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Contradistinctive
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Contradistinction
Distinction by contrast
Contradistinct
Distinguished by opposite qualities
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Pension
a provident fund. [Constitution of India, Article 366(17)] Includes gratuity except when the term 'pension' is used in contradistinction to gratuity, Jarnail Singh v. Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, AIR 1994 SC 1484: (1993) SCC (L&S) 119:
Gavelkind
'rent' or a 'customary performance of husbandry works'; accordingly the land which yielded this kind of service, in contradistinction to knight-service land, was called 'GAVELKIND' that is 'land of the kind that yields rent.' Lambarde (Perambulations of
Hinduism
terms of Polytheism or Henotheism or Monotheism. The nature of Hindu religion ultimately is Monism/Advaita. This is in contradistinction to Monotheism which means only one God to the exclusion of all others. Polytheism is a belief of
Imprisonment for life and Imprisonment for a term
term, in fact, the two expressions imprisonment for life, and 'imprisonment for a term' have been used in contradistinction with each other, in one and the same section, where the former, must mean imprisonment, for the remainder
Khas possession
is qualified by the adjective 'khas possession' its equivalent being 'actual possession' as the word is understood in contradistinction to the word 'constructive posses-sion', Ramesh Bejoy Sharma v. Pashupati Rai, AIR 1979 SC 1769 (1776): (1979) 4
Knights of the Shire
Knights of the Shire, the old title of members of Parliament representing counties or shires, in contradistinction to burgesses, who represent boroughs, so called because it was necessary that they should be knights.
Law
(English) is also sometimes used as opposed to equity, meaning the principles followed in Common Law Courts in contradistinction to those which were administered only in courts of equity: now, however, in all branches of the Supreme
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