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Feodary, or feudary

Feodary, or feudary, an officer of the Court of Wards, appointed by the master of that Court, under 32 Hen. 8, s. 26, whose business it was to

fiduciary relationship

trustees and beneficiaries, corporate directors or officers and stockholders, receivers or trustees in bankruptcy and creditors, guardians and wards, and confidential advisors and those advised.

the rights of persons having special relations with one another (such as parents and children or guardians and wards) or having limited rights (such as aliens or incompetent persons), Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 866.

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London

which is not subject to the Municipal Corporations Act, contains only 671 acres and is divided into twenty-six wards, over each of which there is an alderman, and is governed by a lord mayor, who is chosen

Magna Carta

the vigorous administration of Cornwell to abolish this military tenure, which he did by intermitting the Court of Wards in 1645. So perfectly hopeless was the renewal of this oppressive system at the restoration of the second

Minor

of the Indian Majority Act, 1875, is to be deemed not to have attained his majority. [Guardians and Wards Act, 1890 (8 of 1890), s. 4 (1)] It means any person subject to the Indian majority Act,1875

Modification of rights

the right of management of estate for a time, definite or indefinite, Thakur Raghbir Singh v. Court of Wards, AIR 1953 SC 373 (375): (1953) SCR 1049. (Constitution of India, Art. 31A)

Nuncupative Will

upon oral evidence, being declared by the testator in extremis before a sufficient number of witnesses and after wards reduced to writing, 2 Bl. Com. 500. The (English) Statute of Frauds, 29, Car. 2, c. 3, restricted

Owner

under-taking. [Monopolies and restrictive Trade Practices Act, 1969 (54 of 1969), s. 2 (ja)] Includes a Court of Wards in respect of property under the superintendence or charge of such Court. [Indian Forest Act, 1927 (16 of

Terms for years

LEASE), and the appropriate operative verbs therein are 'demise,' or 'grant, lease, and to farm let'; but any wards showing the intent of the parties that the one (the lessor) shall divest himself of the possession, and

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