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Metric system
Metric system, a system (adopted in every European country except our own and Russia) in numbering of coinage, weights, measures, etc., wherein the integer is divided into fractions of a tenth, hundredth, etc., and no others....
Minor
(1) (e)] It means a person who has not completed his or her age of eighteen years. [Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 (78 of 1956), s. 3 (c)] It means a person who has not completed
Misconduct
service may constitute misconduct, see Laws v. London Chronicle (Indicator Newspapers), (1959) 1 WLR 698. This view was adopted in Shardaprasad Onkarprasad Tiwari v. Divisional Superintendent, Central Railway, Nagpur Division, Nagpur, 61 Bom LR 1596 and Satubha
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Mother
does not include grandmother, (Mst.) Tabi v. Saudagar Singh, 1924 Lah 698. Reading s. 9 of the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 as a whole and specially in the context of sub-ss. (2), (3) and (4)
In the usual manner
In the usual manner means according to the habi-tual form of arbitration adopted in fact. It does not mean, in accordance with the Arbitration Act, Bright & Bros v. Gibson &
Munitions of war
part of any ship, submarine, aircraft, tank or similar engine, arms and ammunition, torpedo, or mine intended or adopted for use in war, and any other article, material or device, whether actual or proposed, intended for such
Incest
being held in camera (q.v.). Means sexual relations between family members or close relatives, including children related by adoption. Incest was not a crime under English common law but was punished as an ecclesiastical offense. Modern statutes
Defeasance (defeasance)
was determined by the first license granted [Dumpor's case, (1603) 1 Sm. L. C.], a defeazane was frequently adopted in order to revive the condition, and so virtually to limit the license to the particular assignment, but
In the interest of general public
and notifications concerning the wages, working conditions or the other amenities for the working class, the courts have adopted a liberal attitude and the interest of the workers has been protected notwithstanding the hardship that might be
Delectus person'
to Pothier, was the doctrine of the old French Law; and the modern code of France has expressly adopted it, in opposition to the Roman Law. Such also is the law of Scotland, Story on Partnership, 6.
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