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Lease

fine limited after 1925 to take effect more than 21 years from the date of its creation is void, a contract for such a term is also void but leases of an equitable interest under settlement or

Infant

one who cannot speak], a person under twenty-one years of age, whose acts are in many cases either void or voidable. See AGE. At Common Law, the contracts of infants are divided into three classes: 1st. Those

Supersede

FAJ 443: (1984) 1 FAC 41. The word 'supersede' in law, means 'obliterate, set aside, annul, replace, make void or inefficacious or useless, repeal', Calcutta Municipal Corporation v. Pawan Kumar Saraf, AIR 1999 SC 738 (740): (1999)

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Irritant clause

clause, a provision by which certain prohibited acts specified in a deed are declared to be null and void. A resolute clause dissolves and puts an end to the right of a proprietor on his committing the

Material alteration

the instrument as originally expressed, or reduces to certainty some provision which was originally unascertained and as such void, or which may otherwise prejudice the party bound by the deed as originally executed, Loonkaran Sethia v. Mr.

Restraint of marriage

gifts or bequests to a person who has never been married, if in general restraint of marriage, are void, i.e., the donee or legatee takes the gift or bequest whether he or she marry or not; but

Restraint on alienation

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

Revocation

(48). [Preventive Detention Act, 1950, s. 13(2)] The undoing of a thing granted, or a destroying or making void of some deed that had existence until the act of revocation made it void. It may be either

Revoke

Third New International Dictionary. Means the recall of some authority or thing granted or a destroying or making void of some deed that had existence until the act of revocation made it void, Black's Law Dictionary.

Voluntary conveyance

mortgage for valuable consideration or property coming to the settlor after marriage in right of his wife in void if the settlor becomes bankrupt within two years in any case, and within ten years if the settlor

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