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Balance sheet total

a company's financial year (1) where in the company's accounts format 1 of the Balance Sheet formats is adopted, the aggregate of the amounts shown in the Balance Sheet under the heading corresponding to items A to

Adjournment Motion

the agenda in order to take up some matter of urgent public importance. In case adjournment motion is adopted the House automatically stands adjourned in pursuance of the adoption of the motion. If the motion is negatived

Father

Father, 'father', in the case of any one whose personal law permits adoption, shall include an adoptive further. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3(20)]

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natural

from the usual course of events [a result of the accident] 3 a : begotten as distinguished from adopted b : being a relation by consanguinity as distinguished from adoption [ parents] 4 : illegitimate [a child]

estoppel

: equitable estoppel in this entry compare waiver equitable estoppel : an estoppel that prevents a person from adopting a new position that contradicts a previous position maintained by words, silence, or actions when allowing the new

filiate

acknowledge, legitimate NOTE: A child may be illegitimate but filiated. Both legitimation and acknowledgment filiate an illegitimate child. Adopted children are filiated by the adoption proceeding.

Forced labour

want and destitution. Any factor which deprives a person of a choice of alternatives and compels him to adopt one particular course of action may properly be regarded as 'force' and if labour or service is compelled

ratify

ratify -fied -fy·ing : to make valid or effective ;esp : to adopt or affirm (as the prior act or contract of an agent) by express or implied consent with the

reference

of referring ;specif : mention or citation of one document (as a statute) in another [a municipality may adopt by all or a part of this title "Alaska Statutes"] see also incorporate 2 : a referral esp.

detribalization

the act of causing tribal people to abandon their customs and adopt urban ways of living

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