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Home Dictionary Name: compriseComprisal
The act of comprising or comprehending a compendium or epitome...
Comprise
Comprise, referred [Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 (3 of 1897), s. 1(2)]...
Nient comprise
Nient comprise (not contained), an exception taken to a petition, because the thing desired was not contained in the deed or proceeding upon which the petition was founded, Jac. Law Dict....
Includes
Includes, as (i) to have as contents or part of contents; be made up of or contain; (ii) to add as part of something else; put in as part of a set, group or a category (iii) to contain as a secondary or minor ingredient or element, (Collins Dictionary of English Language).Is used in an interpretation clause, it must be construed as comprehending not only such things as they signify according to their nature and import but also those thing which the interpretation clause declares that they shall include, Scientific Engg. House (P) Ltd. v. C.I.T., (1986) 1 SCC 11: 1986 SCC (Tax) 143.The word 'includes' has different meanings in different contexts. Standard Dictionaries assign more than one meaning to the word 'include'. Webster's Dictionary defines the word 'include' as synonymous with 'comprise' or 'contain'. The Illustrated Oxford Dictionary defines the word 'include' as (i) comprise or contain in as a part of a whole; (ii) treat or regard as so included. The Collins Dictionary of Engl...
Commercial assets
Commercial assets, of a building society comprise the society's class 1, class 2 and 3 assets. The aggregate of a society's class 1, class 2 and class 3 assets constitutes the total commercial assets of the society. Class 1 assets comprise class 1 advances secured on land in the United Kingdom or on land in the Isle of Man, the Channel Island or Gibraltar. Class 2 assets comprise class 2 advances secured on land in the United Kingdom or on land in the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands or Gibraltar. Class 3 assets comprise loons for mobile homes, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. (2), para 762, p. 464....
Pandect', or Digesta
Pandect', or Digesta. In the last month of the year AD 530, Justinian, by a constitution addressed to Tribonian, empowered him to name a commission for the purpose of forming a code out of the writings of those jurists who had enjoyed the Jus respondendi, or, as it is expressed by the emperor, 'antiquorum prudentium quibus auctoritatem conscribendarum interpretandarumque legum sacratissimi principes pr'buerunt.' The compilation, however, comprises extracts from some writers of the republican period, Const. Deo Auctore. Ten years were allowed for the completion of the work. The instructions of the emperor were, to select what was useful, to omit what was antiquated or superfluous, to avoid unnecessary repetitions, to get rid of contradictions, and to make such other changes as should produce out of the mass of ancient juristical writings a useful and complete body of law (jus Antiquum);--the work was to be named Digesta, a Latin term indicating an arrangement of materials; or Pandect', ...
Proximate security
Proximate security, 'proximate security' means protection provided from close quarters, during journey by road, rail, aircraft, watercraft or on foot or any other means of transport and shall include the places of functions, engagements, residence or halt and shall comprise ring round teams, isolation cordons, the sterile zone around, and the rostrum and access control to the person or members of his immediate family [Special Protection Group Act, 1988 (34 of 1988), s. 2(g)]Means protection provided from close quarters during journey by road, rail, aircraft, watercraft or on foot or any other means of transport, and shall include the place of functions, engagements, residence or halt and shall comprise ring round teams, isolation cordons, the sterile zone around and the rostrum and access control to the person or members of his immediate family. The mere fact that the protectee has to go to court as an undertrial, does not disentitle him to the proximate security, Commissioner of Polic...
fanciful marks
fanciful marks Comprise terms that have been invented for the sole purpose of functioning as a trademark or service mark. Such marks comprise words that are either unknown in the language (e.g., "Pepsi", "Kodak", "Exxon") or are completely out of common usage (e.g., "Flivver"). Source: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ...
Bryopsida
the class of plants comprising the true mosses having leafy rather than thalloid gametophytes it comprises the orders Andreaeales Bryales Dicranales Eubryales and Sphagnales...
VerbarHagiographa
The last of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament comprising Psalms Proverbs Job Canticles Ruth Lamentations Ecclesiastes Esther Daniel Ezra Nehemiah and Chronicles or that portion of the Old Testament not contained in the Law Tora and the Prophets Neviim it is also called in Hebrew the Ketuvim Together with the Tora and Neviim it comprises the Hebrew Bible which is called in Hebrew the Tanach a vocalization of the first letters of its three parts...
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