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Entitled to act

competent to alienate the land and receive and give a good discharge for the purchase money on a voluntary sale. [Land Acquisition Act, 1894, s. 3(g)]

taxes, 'Fees' are the amounts paid for a privilege, and are not an obligation, but the payment is voluntary. Fees are distinguished from taxes in that the chief purpose of a tax is to raise funds for

Deposit

depositor may meet without proper opportunity for reflection or choice, and thence it is called miserabile depositum; (2) voluntary, which arises from the mere consent and agreement of the parties. the Common Law has made no such

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Incorporated Law Society

will be found in the Society's Handbook published in 1933. The Society is, in the first place, a voluntary association of solicitors for their mutual protection and benefit, and in this connection is regulated by its charters

Conveyance

(c)] Includes a vessel, vehicle, country-craft and an aircraft. [Emigrations Act, 1983 (31 of 1983), s. 2(b)] The voluntary transfer of a right or of property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn. Conveyance, the statutory provision extends to

Copyhold

lord may seize the estate to his own use. The lord is also entitled to fines upon all voluntary grants, upon the admission of tenants by the curtesy, the free-bench, and indeed upon alienation generally, the only

Declaration in lieu of oath

justice of the peace, notary public, or other officer authorized to administer an oath, is empowered to take voluntary declarations in the form specified in the Act; and any person wilfully making such declaration false in any

Declaratory

of s. 84 in terms clarifies the meaning of the expression 'ceiling area' with reference to which certain voluntary transfers are to be invalidated, it is clearly retrospective as it is meant to invalidate the transfers made

Delectus person'

It is an established principle of the Common Law that, as a partnership can commence only by the voluntary contract of the parties, so, when it is once formed, no third person can be afterwards introduced into

Deputation

public interest to meet the exigencies of public service. The concept of deputation is consensual and involves a voluntary decision of the employer to lend the services of his employee and a corresponding acceptance of such services

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