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Stranger, means a person, not a party to an act, contract or title, A Dictionary of Law, Willium C. Anderson, 1889.

Means an outsider or foreigner, Webster American Dictionary, p. 144.

The word 'stranger', had to be understood not in terms of blood or marriage relationship with the family but as a person unconnected with it, unknown in character and antecedents to the executants of the Deed. The word 'stranger' in the text has, in our view, to be interpreted as that person who has no connection whatsoever with the families of the original executants i.e., the father and two sons, Vijaylakshmi v. B. Himantharaya Chetty, AIR 1996 SC 2146 (2149): (1996) 9 SCC 376.

1. One who is not party to a given transaction 2. One not standing toward another in some relation in plied in context, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1433.

Strangers, in the Parliament of India, the strangers are admitted during the sittings of the House to those portions of the House which are not exclusively reserved for members. The admission of strangers to these places is regulated by orders made by the Speaker, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha, 10th Edn., 2002, r. 386.