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Custom and usage

and uniformly observed for a long time, has obtained the force of law among Hindus in any local area, tribe, community, group or family: Provided that the rule is certain and not unreasonable or opposed to public

Displaced person

means any person who, on account of civil disturbances or of the fear of such disturbances in any area now forming part of Bangladesh, has, after the 14th day of April, 1957 but before the 25th day

Electoral franchise

the last day of the qualifying period occupying as owner or tenant any land or premises in that area and (b) has during the whole of the qualifying period so occupied any land or premises in that

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Estate

Bl. Com. cc. vii.-xii. According to article 31-A(2)-- (a) the expression 'estate' shall, in relation to any local area, have the same meaning as that expression or its local equivalent has in the existing law relating to

Exported from

out of goods which had become part and parcel of the mass of the property of the local area and will not apply to goods in transit i.e. brought into the area for the purpose of being

Quadrature

The act of squaring the finding of a square having the same area as some given curvilinear figure as the quadrature of a circle the operation of finding an expression for

Boundaries

constituted a Commission to inquire into the best mode of so adjusting the boundaries of counties and other areas of local government as to arrange that no poor law union, municipal borough, sanitary district, or parish should

Law and order and public order

State of West Bengal, (1975) 4 SCC 143: AIR 1975 SC 609 (611). The true distinction between the areas of law and order and public order lies not merely in the nature or quality of the act,

Natural justice

secure justice or to put it negatively to prevent miscarriage of justice. These rules can operate only in areas not covered by any law validly made. In other words they supplant the rules of natural justice which

Pollution of offshore environment

life, hazards to human health, hindrance to marine activities, including fishing and other legitimate uses of the offshore areas and impairment of quality of sea water for use and reduction of ameni-ties. [The Offshore Areas Mineral (Development

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