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Modesty

Modesty, as 'womanly propriety of behaviour; scrupulous chastity of thought, speech and conduct; reserve or sense of shame proceeding from instinctive aversion to impure or coarse suggestions, Oxford English Dictionary (1993 Edn.); Raju Pandurang Mahale v....

Marumakkattayam law

Marumakkattayam law, means the system of law applicable to persons-- (a) who, if this Act had not been passed, would have been governed by the Madras Marumakkattayam Act, 1932 (XXII of 1933); the Travancore Nayar Act...

Manor

Manor [fr. manerium, Lat.; manoir, Fr., habitation, or manendo, of abiding there, because the lord usually resided there], an estate in fee-simple in a tract of land granted by the sovereign to a subject (usually of...

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Malice

Malice [fr. malitia, Lat.], a formed design of doing mischief to another, technically called malitia pr'cogitata, or malice prepense or aforethought. It is either express, as when one with a sedate and deliberate mind and formed...

Proceeds of terrorism

Proceeds of terrorism, means all kinds of properties which have been derived or obtained from commission of any terrorist act or have been acquired through funds traceable to a terrorist act, irrespective of person in whose...

Preamble

Preamble, in the British Parliament, a Preamble is not often incorporated now in a public Bill, however, it appears in a Bill of great Constitutional importance or in a Bill to give effect to international conventions,...

Super-institution

Super-institution, the institution of one in an office to which another has been previously instituted; as where A. is admitted and instituted to a benefice upon one title, and B. is admitted and instituted on the...

Purchaser

Purchaser, a buyer, a vendee; also the root of descent, from whom, under the (English) Inheritance Act, 1833, the descent was in every case to be traced, before 1926, and now, as to a limitation to...

Rent

Rent [fr. reditus Lat.], a certain profit issuing yearly out of lands and tenements corporeal; it may be regarded as of a two fold nature--first, as some-thing issuing out of the land, as a compensation for...

Service

Service [fr. servitium, Lat.], that duty which a tenant, by reason of his estate, owes to his lord. There are many divisions of this duty in our ancient law books, as into personal and real, which...

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