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Corrective institution, means an institution, by whatever name called (being an institution established or licensed as such under s. 21), in which persons, who are in need of correction, maybe detained under this Act, and includes a shelter where undertrials may be kept in pursuance of this Act. [Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 (104 of 1956), s. 2 (b)]...
Correctional
Tending to or intended for correction used for correction as a correctional institution...
Protective home
Protective home, means an institution by whatever name called (being an institution established or licensed as such under s. 21), in which [persons], who are in need of care and protection, may be kept under this Act [and where appropriate technically qualified persons, equipment and other facilities have been provided], but does not include--(i) a shelter where [undertrials] may be kept in pursuance of this Act, or(ii) a corrective institution. [Immoral Traffic (Preven-tion) Act, 1956 (104 of 1956), s. 2 (g)]...
house of correction
house of correction :an institution where persons who have committed minor offenses and who are considered capable of reformation are confined compare house of detention, jail, lockup, penitentiary, prison ...
custody
custody [Latin custodia, from custod- custos guardian] : care or control exercised by a person or authority over something or someone: as a : supervision and control over property that usually includes liability for damage that may occur b : care and maintenance of a child that includes the right to direct the child's activities and make decisions regarding the child's upbringing compare visitation joint custody : custody of a child shared by divorced or separated parents who alternate physical custody of and share in decisions regarding the child called also shared custody phys·i·cal custody : custody that includes sharing a residence with a child shared custody : joint custody in this entry sole custody : custody of a child awarded to only one person and usually to a parent tem·po·rary custody : custody awarded until a final judgment in a matter (as a divorce) is made c : official restraint on freedom (as by arrest or imprisonment or by release on bai...
Institutions
Institutions. It was the object of Justinian to comprise in his Code and Digest, or Pandects, a complete body of law. But these works were not adapted to the purposes of elementary instruction, and the writings of the ancient jurists were no longer allowed to have any authority, except so far as they had been incorporated in the digest, Smith's Dict. of Antiq. It was therefore necessary to prepare an elementary treatise, and the Institutes were published a month before the Pandects, A.D. 533, and designed as an elementary introduction to legal study (legum cunabula). The work was divided into four books, subdivided into titles.The Institutes are the elements of the Roman Law, and were composed at the command of the Emperor Justinian, by Trebonian, Dorotheus, and The ophilus, who took them from the writings of the ancient lawyers, and chiefly from those of Gaius especially from his Institutes and his books called Aureorum (i.e., of important matters).The Institutes are divided into four...
Financial Institution
Financial Institution, means a banking company to which the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (10 of 1949) applies (including any bank or banking institution referred to in s. 51 of that Act); or any other financial institution which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in this behalf. [Income Tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), s. 80E(3)(b)]Means:(i) a public financial institution within the meaning of s. 4A of the Companies Act, 1956;(ii) such other institution as the Central Government may, having regard to its business activity and the area of its operation in India by notification, specify. [Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Financial Institutions Act, 1993 (51 of 1993), s. 2 (h)]Financial institution means:(i) a public financial institution within the meaning of s. 4A of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956);(ii) any institution specified by the Central Govern-ment under sub-clause (ii) of clause (h) of s. 2 of the Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Fina...
Correctness
The state or quality of being correct as the correctness of opinions or of manners correctness of taste correctness in writing or speaking the correctness of a text or copy...
House of correction
House of correction, a species of goal which does not fall under the sheriff's charge, but is governed by a keeper wholly independent of that offence.1. A reformatory 2. A place for the contaminant of furnace offenders or those who have committed crimes of cesser magnitude, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.Houses of Correction, fist established in the reign of Elizabeth, were originally designed for the penal confinement (after conviction) of paupers and vagrants refusing to work; but by 5 & 6 Wm. 4, c. 38, ss. 3, 4, reciting that great inconvenience and expense had been found to result from the practice of committing to the common goal where it happens to be remote from the place of trial, it is enacted that a justice of the peace, or coroner, may commit for safe custody to any house of correction situate near the place where the assizes or sessions are to be held; and that offenders sentenced in those courts may be committed, in execution of such sentence, to any house of correction f...
Super-institution
Super-institution, the institution of one in an office to which another has been previously instituted; as where A. is admitted and instituted to a benefice upon one title, and B. is admitted and instituted on the title or presentment of another, 2 Cro. 463.A church being full by institution, if a second institution is granted to the same church this is a super-institution; concerning which two things have been resolved:-(1) That the super-institution, as such, is properly triable in the spiritual Court; (2) that it is not triable there, in case induction has been given upon the first institution.The advantage of a super-institution is, that is enables the party who obtains it to try his title by ejectment, without putting him to his quare impedit; but many inconveniences thence following (e.g., the uncertainty to whom tithes shall be paid, and the like), this method has been discouraged, Mirehouse on Advowsons, 189....
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