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Ayurveda: The traditional system of medicine of India and the East. Based on diet, herbs, mind-body type, and purification therapies. Maharishi Ayurveda: The modern, scientific revival of complete Ayurveda, including balancing the deepest value of mind – consciousness, which is…
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The principles of law for determination of the question whether an endowment is public or private are fairly well-settled. This Court observed in Deoki Nandan v. Murlidhar, (1956) SCR 756 as follows:- “The distinction between a private and a public…
It is well settled that the basic difference between a tax and a fee is that a tax is a compulsory exaction of money by the State or a public authority for public purposes, and is not a payment for…
Whether the qualifications, the duties discharged by the surveyors and Amins are same and identical so as to treat the Amins at par with that of the surveyors? The Technical Rules and Instructions relating to survey work indicate that surveyors…
In the case of K.K. Modi v. K.N. Modi, (1998) 3 SCC 573, a Bench of this Court (of which one of us was a member) had the occasion to consider the essential ingredients of an arbitration clause. Among the…
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The distinction between resignation and voluntary retirement in the following terms: “22. … [quoting RBI v Cecil Dennis Solomon (2004) 9 SCC 461] In service jurisprudence, the expressions “superannuation”, “voluntary retirement”, “compulsory retirement” and “resignation” convey different connotations. Voluntary retirement…
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The International Court of Justice has no jurisdiction to try individuals accused of war crimes or crimes against humanity. As it is not a criminal court, it does not have a prosecutor able to initiate proceedings.
When a statute is passed for the purpose of enabling something to be done, and prescribed the way in which it is to be done, it may be either an absolute enactment or a directory enactment. The difference being that…
Mutts have generally sadavrats, i.e. arrangements for giving food and shelter to wayfarers and ascetics attached to them. They may have temples to which the public is allowed access. Such circumstances might indicate the public character of the institution. But it is not impossible to have a private mutt, where the endowment is not intended to confer benefit upon the public generally or even upon the member of a particular religious sect or order.
The concept of a private endowment or a private trust is unknown to English law where all trusts are public trusts of a purely charitable and religious nature. Thus, under the English law what is a public trust is only…
In determining the question it has to be kept in mind that the distinction between mere breach of contract and the offence of cheating is a fine one. It depends upon the intention of the accused at the time to…
Distinction between civil wrong and criminal wrong as has been succinctly held by this Court in Devendra v. State of U.P., (2009) 7 SCC 495, relevant part thereof is reproduced herein below: A distinction must be made between a civil…
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