U Dictionary
Under-lease
Under-lease, a grant by a lessee to another, called under-lessee, or under-tenant, or sub-lessee, or sub-tenant, of a part of his whole interest under the original lease, reserving to himself a reversion; it differs from an assignment, which conveys the lessee's whole interest, and passes to the assignee the right and liability to sue and be sued upon the covenants in the original lease.An under-lease for the whole term of the original lease amounts to an assignment, Beardman v. Wilson, (1868) LR 4 CP 57.Between the original lessor and an under-tenant there is neither privity of estate nor privity of contract, so that these parties cannot take advantage, the one against the other, of the covenants, either in law or in deed, which exist between the original lessor and lessee [Holford v. Hatch (1779) 1 Dougl 183; Johnson v. Wild, (1890) 44 Ch D 146]; but the lessor can distrain on the sub-lessee or take advantage of a condition of forfeiture, G.W. Ry. v. Smith, (1876) 2 Ch D 253. By s. 4...
Under-sheriff
Under-sheriff [sub viecomes, Lat.], the sheriff's deputy. See SHERIFF....
Under-tenant
Under-tenant. See UNDER-LEASE....
Under-tenure
Under-tenure, an under-tenure is not material whether the grant was a pre-settlement or a post-settlement one, but what is important is, in whom the reversionary interest rests. The reversionary interest may rest in the proprietor either because at the permanent settlement the inam was included in the assets of the zamindari or because he himself was the grantor of a permanent under-tenure, State of Madras v. Govindarjula Naidu, AIR 1966 SC 969 (972): (1966) 1 SCR 915. [T.N. Estates Land Act, 1908 (1 of 1908), s. 3(2) (e)]...
Unreserved
Unreserved, has to be applied to vacancies which do not fall within the reserved categories Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Ashok Kumar Sawhney v. Union of India, AIR 1982 SC 795: (1982) 1 SCC 497: (1982) UJ (SC) 148.The word 'unreserved' in R. 6(3) does not include the vacancies reserved for candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes who had joined the cadre through open competition, etc., Ashok Kumar Sawhney v. Union of India, (1982) 1 SCC 497: AIR 1982 SC 795 (796). [Released Emergency Commissioned Officers and Short Service Commissioned Officers (Reservation of Vacancies) Rules, 1971, R. 6(3)]...
Upon or on
Upon or on, may either mean before the act done to which it relates, or simultaneously with the act done, or after the act done, according as reason and good sense requires and after taking into consideration the context in which this word is used, R. v. Arkwright, 18 LJ QB 28....
Upon trust
Upon trust, means whenever property is transferred upon trust, no beneficial interest is taken by the transferee, though no trust be declared, Stroud's Judicial Dictionary....
use
use 1 a : an arrangement in which property is granted to another with the trust and confidence that the grantor or another is entitled to the beneficial enjoyment of it see also trust Statute of Uses in the Important Laws section NOTE: Uses originated in early English law and were the origin of the modern trust. Uses became popular in medieval England, where they were often secretly employed as a method of evading laws (as those prohibiting mortmain) and penalties (as attainder) and to defeat creditors. In response, the Statute of Uses was enacted in 1535. The purpose of the Statute was to execute the use, investing the legal ownership of the property in the cestui que use, or one entitled to the beneficial enjoyment, and abolishing the ownership of the grantee. The Statute did not have blanket application, however. Certain uses, particularly those in which the grantee was not merely a passive holder of the property, were not executed under the Statute. These uses were called trust...
Use
Use, connotes that the traveling or stationary vehicle at the time when it becames the subject-matters of a delictum was at the place where it is found in the course of its user in accordance with the permit granted to it, TV Moidu (in re:), AIR 1960 Mad 265.Use, in application of law is the profit or benefit of lands and tenement, or a trust and confidence reposed in a man for the holdings of lands, that he to whose use the trust is made shall take the profits thereof, Tomlins.Use, in relation to narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, means any kind of use except personal consumption. [Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (61 of 1985), s. 2 (xxviiia)]Meaning of the word 'use' in the Oxford Dictionary some of which are as follows: 'To make use of as a means or instrument; To employ for a profitable end;' Automotive Manufacturers (P) Ltd. v. Govern-ment of Andhra Pradesh, AIR 1972 SC 229 (231): (1972) 1 SCC 125: (1972) 2 SCR 593.1. The application or employment of s...
Use and consumption
Use and consumption, conversion of a commodity into a different commercial commodity by subject-ing it to some processing, is consumption within the meaning of the Explanation to Art. 286 no less than the final act of user when no distinct commodity is being brought into existence but what was brought into existence is being used up, Anwar Khan Mahboob Co. v. State of Bombay, AIR (1961) 1 SCR 709: 1961 SC 213 (217). (Constitution of India, Art. 286)...