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Access, approach, or the means of approaching. The presumption of a child's legitimacy is rebutted, if it be shown by strong, distinct, satisfactory, and conclusive evidence, see Atchley v. Sprigg, (1864) 33 LJ Ch 345, that the husband-whether before or after marriage-had not access to his wife within such a period of time before the birth, as admits of his having been the father. 'If a husband have access, although others, at the same time, are carrying on a criminal intimacy with his wife, a child born under such circumstances is still legitimate': per Alderson, J., in Cope v. Cope, (1833) 5 C&P 604. Neither husband nor wife is admissible as a witness to prove non-access, Goodright v. Moss, (1777) 2 Cowp p. 594. See also Poulett Peerage Case, 1903 AC 395, and Russell v. Russell, 1924 AC 687 see PATERNITY.An owner of land adjoining a highway has a right of access to it where the land adjoins for any kind of traffic required for the reasonable enjoyment of his property, Lyon v. Fishmon...
Access and 'non-access'
Access and 'non-access', 'Access' and 'Non-access' mean the existence or non-existence of opportunities for sexual intercourse; it does not mean actual cohabitation, Gautam Kundu v. State of West Bengal, AIR 1993 SC 2295 (2301): (1993) 3 SCC 418. (Evidence Act, 1872, s. 112)...
Access and non-access
Access and non-access, Access and non-access again connote, as has been held by the Privy Council (Vide Karapaya v. Mayandy, 12 Rang 243), existence and non-existence of opportunities for material intercourse, Chilukuri Venkateswarlu v. Chilukuri Venkatanarayana, (1954) 1 SCR 424....
Accession
Accession [fr. accedo, Lat.], addition, arriving at, the commencement of a sovereign's reign; also the absolute or conditional acceptance by a nation of a treaty already concluded between other countries. The accession of a sovereign takes place immediately upon the death of the preceding monarch. See BILL OF RIGHTS.Accession, means property by. The doctrine of property arising from accession is grounded on the right of occupancy, and derived from the Roman Law; thus if any given corporeal substance receive an accession, either by natural or artificial means, as by the growth of vegetables, the pregnancy of animals, the embroidering of cloth, or the conversion of wood or metal into utensils, the original owner of the thing was entitled by his right of possession to the property of it under its improved state; but if the thing itself by such operation was changed into a different species, as by making wine, oil, or bread out of another's grapes, olives, or wheat (specificatio, Lat.), it...
Non-access
Non-access. When a husband could not, in the course of nature, by reason of his absence, have been the father of his wife's child, the child is a bastard.Access is presumed during wedlock; but this presumption may be countered by proof of circumstances showing that sexual intercourse did not take place within such a time that the husband could be the father. As to what is such a time, see GESTATION. As to the admissibility of evidence by husband or wife of non-access, see ACCESS....
access
access often attrib 1 : permission, liberty, or ability to enter, approach, communicate with, or pass to and from a place, thing, or person [public to federal land] [ to the courts] 2 : opportunity for sexual intercourse 3 : a landowner's legal right to pass from his or her land to a highway and to return without being obstructed 4 : freedom or ability to obtain, make use of, or participate in something [the right to equal treatment holds with respect to a limited set of interests — like voting — and demands that every person have the same to these interests "L. H. Tribe"] 5 a : a way by which a thing or place may be approached or reached b : passage to and from a place [provide a means of to the land] 6 : opportunity to view or copy a copyrighted work ...
accession
accession 1 : increase by something added ;specif : the mode of acquiring property by which the owner of property (as a building, land, or cattle) becomes the owner of an addition by growth, improvement, increase, or labor 2 : the act of assenting or agreeing ...
Accessible
Accessible, means within physical reach without the use of any appliance or special effort. [Indian Electricity Rules, 1956, R. 2 (1) (a)]...
Accession Declaration Act, 1910 (English)
Accession Declaration Act, 1910 (English), See BILL OF RIGHTS....
Open access
Open access, means the non-discriminatory pro-vision for the use of transmission lines or distribu-tion system or associated facilities with such lines or system by any licensee or consumer or a person engaged in generation in accordance with the regulations specified by the Appropriate Com-mission. [Electricity Act, 2003 (36 of 2003), s. 2(47)]Means confinement within the precincts of any barracks, lines or camp for the time being occupied by any part of the Force. [Central Reserve Police Force Act, 1949, s. 2(e)]...
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