Battering Train - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: battering trainBattering train
A train of artillery for siege operations...
battered woman's syndrome
battered woman's syndrome : the psychological symptoms suffered by a woman repeatedly abused by a mate (as a husband) NOTE: Battered woman's syndrome is used as a defense to violent criminal charges (as homicide). Evidence of repeated abuse is used to show that the defendant acted in self-defense even though the threat or danger was not imminent. Battered woman's syndrome is also used as a mitigating factor in sentencing. ...
Battered Woman's syndrome
Battered Woman's syndrome, means the psycho-logical symptoms buffered by a woman repeatedly abused by a mate (as a husband), Battered Woman's syndrome is used as defense to violent criminal charges (as homicide). Evidence of repeated abuse is used to show that the defendant acted in self-defence even though the threat or danger was not imminent; Battered Woman's syndrome is also used as a mitigating factor in sentencing, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 46....
battered child syndrome
battered child syndrome : the combination of grave physical injuries (as broken bones and bruises) that results from gross child abuse NOTE: Evidence of battered child syndrome is often used to establish that a child's death was not accidental. ...
Post-graduate training
Post-graduate training, the expression 'post-gradu-ate training' is used in Rule 49(c) in the sense of training received by a person holding a degree in medicine or science and not in the sense that such training ought to be received in or through a post-graduate institution imparting instruction or education in the particular discipline. The object of Clause (c) is to ensure that to be eligible for the post of a Drugs Inspector the person concerned must have received training under any of the authorities mentioned therein after graduation in medicine or science. Pre-graduation training is often not as efficacious as post-graduate training, for a person holding a higher educational qualification is in a better position to imbibe the training which he received, Maheshwar Prasad Srivastava v. Suresh Singh, AIR 1976 SC 1014 (1406): (1977) 1 SCC 627. [Drugs and Cosmetic Rules, 1945, Rules 49(c) and 44(a)]...
Cheap trains
Cheap trains. Early in the history of railways the companies were compelled by the (English) Railway Regulation Act, 1844 (7 & 8 Vict. c. 85), sometimes called the Cheap Train Act, to run one train a day at a penny a mile fare; in respect of which trains (ss. 6, 7) termed 'parliamentary trains,' or 'Government trains,' the companies were exempt from the passenger duty otherwise charge-able. Disputes arising between the companies and the Government as to the extent of this exemption, the (English) Cheap Trains Act, 1883 (46 & 47 Vict. c. 34), abolished the duty altogether on all fares not exceeding one penny per mile and empowered he board of Trade to require any company to provide proper accommodation at such fares, and also reasonable accommodation for workmen going to and returning from their work. See Browne or Thebald on Railways....
battered
In deplorable condition as the battered old Ford station wagon...
Batterer
One who or that which batters...
Express train
Formerly a railroad train run expressly for the occasion a special train now a train run at express or special speed and making few stops...
Vocational education and training
Vocational education and training, means a systematic course of instruction and training in the field of engineering, technology, agriculture, dairy and poultry, paramedical, social science, applied acts and crafts or such other subject as the State Government, in consultation with the Council, may, by notification, declare. [West Bengal State Council of Vocational Education and Training Act, 2005, s. 2(k)]...
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