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Reception order

reception of feebleminded and mentally defective persons, see the (English) Mental Deficiency Acts, 1913 to 1927; of (English) Voluntary Patients, the Mental Treatment Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 23). Means an order made under

Reconstruction company

and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 (54 of 2002), s. 2(1)(v)] Reconstruction of a company, upon a voluntary winding-up the company may sell its undertaking for property of (including profits in) the purchas-ing company; see Companies

Reduction ex capite lecti

Reduction ex capite lecti. By the law of Scotland the heir in heritage was entitled to reduce all voluntary deeds granted to his prejudice by his predecessor within sixty days preceding the predecessor's death; provided the maker

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Controlled school

Controlled school, is a voluntary school which the secretary of State has directed is to be a controlled school. Halsbury's Laws of England,

Paralysis

Abolition of function whether complete or partial esp the loss of the power of voluntary motion with or without that of sensation in any part of the body palsy See Hemiplegia and Paraplegia

Concession

Supp (1) SCC 480: AIR 1992 SC 53 (57). [Maharashtra Municipalities (Octroi) Rules (1968), R. 4(2)] 1. The voluntary yielding to a demand for the sake of a settlement 2. International Law. A contract in which a

gift

giving up dominion over the property and investing it in the donee who accepts it ;broadly : a voluntary transfer of property without compensation see also delivery compare donation, sale class gift : a usually testamentary gift

Connivance

Intentional failure or forbearance to discover a fault or wrongdoing voluntary oversight passive consent or cooumlperation

Condescension

The act of condescending voluntary descent from ones rank or dignity in intercourse with an inferior courtesy toward inferiors

Concession

of conceding or yielding usually implying a demand claim or request and thus distinguished from giving which is voluntary or spontaneous

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