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Adolescence, the period from 12 in females and 14 in males till 18 years of age....
Adolescent
Adolescent, means a person who has completed his fourteenth year of age but has not completed his eighteenth year. [Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (11 of 1948), s. 2 (a)]--means a person who has completed his fifteenth year but has not completed his eighteenth year. Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961 (27 of 1961), s. 2(a).--means a person who has completed his fifteenth year of age but has not completed his eighteenth year. S. 2(b), Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948).--means a person who has completed his fifteenth year but has not completed his eighteenth year.S. 2(a), Plantations Labour Act, 1951 (69 of 1951)....
bobbysoxer
an adolescent girl wearing bobby socks common in the 1940s sometimes used for any adolescent girl especially one following the latest youthful fashion...
Obscene
Obscene, means if there be no abstract definition ........ Should not the word 'obscene' be allowed to indicate the present critical point in the compromise between candor and shame at which the community may have arrived here and now, United States v. Kennerley, 209 F 119 (121) (S.D.N.Y. 1913).Obscene, the Indian Penal Code borrowed the word from the English Statute. The Common law offence of obscenity was established in England three hundred years ago when Sir Charles Sedley exposed his person to the public gaze on the balcony of a tavern. Obscenity in books, however, was punishable only before the spiritual courts because it was so held down to 1708 in which year Queen v. Read, 11 Mod 205 QB, was decided, In 1727 in the case against one Curl it was ruled for the first time that it was a Common Law offence, Ranjit D. Udeshi v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1965 SC 881 (887): (1965) 1 SCR 65. (Indian Penal Code, s. 292)The concept of obscenity would differ from country to country dependin...
Young person
Young person. In the (English) Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (23 Geo. 5, c. 12), this expression (s. 107) ' means a person who has attained the age of fourteen years and is under seventeen years.'A young person within the (English) Merchant Shipping (International Labour Conventions) Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 42), is a person who is under the age of eighteen years (s. 5). See CHILD-REN.Means a person under the age of twenty years. [Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act, 1956 (93 of 1956), s. 2 (c)]Means a person who has completed fourteen years of age but has not completed eighteen years of age. [Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employ-ment) Act, 1966 (32 of 1966), s. 2(q)]Means a person who is either a child or an adolescent. [Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948), s. 2(d)]Means a person who is either a child or an adolescent. [Plantations Labour Act, 1951 (69 of 1951), s. 3(J)]...
escent
A suffix signifying beginning beginning to be as adolescent effervescent etc...
in between
being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series or time sequence as adolescence is an awkward in between age...
Youthful offender
Youthful offender, A person in late adolescence or early adulthood who has been convicted of a crime, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1108....
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