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Month

Month [fr. monath, Sax., moon, which was formerly written mone, as month was written moneth]. The period in which that planet moneth, i.e., completeth its orbit.It is either--(1) Lunar, the time between the change and change, or the time in which the moon returns to the same point, being twenty-eight days.(2) Solar, that period in which the sun passes through one of the twelve signs of the zodiac.(3) Calendar, by which we reckon time, consisting unequally of thirty or thirty-one days, except February, which consists of twenty-eight, and in leap year of twenty nine days. The calendar month is also nine days. The calendar month is also called usual, natural, civil, political.In an Act of Parliament (English), passed after 1850, the word 'month,' which was formerly taken to mean a lunar month, unless calendar month was specified, means calendar month; unless words be added pointing to lunar months [(English) Interpretation Act, 1889 (s. 3), repealing and re-enacting 13 Vict. c. 21]. By th...


Consideration

Consideration. Any act of the promisee (the person claiming the benefit of an obligation) from which the promisor (the person burdened with the obligation) or a stranger derives a benefit or advantage, or any labour detriment or inconvenience sustained or suffered by the promisee at the request, express or implied, of the promisor. See Laythoarp v. Bryant, 3 Scott 250; 2 Wms. Saund 137 h; Currie v. Misa, (1875) LR 10 Exch 153.Consideration is one of the facts which the courts require as evidence of intention, (a) that a person intends his promise to be binding on him, or (b) that he intends to divest himself of a beneficial interest in property. In its widest sense consideration is the price, motive or inducement for a promise or for a transfer of property from one person to another. The nature or quality of the consideration which will be sufficient for these purposes varies with the nature of the transaction and in the absence of consideration the Courts will, except in the case of s...


Estoppel

Estoppel, a conclusive admission, which cannot be denied. It is of three kinds:-(1) By matter of record, which imports such absolute and incontrovertible verity, that no person against whom it is producible shall be permitted to aver against it. A record concludes the parties thereto, and their privies, whether in blood, in law, or by estate, upon the point adjudged, but not upon any matter collateral or adjudged by inference, A judgment in an action in rem is absolutely binding upon all the world.A conviction on the same facts is no estoppel in a civil action because the parties are not the same, Palace Shipping Co. v. Caine, 1907 AC 386.(2) By deed. No person can be allowed to dispute his own solemn deed, which is therefore conclusive against him, and those claiming under him, even as to the facts recited in it. The general rule is that an indenture estops all who are parties to it, while a deed-poll only estops the party who executesit, since it is his sole language and act, Shep. T...


Tenant

Tenant, embraces in itself, the heirs of the deceased called 'statutory tenants' as even after the determination of the tenancy continued to have an estate on the tenanted premises, which are heritable, Kasturi Lal v. Brimlal, 1986 Sim LJ 86.Tenant, includes a sub-tenant and self-cultivating lessee, but shall not include a present holder, Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887, ss. 5, 6, 7, 8; Punjab Settlement Manual, 1899, pp. 142.Tenant, is a word which standing by itself denotes in law 'one who holds lands by any kind of title whether for years or for life or in fee' and does not necessarily mean a lessee unless it is used in opposition to landlord, Ekambara Ayyar v. Meenatchi Ammal, 1904 ILR 27 Mad 401.Means a agriculturist who cultivates personally the land he holds on lease from the landlord and includes a person who is deemed to be a tenant, Racha Naika v. State of Karnataka, 1992 (3) Kant LJ 616.Means a person by whom its rent is payable, and on the tenant's death--(1) in the case of a resi...


Capital gains

Capital gains, capital gains would be covered by the definition of 'income' in sub-s. (6C) of s. 2, only if they were chargeable under s. 12B. As noticed already, s. 12B as modified by the Finance Act 1949, did not charge any 'capital gains' arising between April 1, 1948, and April 1, 1957. Indeed s. 12B was not operative in these years (1948-57). During this period, 'capital gains', whether on the positive or the negative side, could not be computed and charged under s. 12B or any other provisions of the Act, Commissioner of Income-Tax (Central), Delhi v. Harprasad & Co. (P.) Ltd., (1975) 3 SCR 696: AIR 1975 SC 1282: (1975) 3 SCC 868.The goodwill generated in a newly commenced business cannot be described as an 'asset' within the terms of s. 45, and therefore its transfer is not subject to income tax under the head 'Capital gains', CIT, Bangalore v. B.C. Srinivasa Setty (1981) 2 SCR 938: (1981) 2 SCC 460: AIR 1981 SC 972.The profit realised when a capital asset is sold or exchanged, B...


Imprisonment

Imprisonment, 'imprisonment' shall mean imprisonment of either description as defined in theIndian Penal Code. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3(27)]The restraint of a person's liberty under the custody of another. It extends in law to confinement not only in a gaol, but in a house, or stocks, or to hold-ing a man in the street, etc.; for in all these cases the person so restrained is said to be a prisoner, so long as he has not his liberty freely to go about his business as at other times, Co. Litt. 253. See FALSE IMPRISONMENT.Imprisonment for Crime.--Any common law mis-demeanour is punishable after conviction on indictment by fine or imprisonment or both, at the discretion of the court. Imprisonment for not more than two years is very frequently authorised, as an alternative to penal servitude, by the (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861, and other Acts set out in Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Criminal Law.' As to the right of any person convicted by a Court of Summ...


Publication

Publication, divulgation; proclamation; also 'the communication of defamatory words to some person or persons other than the person defamed' (Odgers on Libel).The publication of fair reports of legal proceedings in Court (other than ex parte proceedings) is a Common Law right exempt from proceedings for libel.As to the publication of an apology for libel in a newspaper, see LIBEL.Is essential in an action of defamation that the publication be to a third person, though the law is otherwise in Scotland. Thus, there can be no publication as between husband and wife, Wennhak v. Morgan, (1888) 20 QBD 635; but publication can be made to either husband or wife respecting the other, Jones v. Williams, (1888) 1 TLR 572. The third party to whom the matter is published may be in the position of a servant or clerk, Edmondson v. Birch & Co., (1907) 1 KB 371, but see Osborn v. Boulter & Son, (1930) 2 KB 226; but must be able to understand the defamatory character of the matter, Sadgrove v. Hole, (19...


Superfluous lands

Superfluous lands, lands acquired by a public company under the (English) Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 18), but not required for the purposes of the undertaking of the company. Such lands must, by ss. 127 and 128 of the Act, be sold within ten years after the time limited for the completion of the undertaking, the person entitled to the lands from which they were originally severed, or, if he refuse, the adjoining owners, having a right of pre-emption; and if the lands are not so sold, they vest in the adjoining owners.The town and (English) Country Planning Act, 1932, 3rd Sch., excepts the operation of ss. 127 to 132 of the L.C.C. Act, 1845, from purchases under the Act of 1932, and see Housing Act, 1936. The law of this subject has given rise to much litigation, the leading case being Great Western Railway Company v. May (1874) LR 7 HL 283. See also Dunhill v. N.E. Ry Co., (1896) 1 Ch 121; and A.G. v. Sunderland Corporation, (1930) 1 Ch 168....


Transfer

Transfer, a permanent alienation is a transfer and a permanent alienation includes the several kinds of transfers, namely, sale, exchange or gift, Syed Jalal v. Targopal Ram Reddy, AIR 1970 AP 19.Transfer, cannot have the widest comprehension, and does not indicate or include compulsory transfer or forced transfer, like court auction sale, Kharva Gigabhai Mavji v. Soni Jagjivvan Kanji, 1979 (20) Guj LR 256.Transfer, connotes, normally, between two living persons during life; will take effect after demise of the testator and transfer in that perspective becomes incongruous, State of West Bengal v. Kailash Chandra Kapur, (1997) 2 SCC 387.Transfer, Decrees which would have the effect of extinguishing the tittle of the holder and nesting the same in some one else though not falling within the ordinary meaning of the phrase 'transfer of property' would be 'transfers' within the meaning of the term as used in ss. 4 and 5, Jagdish v. State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1993 MP 132. [See M.P. Ceiling...


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