Eat - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: eatMoth eat
To eat or prey upon as a moth eats a garment...
Plant eating
Eating or subsisting on plants as a plant eating beetle...
Eating house
Eating house, 'eating house' means any place to which the public are admitted and where any kind of food or drink is supplied for consumption on the premises by any person owning, or having any interest in, or managing, such place and includes,-(i) a refreshment room, boarding house or coffee house, or(ii) a shop where any kind of food or drink is supplied to the public for consumption in or near such shop, but does not include a place of public entertainment. [Delhi Police Act, 1978 (34 of 1978), s. 2(h)]...
Eat
To chew and swallow as food to devour said especially of food not liquid as to eat bread...
Eat inde sine die
Eat inde sine die, words used on the acquittal of a defendant, 'that he may go thence without a day,' i.e., be dismissed without any further trial or adjournment....
Cutworm
A caterpillar which at night eats off young plants of cabbage corn etc usually at the ground Some kinds ascend fruit trees and eat off the flower buds During the day they conceal themselves in the earth The common cutworms are the larvaelig of various species of Agrotis and related genera of noctuid moths...
Geophagism
The act or habit of eating earth See Dirt eating under Dirt...
Gluttonize
To eat to excess to eat voraciously to gormandize...
Residence
Residence, is a concept that may also be transitory. Even when qualified by the word 'ordinarily' the word 'resident' would not result in construction having the effect of a particular place for dwelling always or on permanent uninterrupted basis. Thus understood, even the requirement of a person being 'ordinarily resident' at a particular place is incapable of ensuring nexus between him and the place in question, Kuldip Nayar v. Union of India, AIR 2006 SC 3127.Residence, is flexible and must be construed accord-ing to the object and intent of the particular legislation where it may be found. It must be something more than occupation during occasional usual visits within the local limits of the court, more specially where there is residence outside those limits marked with a considerable measure of continuance, Paster J.S. Singh v. Jyotsana Singh, AIR 1982 MP 122 [See Divorce Act, 1869, s. 3(3)]Residence, is generally understood as referring to a person in connection with the place wh...
Banquet
A feast a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking often a complimentary or ceremonious feast followed by speeches...
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