognition. The elements of a 'Legal Right' are that the 'right' is vested in a person and is available against a person who is under a corresponding obligation and duty to

Retrospective or retroactive law

Retrospective or retroactive law, as one which takes away or impairs vested or accrued rights acquired under existing law. A retroactive law takes away or impairs vested rights acquired under

Retrospective law

or facts occurring, or rights occurring, before it came into force. Every statute which takes away or impairs vested rights acquired under existing laws, or creates a new obligation, imposes a new duty, or attaches a new

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Public sewer

Public Health Act, 1936, s. 20, sewers, which by virtue of the section continue to be or become vested in a local authority, shall be known as public sewers, provided that a sewer constructed by a local

Pension

raison d'etre for pensions is the inability to provide for oneself due to old age. It creates a vested right and is governed by the statutory rules such as the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules which are

Partition

Law of Property Act, ss. 1 (6), 34, and (English) Settled Land Act s. 36, the entirety becoming vested in trustees for sale, the (English) Partition Acts, 1868 and 1876, were repealed by the (English) Law of

Abstract of title

this doctrine: see LEGAL ESTATE; PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES; SETTLEMENT; MORTGAGE; TRUSTEES FOR SALE; UNDIVIDED SHARES; EQUITABLE INTERESTS, BANKRUPTCY and VESTING ORDERS. Abstracts on behalf of vendors who are absolute owners entitled in fee simple in possession are not

Pardon

OF MERCY. Pardon is one of the many prerogatives which have been recognised since time immemorial as being vested in the sovereign, wherever the sovereignty might lie. It is open to the Governor to grant a full

Owner

WLR 465. Owner, of a property is a person in whom it is for the time being beneficially vested, and who has the occupation, or control, or usufruct, of it; e.g. a lessee is, during the term,

Monarchy

Monarchy [fr., Gk.], a government in which the supreme power is vested in a single person. where a monarch is invested with absolute power, the monarchy is termed despotic; where

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