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Home Dictionary Name: contagious disease Page: 2Quarantine, or Quarentaine
Quarantine, or Quarentaine. 1. By Magna Carta, the widow shall not be distrained to marry afresh, if she choose to live without a husband, but she shall not, however, marry against the consent of the Lord; and nothing shall be taken for assignment of her dower, but she shall remain in her husband's capital mansion-house for forty days after his death, during which time her dower shall be assigned. These forty days are called the widow's quarantine. Marriage during these forty days forfeits the dower. This right was enforced by writ of Quarantina habenda. See 1 Steph. Com.2. A quantity of land containing forty perches, Leg. Hen. I., c. 16.3. A regulation by which communication with persons, ships, or goods arriving from places infected with the plague, or other contagious disease, or liable thereto, is interdicted for a certain period. The term is derived from the Italian quaranta, forty; it being supposed, that if no infectious disease break out within forty days or six weeks, no furth...
Slander
Slander, the malicious defamation of a person bywords; as a libel is by writing, etc. It is actionable in the following cases: (1) where the words impute a criminal offence; (2) where they impute misconduct in a public office; (3) where they are spoken in reference to a person's trade or profession, see Jones v. Jones, (1916) 2 AC 481; (4) where they impute a contagious disease likely to cause exclusion from society, e.g., venereal disease; (5) where the speaking of them is productive of special damage.The slander of a woman by imputation on her chastity was first made actionable without special damage by the Slander of Women Act, 1891; but under this Act no more costs than damages can be recovered unless the judge certifies there was reasonable ground for bringing the action.Slander of Title, a false and malicious statement, either oral or in writing, tending to cut down the title to some right or property vested in the plaintiff. It is not actionable without proof of special damage, ...
Pestilence
Specifically the disease known as the plague hence any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating...
Disinfectant and pesticide
Disinfectant and pesticide, 'disinfectant' is defined in webster Comprehensive Dictionary 'as a substance used to disinfect' or to destroy the germs of infectious and contagious diseases. In the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English, 'disinfectant' is defined as 'a commercially produced chemical liquid that destroys germs', pesticide' has been defined in Butterworths Medical Dictionary, Second Edition, as 'a comprehensive word to include substances that will kill any form of pest, e.g., insects, rodents and bacteria'. It includes a large variety of compounds of diverse chemical nature and biological activity grouped together usually on the basis of what pests they are used to destroy or eliminate, Bombay Chemical v. C.C.E. (P.) Ltd., 1995 Supp (2) SCC 646: AIR 1995 SC 1469 (1471). [Central Excise and Salt Act, 1944, s. 5A, Item 68]...
Prostitute
Prostitute, 'prostitute' means a female who offers her body for promiscuous sexual intercourse for hire, whether in money or in kind. State of U.P. v Kaushailiya, AIR 1964 SC 416: (1964) 4 SCR 1002.A woman who indiscriminately consorts with men for hire. Solicitation by prostitutes is punishable in towns by the (English) Town Police Clauses Act, 1847, s. 28 (in cases where the town is subject to a special Act incorporating that Act); in London by the Metropolitan Police Act, 1839, s. 54, and generally by the Vagrancy Act, 1824.A licensed retailer of intoxicating liquor permitting his premises to be the habitual resort of reputed prostitutes, whether their object be prostitution or not, is, if he allows them to remain longer than is necessary for the purpose of obtaining reasonable refreshment, liable to a penalty under the Licensing Act, 1910, s. 76.A man who lives on the earnings of prostitution may be dealt with as a 'rogue and a vagabond' by the (English) Vagrancy Act, 1898, amended...
Microzyme
A microoumlrganism which is supposed to act like a ferment in causing or propagating certain infectious or contagious diseases a pathogenic bacterial organism...
Sibbens
A contagious disease endemic in Scotland resembling the yaws It is marked by ulceration of the throat and nose and by pustules and soft fungous excrescences upon the surface of the body In the Orkneys the name is applied to the itch...
Farcy
A contagious disease of horses associated with painful ulcerating enlargements esp upon the head and limbs It is of the same nature as glanders and is often fatal Called also farcin and farcimen...
Diphtheria
A very dangerous contagious disease in which the air passages and especially the throat become coated with a false membrane produced by the solidification of an inflammatory exudation Cf Group...
Infectious disease
Any disease caused by the entrance growth and multiplication of microorganisms in the body a germ disease It may not be contagious...
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