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administrator

the sole purpose of being responsible for the assets in an estate usually in some emergency (as a will contest) compare general administrator in this entry 2 : a person that administers ;esp often cap : the head

natural object

of the estate, and who may be so recognized in the absence of a will or in a will contest usually used in the phrase natural object of one's bounty [widows and children, who, as the natural objects

Judgment

liability. The right or liability is to be found out by the Court. The nature of the order will have to be examined in order to ascertation whether there has been a determination of any right or … defendant because he loses a valuable right to defend the suit and his remedy is confined only to contest the plaintiff's case on his own evidence without being given a chance to rebut that evidence. As such

Collusion

as a cloak to cover up the real state of affairs. When one party can dominate over the will of the other, it would not be a case of collusion but one of compulsion, V.S. Rahi v. … a concerted performance of a fabula disguised as a judicium - an unreal and fictitious pretence of a contest by confederates whose game is the same. As stated by Lord Selborne, L.C. in Boswell v. Coaks, (1894)

Way

3 Bulstrode 339, and EASEMENT. A highway can always be dedicated to the public, and as to what will constitute dedication, see Simpson v. A.-G., 1904 AC 476. By the (English) Rights of Way Act, 1932 (22 … done. The remedy is usually by action on the case for damages. A right of way is often contested inaction of trespass. The remedy or the want of repair of or obstruction to public highways is by

Burden of proof

the Evidence Act, the phrase 'burden of proving' is used in the sense of introducing such evidence as will overcome the presumption of the absence of circumstances bringing the case within exception, Gopal v. Crown, AIR 1950 … to prove an allegation before judgment can be given in its favour; it also means that on a contested issue one of the two contending parties has to introduce evidence, Narayan Bhagwantrao Gosavi v. Gopal Vinayak Gosavi,

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