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Ouster
land or hereditament, and obliges him that has a right to seek his legal remedy in order to gain possession and damage for the injury sustained. Such dispossession may be either of the freehold or of chattels … Ouster, dispossession. A wrong or injury that may be sustained in respect of hereditaments, corporeal or incorporeal, carry-ing with it the deprivation
Income
Raja v. State of Madras, AIR 1967 SC 814: (1967) 1 SCR 950. It would not, however, be wrong to say that prima facie premium or salami is not income and it would be for the income-tax … Income, s. 4 of the Income-tax Act, defines the 'total income' to include all income, profits and gains from whatever source deprived. The definition of 'income' in Shaw Wallace & Co. case, 1932 (59) IA 206,
Fraud
the design of securing something by taking unfair advantage of another. It is a deception in order to gain by another's loss. It is a cheating intended to got an advantage, S.P. Chengalvaraya Naidu v. Jagannath, AIR … equally reprehensi-ble with positive fraud, and therefore equally prohibited. Thus, to prevent injustice and shut out inducement to wrong, certain transactions are held to be fradulent, as contrary to general policy, or to fixed legal principles; as
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conversion
or condemnation of the original property NOTE: For income tax purposes, involuntary conversions are generally taxable, and the gain or loss is computed by offsetting the basis of the property against the compensation received (as from insurance).
force
against a person or thing constructive force : the use of threats or intimidation for the purpose of gaining control over or preventing resistance from another dead·ly force : force that is intended to cause or that
Married women's property
or should be acquired by or devolve upon her after marriage, including any wages, earnings, money and property gained or acquired by her in any employment, trade, or occupation in which she was engaged, or which she
Law Reform (UK)
this Part of this Act; or (b) affect any criminal proceedings against any person in respect of any wrongful act; or (c) render enforceable any agreement for indemnity which would not have been enforceable if this section … omission which gives rise to the cause of action, shall be calculated without reference to any loss or gain to his estate consequent on his death, except that a sum in respect of funeral expenses may be
Hindu
regard other forms other forms other forms of worship, strange gods, and diver-gent doctrines as inadequate rather than wrong or objectionable, he tends to believe that the highest divine complement each other for the well-being of the … the Indus). The Persians pronounced this word Hindu and named their Aryan brethren Hindus. The Greeks, who probably gained their first ideas of India from the Persians, dropped the hard aspirate, and called the Hindus 'Indoi'. ('Hindulsm'
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