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Destroy

Destroy, to destroy means to deprive of life, kill, wipe out or annihilate. In other words s. 29 bars anyone from completely, irreparably and irreversibly putting an end to wild life or to the habitat in a sanctuary, Essar Oil Ltd. v. Halar Utkarsh Samiti, AIR 2004 SC 1834 (1843). [Wild Life (Protection) Act]According to Oxford English Dictionary, means to undo-break into useless piece or reduce into useless from, consumer or dissolve any material, structure or object, Regina v. Murphy, (2003) 1 WLR 422....


Commerce destroyer

A very fast unarmored lightly armed vessel designed to capture or destroy merchant vessels of an enemy Not being intended to fight they may be improvised from fast passenger steamers...


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Destroyer

One who destroys ruins kills or desolates...


Self destroyer

One who destroys himself a suicide...


Consummation

Consummation, of tenancy by the curtesy is when a husband, upon his wife's death, becomes entitled to hold her lands in fee simple or fee tail, of which she was seised during the marriage, for his own life, provided he has had issue by her, capable of inheriting. His estate becomes initiate upon birth of a child.Consummation, (1) the completion of a thing; (2) the completion of a marriage between wedded persons by cohabitation.Consummation, defined in Black's Law Dictionary, 6th Edn., 'the completion of a thing; the completion of a marriage by cohabitation between spouses', Babu S/o Raveendran v. Babu S/o Bahuleyan, (2003) 7 SCC 37.Consumption, means every fact which it is necessary to establish to support a right or obtain a judgment, Sadanandan Bhadran v. Madhavan Sunil Kumar, (1998) 6 SCC 514.The word consumption in its primary sense means the act of consuming and in ordinary parlance means the use of an article in a way which destroys, wastes or uses up that article. But in some le...


Consumption and use

Consummation, of tenancy by the curtesy is when a husband, upon his wife's death, becomes entitled to hold her lands in fee simple or fee tail, of which she was seised during the marriage, for his own life, provided he has had issue by her, capable of inheriting. His estate becomes initiate upon birth of a child.Consummation, (1) the completion of a thing; (2) the completion of a marriage between wedded persons by cohabitation.Consummation, defined in Black's Law Dictionary, 6th Edn., 'the completion of a thing; the completion of a marriage by cohabitation between spouses', Babu S/o Raveendran v. Babu S/o Bahuleyan, (2003) 7 SCC 37.Consumption, means every fact which it is necessary to establish to support a right or obtain a judgment, Sadanandan Bhadran v. Madhavan Sunil Kumar, (1998) 6 SCC 514.The word consumption in its primary sense means the act of consuming and in ordinary parlance means the use of an article in a way which destroys, wastes or uses up that article. But in some le...


immune system

The complex of cells cellular processes and substances within and diffused throughout an organism which allow the organism to counteract or destroy noxious foreign substances introduced into the body destroy infectious agents such as bacteria and viruses destroy malignant cells and remove cellular debris thus protecting the organism against many of the potentially harmful external agents and internal events that could lead to sickness or death The system has numerous interacting components including circulating antibodies antibody producing cells white blood cells and lymphokines lymph tissue and lymph nodes and stem cells which may differentiate into other types of cell together with the thymus and spleen The system is responsible for the phenomenon of immunity3 See also immunoglobulin and antibody...


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]...


Fishery

Fishery, the right to take fish. Fisheries are either free, common, or several. A free fishery is the exclusive right of fishing in a public river, and is a royal franchise, Common of fishery, or common of piscary, is the right of fishing in another man's water. A several fishery is the exclusive right of fishing in another man's water, and he that has it, according to Blackstone, 'must also be the owner of the soil' (2 Bl. Com. 40). This position of Blackstone, however, has been questioned, and the distinction between the various kinds of fishery is not clear; see Hrg. Co. Litt. 122 a, n. 7; Holford v. Bailey, (1846) 8 QB 1000; 13 ib. 426; Marshall v. Ulleswater Steam navigation Co., (1863) 3 B&S 732; Chesterfield (Earl) v. Harris, (1908) 2 Ch 397; 1911 AC 623; Coulson and Forbes on the Law of Waters; Leake on Uses and Profits of Land. No right can exist in the public to fish in an inland non-tidal lake, O'Neil v. Johnston, (1909) 1 Ir R 237.The fishing rights of the lord of the manor...


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