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  2. Shall and will - Wikipedia

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    Thus shall is used with the meaning of obligation, and will with the meaning of desire or intention. An illustration of the supposed contrast between shall and will (when the prescriptive rule is adhered to) appeared in the 19th century, [11] and has been repeated in the 20th century [12] and in the 21st: [13] I shall drown; no one will save me!

  3. Indian Contract Act, 1872 - Wikipedia

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    The Indian Contract Act, 1872 [1] prescribes the law relating to contracts in India and is the key regulating Indian contract law. Then the principles of English Common Law. It is applicable to all the states of India. It determines the circumstances in which promises made by the parties to a contract shall be legally binding.

  4. Will and testament - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 January 2025. Legal declaration where a person distributes property at death "Last Will" redirects here. For the film, see Last Will (film). This article possibly contains original research. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. Statements consisting only of ...

  5. Hindu Succession Act, 1956 - Wikipedia

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    However it has been provided that notwithstanding the religion of any person as mentioned above, the Act shall not apply to the members of any Scheduled Tribe within the meaning of clause (25) of Article 366 of the Constitution of India unless the Central Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, otherwise directs. Surajmani Stella ...

  6. Future tense - Wikipedia

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    Future meaning is supplied by the context, with the use of temporal adverbs such as "later", "next year", etc. Such adverbs (in particular words meaning "tomorrow" and "then") sometimes develop into grammaticalized future tense markers. (A tense used to refer specifically to occurrences taking place on the following day is called a crastinal ...

  7. Statutory interpretation - Wikipedia

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    This means that the plain meaning rule (and statutory interpretation as a whole) should only be applied when there is an ambiguity. Because the meaning of words can change over time, scholars and judges typically will recommend using a dictionary to define a term that was published or written around the time the statute was enacted. Technical ...

  8. Assignment (law) - Wikipedia

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    An assignment does not necessarily have to be made in writing; however, the assignment agreement must show an intent to transfer rights. The effect of a valid assignment is to extinguish privity (in other words, contractual relationship, including right to sue) between the assignor and the third-party obligor and create privity between the obligor and the assignee.

  9. Official scripts of India - Wikipedia

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    Being the official script for Hindi, Devanagari is officially used in the Union Government of India as well as several Indian states where Hindi is an official language, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, and the Indian union territories of Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Dadra and Nagar Haveli ...