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The expression ‘vest’ means to give an immediate, fixed right of present or future enjoyment; to accrue to; to be fixed; to take effect; to clothe with possession; to deliver full possession of land or of an estate. In Stroud’s Judicial Dictionary, 4th Edn, the word ‘vested’ has been defined in several senses – it is stated: “as to interest acquired by public bodies, created for a particular purpose, in works such as embankments which are ‘vested’ in them by statute......generally means to give the property in.” 

Government of Bangladesh and Others Vs. Md. Gias Uddin Chowdhury and Others, 2011, 40 CLC (AD) [5422] ) 

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