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Lawful guardian

than the expression 'legal guardian'. That word would mean that wherever the relationship of a guardian and a ward is established by means which are lawful and legitimate that relationship is intended to be included, State v.

Landlord

not on his own account but on account of any other person, such as his principal or his ward, he is landlord, Swadesh Ranjan Sinha v. Haradeb Banerjee, AIR 1992 SC 1590 (1591). [West Bengal Premises Tenancy

H'rede rapto

H'rede rapto, a writ for the ravishment of the lord's ward, Reg. Brev. 163

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Retrospective law

Retrospective law, retrospective means looking backward; contemplating what is past; having reference to a statute or things existing before the Act in question. Retrospective law, according to the same dictionary, means a law which looks back-ward...

Uberrima fides

said to require uberrima fides are those entered into between persons in a particular relationship, as guardian and ward, solicitor and client, insurer and insured [as to which last, see London Assurance Co. v. Mansel, (1879) 11

Social backwardness

Social backwardness, in ascertaining social back-wardness of a class of citizens it may not be irrelevant to consider the caste of the group of citizens. Caste cannot however be made the sole or dominant test. Social...

Steward

Steward [seneschallus, Lat.], a ward or keeper; one appointed in the stead of another. See HIGH STEWARD. A union official who represents union

Swarf-money

Swarf-money, warth-money or guard-money, paid in lieu of the service of castle-ward. A payment made in lieu of service of maintaining a lord's castle, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1461.

Third party

scene already occupied by two in a definite relation to one another, as principal and agent, guardian and ward, solicitor and client. See AS AGAINST, AS BETWEEN. As to third-party insurance of motor vehicles; by the (English)

Trust

trustee and beneficiary but also that a bailor and bailee master and servant pledger and pledgee, guardian and ward and all other relations which postulate the existence of fiduciary relationship between the complainant and the accused, State

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