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Slavery

Slavery, that civil relation in which one man has absolute power over the liberty of another. It cannot subsist in England.

Hindu

majority of the present population of the Indian Empire (p. 686). As Dr. Radhakrishnan has observed; 'The Hindu civilization is so called, since its original founders or earliest followers occupied the territory drained by the Sindhu (the

liability

from the date incurred or from a given date b : accountability and responsibility to another enforceable by civil remedies or criminal sanctions [ for injuries caused by their product] absolute liability : strict liability in this

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Court

AIR 2000 SC 485 (490). [Bihar Land Reforms Act (30 of 1950), s. 19] Court, means the principle civil court of original jurisdiction in a district and including the High Court in exercise of the ordinary original

heir

on English common law called also heir at law heir general legal heir compare issue b in the civil law of Louisiana : one who succeeds to the estate of a person by will or esp. by

District Court

District Court, means, in any area for which there is a city civil court, that court, and in any other area, the principal civil court of original jurisdiction, and includes any

Institutions

second, they are corporeal or incorporeal. The property in things is acquired either by Natural Law or by Civil Law. Title II. explains the second Division of Things, which are either corporeal or incorporeal: and here real

Jus

designated the pr'ses, Smith's Dict. of Antiq. All law jus) is distributed into two parts--Jus Gentium and Jus Civile--and the whole body of law peculiar to any state is its Jus Civile (Cic. De Orat. I. 44).

Nature

and animal life as distinct from man and his creations; a wild primitive state untouched by man or civilization, Bhavani Tea and Produce Co. Ltd. v. State of Kerala, (1991) 2 SCC 463 (481). [S. 18(1), prov.

Life

is likely to adversely affect reputation or livelihood of a person, some of the finer graces of human civilization which make life worth living would be jeopardised and the same can be put in jeopardy only by

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