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clear and present danger : a risk or threat to safety or other public interests that is serious and imminent ;esp : one that justifies limitation of a right (as freedom of speech or press) by the legislative or executive branch of government [a clear and present danger of harm to others or himself] see also freedom of speech, Schenck v. United States in the Important Cases section amendment i to the Constitution in the back matter ...
freedom of speech
freedom of speech :the right to express information, ideas, and opinions free of government restrictions based on content and subject only to reasonable limitations (as the power of the government to avoid a clear and present danger) esp. as guaranteed by the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution see also free speech compare censorship, prior restraint ...
Cruelty
Cruelty, it is contemplated as a conduct of such type which endangers the living of the petitioner with the respondent. Cruelty consists of acts which are dangerous to life, limb or health. Cruelty for the purpose of the Act means where one spouse has so treated the other and manifested such feelings towards her or him as to have inflicted bodily injury , or to have caused reasonable apprehension of bodily injury, suffering or to have injured health. Cruelty may be physical or mental. Mental cruelty is the conduct of other spouse which causes mental suffering or fear to the matrimonial life of the other, Savitri Pandey v. Prem Chandra Pandey, AIR 2002 SC 591 (595): (2002) 2 SCC 73. [Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, s. 13(1)(ia)]Harassment of the woman where such harassment is with a view to coercing her or any person related to her to meet any unlawful demand for any property or valuable security would also constitute cruelty, Shobha Rani v. Modhukar Reddi, (1988) 1 SCC 105: AIR 1988 SC 121 (...
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