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In the quaternion analysis a quantity that has magnitude but not direction distinguished from a vector which has both magnitude and direction...
Investigation
Investigation, s. 4(1) of the Code of Criminal Proce-dure, 1898 defines 'investigation' as to include all the proceedings under that Code for the collection of evidence conducted by the police officer or other persons other than a Magistrate in this behalf. Under the Code 'investigation consists generally of the following steps: (i) proceeding to the spot; (ii) ascertainment of the facts and circumstances of the case; (iii) discovery and arrest of the suspected offender; (iv) collection of evidence relating to the commission of the offence which may consist of (a) the examination of various persons (including the accused) and the reduction of their statements into writing, if the officer thinks fit, (b) the search of places of seizure of things considered necessary for the investigation and to be produced at the trial; and (v) formation of the opinion as to whether on the material collected there is a case to place the accused before a Magistrate for trial and if so taking the necessar...
Lien
Lien [answering to the tacita hypotheca of the Civil Law], a right in one man to retain that which is in his possession belonging to another, until certain demands of the person in possession are satisfied. It is neither a jus in re, nor a jus ad rem--i.e., it is not a right of property in the thing itself, or right of action to the thing itself.It is either particular, as a right to retain a thing for some charge or claim growing out of, or connected with, the identical thing; or general, as a right to retain a thing not only for such charges or claims, but also for a general balance of accounts between the parties in respect to other dealings of the like nature.General and particular liens may arise: (1) by an express contract; (2) by an implied contract, resulting from the usage of trade, or the manner of dealing between parties. General lines are not favoured in law, but some judicially recognized general lines are bankers', solicitors', factors', stockbrokers'. See Halsb. L.E., ti...
Pre-natal diagnostic test
Pre-natal diagnostic test, means ultrasonography or any test or analysis of amniotic fluid, chorionic villi, blood or any tissue of a pregnant woman conducted to detect genetic or metabolic disorders or chromosomal abnormalities or congenital anomalies or haemoglobinopathies or sex-linked disease. [Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Technique (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994 (57 of 1994), s. 2 (k)]...
Ratio decidendi
Ratio decidendi, is the rule deducible from the application of law of the facts and circumstances of a case which constitutes its ratio decidendi and not some conclusion based upon facts which may appear to be similar. One additional or different fact can make a world of difference between conclusions in two cases even when the same principles are applied in each case to similar facts, Regional Manager v. Pawan Kumar Dubey, AIR 1976 SC 1766: (1976) 3 SCC 334; Jahangir Khan v. State of Bihar, (1998) 1 Pat LJR 912 (Pat).Ratio decidendi, the ground of a judicial decision. The general reasons or principles of a judicial decision, as abstracted from any peculiarities of the case, are commonly styled, by writers on jurisprudence, the ratio decidendi, Austin's Jurisprudence, p. 648.Every decision contains three basic ingredients: (i) findings of material facts, direct and inferential. An inferential finding of facts is the inference which the Judge draws from the direct, or perceptible facts;...
Sample
Sample, a small quantity of a commodity exhibited at public or private sales as a specimen. Where goods are warehoused, certain small specified quantities may, by the regulations of the Custom House, be taken out as samples without payment of duty.On a sale of goods by sample, conditions are implied that the bulk shall correspond with the sample, that the buyer shall have a reasonable opportunity of comparing the bulk with the sample, and that the goods shall be freed from any defect, rendering them unmerchantable, which would not be apparent on reasonable examination of the sample, (English) Sale of Goods Act, 1893, s. 15.As to samples for the purpose of analysis, see Food and Drugs (Adulteration)Act, 1928 (English) (18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 31), and ADULTERATION.Means a sample of any article of food taken under the provisions of this Act or of any rules made thereunder. [Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954, s. 2(xiv)]...
Social backwardness
Social backwardness, in ascertaining social back-wardness of a class of citizens it may not be irrelevant to consider the caste of the group of citizens. Caste cannot however be made the sole or dominant test. Social backwardness is in the ultimate analysis the result of poverty to a large extent. Social backwardness which results from poverty is likely to be aggravated by considerations of their caste. This shows the relevance of both caste and poverty in determining factor of social backwardness of citizens. Poverty by itself is not the determining factor of social backwardness. Poverty is relevant in the context of social backwardness, Kumari K.S. Jayasree v. State of Kerala, AIR 1976 SC 2381 (2385): (1976) 3 SCC 730: (1977) 1 SCR 194....
Sovereignty
Sovereignty, means 'supremacy in respect of power, dominion or rank; supreme dominion authority or rule. Sovereignty is the right to govern. The term sovereignty as applied to states implies 'Supreme, absolute, uncontrollable power by which any state is governed, and which resides within itself, whether residing in a single individual or a number of individuals, or in the whole body of the people. Sovereignty according to its normal legal connotation is the supreme power which govern the body politic, or society which constitutes the state and the power is independent of the particular form of government whether monarchial, autocratic or democratic, Govindrao v. State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1982 SC 1201.Means the Supreme, absolute and uncontrollable power by which any independent state is governed; supreme political authority paramount control of the constitution and frame of government and its administration; the self-sufficient source of political power from which all specific politi...
Scandium
A rare metallic element of the boron group whose existence was predicted under the provisional name ekaboron by means of the periodic law and subsequently discovered by spectrum analysis in certain rare Scandinavian minerals euxenite and gadolinite It has not yet been isolated Symbol Sc Atomic weight 44...
Principiation
Analysis into primary or elemental parts...
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