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Home Dictionary Name: break dancingbreak dancing
a type of solo dancing in which the dancer performs elaborate footwork pantomime and various acrobatic movements such as spinning head stands or spinning on the back and usually containing much improvization It was first performed by male teenagers in the 1970s in small informal groups on the streets and is often performed to the accompaniment of rap music or other rock music with a rapid strong beat...
Dancing hall
Dancing hall, 'dancing hall' as understood in the ordinary parlance is a place where dancing floor is provided and live orchestra or music in any other form is played to entertain the guests who wish to come on the floor and dance. Dancing halls are peculiar to the Western social life. In the cosmopolitan cities in this country, even today, one finds number of dancing halls and discotheques where people go in the evenings and entertain themselves. There seems to be no difference in a 'dancing hall' and a 'restaurant' where a proper dancing floor is provided and the guests entertain themselves by using the floor to the tune of live or recorded music. Simply because the recreation in the shape of dancing is provided along with a posheating place would not make it different than a 'dancing hall' where drinks and eatables are also invariably provided, Calcutta Municipal Corporation v. East India Hotels, AIR 1995 SC 419 (423): (1994) 5 SCC 690. [Calcutta Municipal Act, 1951 (33 of 1951), s....
Music and dancing licences
Music and dancing licences.--The grant of these in London and Westminster and within twenty miles thereof, including the administrative county of (English) Middlesex (Music and Dancing Licences (Middlesex) Act, 1894), is regulated by the (Eng-lish) Public Entertainment Act, 1751 (25 Geo. 2, c. 36), which enacted that any house kept for public dancing, music, or other public entertainment of the like kind, without a licence from justices, is to be deemed a disorderly house; see (English) Home Counties (Music and Dancing) Licensing Act, 1926 (16 & 17Geo. 5, c. 31); and by s. 3 of the Local Government Act, 1888, which transferred the licensing powers from justices to the London County Council. For Sunday entertainments, see (English) Sunday Entertainments Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 51).Various local Act in large towns (see Geary on the Law of Public Entertainments) regulate music-halls, etc., somewhat similarly; and the (English) Local Government Act, 1888, substitutes the county counc...
Ghost dance
A religious dance of the North American Indians participated in by both sexes and looked upon as a rite of invocation the purpose of which is through trance and vision to bring the dancer into communion with the unseen world and the spirits of departed friends The dance is the chief rite of the Ghost dance or Messiah religion which originated about 1890 in the doctrines of the Piute Wovoka the Indian Messiah who taught that the time was drawing near when the whole Indian race the dead with the living should be reunited to live a life of millennial happiness upon a regenerated earth The religion inculcates peace righteousness and work and holds that in good time without warlike intervention the oppressive white rule will be removed by the higher powers The religion spread through a majority of the western tribes of the United States only in the case of the Sioux owing to local causes leading to an outbreak...
break
break broke [brōk] bro·ken [brō-kən] break·ing [brā-ki] vt 1 a : violate transgress [ the law] b : to invalidate (a will) by a court proceeding 2 a : to open (another's real property) by force or without privilege (as consent) for entry often used in the phrase break and enter [one who s and enters a dwelling-house of another "W. R. LaFave and A. W. Scott, Jr."] b : to escape by force from [s prison or escapes or flees from justice "Colorado Revised Statutes"] 3 : to cause (a strike) to fail and discontinue by means (as force) other than bargaining vi : to escape with forceful effort often used with out [prisoners wounded while attempting to out] break in·to : to enter by force or without privilege [an officer may break into a building "Arizona Revised Statutes"] ...
Break
To strain apart to sever by fracture to divide with violence as to break a rope or chain to break a seal to break an axle to break rocks or coal to break a lock...
House breaking
House breaking, The crime of breaking into a dwelling or other secured building with intent to commit a felony inside, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 744. (Indian Penal Code, s. 445)See BREAKING-IN; and as to breaking in at night, see BURGLARY....
Without breaking bulk
Without breaking bulk, 'without breaking bulk' is not an expression defined in the Act or the rules. It has, therefore, to construed in its literal and ordinary sense to the extent possible, and construed as it is, in our opinion, transferring the product from the drums by breaking seal of the drums to bottles, cannot be said to be 'without breaking bulk, H.M.M. Ltd. v. Administrator, AIR 1990 SC 47 (51): (1989) 4 SCC 640: (1989) Supp 1 SCR 353. [City of Bangalore Municipal Corporation Act, 1969, s. 98(2)]...
Dancing
Dancing. See MUSIC AND DANCING LICENSES....
Breaking bulk
Breaking bulk, a term formerly used to signify the separation of goods in the hands of a bailee which made him liable for felony. Since the (English) Larceny Act, 1861, this distinction is immaterial, and remains so under the Larceny Act, 1916.The expression 'breaking bulk' is an expression not unknown to legal terminology especially in England. In the Cyclopedic Law Dictionary, 3rd edn. 'breaking bulk' has been stated to mean that for a bailee to open a box or packaging entrusted to his custody and fraudulently appropriate its contents, HMM Ltd. v. Administrator, Bangalore City Corporation, AIR 1990 SC 47: (1989) 4 SCC 640.Larceny by a bailee, esp. a carrier, who opens containers, removes item from them, and converts the items to personal use; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
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