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Banquet

A feast a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking often a complimentary or ceremonious feast followed by speeches

Mahr (dower)

Mahr (dower), Mahr (dower) is neither dowry nor price for marriage: As explained in an old judgment by Justice Syed Mahmood, maher is 'not the exchange or consideration given by the man to the woman, but...

Uses

Uses (History). A use is the intention or purpose, express or implied, upon which property is to be held. The Common Law treated the actual possessor for all purposes as the owner of the property. It...

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Solemnise

Solemnise, the word 'solemnize' means, in connec-tion with a marriage, to celebrate the marriage with proper ceremonies and in due form (Shorter Oxford Dictionary). It follows that unless the marriage is celebrated or performed with

Public Worship Regulation Act, 1874

of Common Prayer relating to the performance in such church or burial ground of the services, rites, and ceremonies ordered by the said book, or has made or permitted to be made any unlawful addition to, alteration

Sanyasi

he has actually relinquished and abandoned all wordly possessions and relinquished all desire for them or that such ceremonies are performed which indicate the severance of his natural family and his secular life. It must also be

Institutions

Ambedkar University Act, 1994 (58 of 1994), s. 2(l)] Used in several senses: e.g. (1) Laws, rites, and ceremonies enjoined by authority, as permanent rules of conduct or of government. (2) A commit-ment of the cure of

Punctilio

A nice point of exactness in conduct ceremony or proceeding particularity or exactness in forms as the punctilios of a public ceremony

Potlatch

Among the Kwakiutl Chimmesyan and other Indians of the northwestern coast of North America a ceremonial distribution by a man of gifts to his own and neighboring tribesmen often formerly to his own impoverishment

Glorification

Glorification, in relation to sati, whether such sati was committed before or after the commencement of this Act, includes, among other things,-- (i) the observance of any ceremony the taking out of a procession in connection...

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