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coercive

coercive 1 : serving or intended to coerce 2 : resulting from coercion [to protect women from intimacy "Kimberle Crenshaw"] ...


sanction

sanction 1 : a punitive or coercive measure or action that results from failure to comply with a law, rule, or order [a for contempt] 2 : explicit or official approval 3 : an economic or military coercive measure adopted usually by several nations in concert for forcing a nation violating international law to desist or yield to adjudication vt 1 : to give official approval or consent to : ratify 2 : to impose a sanction on [ed the lawyer for professional misconduct] ...


Coercitive

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Coercive

Serving or intended to coerce having power to constrain...


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 (...


Custody

Custody, The word is of elastic semantics but its core meaning is that the law has taken control of the person, Nianjan Singh v. Prabhakar Rajaram Kharote, (1980) 2 SCC 559: AIR 1980 SC 785 (787): (1980) 3 SCR 15. [Criminal Procedure Code (1974) s. 439]Means physical custody, Warner v. Metropolitan Police Commr., (1969) 2 AC 256: (1968) 2 All ER 356, HL Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 3(1), para 59, p. 55.Custody, he who under the control of the Court or is in the physical hold of an officer with coercive power, is in custody for the purpose of s. 439, Nirmaljeet Kaur v. State of Madhya Pradesh, (2004) 7 SCC 558.The word is of elastic semantics but its core meaning is that the law has taken control of the person. The expression 'custody' as used in s. 439 must be taken to be a compendious expression referring to the events on the happening of which the Magistrate can entertain a bail petition of an accused, Sunita Devi v. State of Bihar, (2005) 1 SCC 608 (613, 614). (Criminal Procedur...


Dean

Dean [fr. decanus, Lat.; deka, Gk., ten], an ecclesiastical governor or dignitary, so called as he is supposed to have originally presided over ten canons or prebendaries at the least. In cathedrals of the old foundation in England, the dean is the principal of the four chief dignitaries, exercising a general supervision over the other members of the capitular body, with special reference to the cure of souls. In cathedrals of the new foundation, the duties of the deans are defined by the statutes of each chapter.Considered in respect of the differences of office, deans are of six kinds:--(1) Deans of Chapters, who are either of cathedral or collegiate churches. (2) Deans of Peculiars, who have sometimes both jurisdiction and cure of souls, and sometimes jurisdiction only. (3) Rural Deans, deputies of the bishop, planted all round his diocese, the better to inspect the conduct of the parochial clergy, to inquire into and report dilapidations, and to examine the candidates for confirmat...


For the purpose of the business

For the purpose of the business, the expression 'for the purpose of the business' is essentially wider than the expression 'for the purpose of earning profits.' It covers not only the running of the business or its administration but also measures for the preservation of the business and protection of its assets and property. It may legitimately comprehend many other acts incidental to the carrying on of the business, CIT v. Birla Cotton SPG & WVG Mills Ltd., (1971) 3 SCC 344: AIR 1972 SC 19 (21). [Income-tax Act, 1922, s. 10(2) (xv)]For the purpose of the business, The expression 'for the purpose of the business' is wider in scope than the expression 'for the purpose of earning profits'. Its range is wide: it may take in not only the day to day running of a business but also the rationaliza-tion of its administration and modernization of its machinery; it may include measure for the preservation of the business and for the protection of its assets and property from expropriation, coer...


Obtained

Obtained, The word 'obtained' would indicate achievement by exertion in spite of opposition. Hence a dissolution of marriage obtained through the coercive process of civil court would be covered. The word 'obtained' may well be used in the sense of 'procured with effort and would certainly describe correctly a situation where something is achieved by a person through his exertion in spite of opposition from others. According to Webster, again, the word' obtain 'signifies: (a) to gain or attain possession or disposal of, usually by some planned action or method. (b) to bring about or call into being, etc., Mst. Zohara Khatoon v. Mohd. Ibrahim, AIR 1981 SC 1243 (1252): (1981) 2 SCC 509: (1981) 2 SCR 910. [Criminal PC, (2 of 1974), s. 125(1)]...


Rural Deans

Rural Deans, very ancient officers of the Church (almost grown out of use, until, about the middle of the last century, they were generally revived), whose deaneries are an ecclesiastical division of the diocese or archdeaconry. They are deputies of the bishop, planted all round his diocese, to inspect the conduct of the parochial clergy, to inquire into and report dilapidations, and to examine candidates for confirmation, armed in minuter matters with an inferior degree of judicial and coercive authority...


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