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Personal effects

tangible property as attends the person, Words and Phrases, Permanent Edn., Vol. 31, p. 277. In the unabridged edition of the Random House Dictionary of the English Language, at page 1075, the expression is given the following

Paper

abundantly along the Nile river in Egypt is explained in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (volume 2) (Third Edition) as: A substance composed of fibers interlaced into a compact web, made from linen and cotton rags, straw,

Held

3 SCR 411 [U.P. Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act (1 of 1951), s. 9] In the Unabridged Edition of The Random House Dictionary of the English Language, the word 'hold' has been inter alia stated to

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Family

SC 2148: (2001) 4 SCC 705. [Karnataka Land Reforms Act, 1961, s. 2(A)(12)] In Words and Phrases (Permanent Edition, Volume 16) at pages 303-11 the word 'family' has been defined thus: The father, the mother, and the

Gift

Trustee Act, 1925, s. 3; and (English) A.E. Act, 1925, ss. 41 and 42. BLACK'S Law DICTIONARY (Fourth Edition) defines gift thus: A voluntary transfer of personal property without consideration. A parting by owner with property without

Hindu

beliefs, faiths, practices and worship that it is difficult to define the term 'Hindu' with precision. In Unabridged Edition of Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, the term 'Hinduism 'has been defined as meaning

Manufacture

a new and different article must emerge having a distinctive name, character or use, Words and Phrases (Permanent Edition), Vol. 26. It is the process or activity which brings into being articles which are known in the

Novell'

of the Civil law which were made after the publication of the Theodosian code; but sometimes the Julian edition only is meant. Novell', or Novell' Constitutiones, from a part of the Corpus Juris. Most of them were

Dies festi, nefasti, et intercisi

(fari tria verba, do, dico, addico, Ovid, Fast. I. 45, etc. 'Varro, De Ling. Lat. vi. 29, 30, edit. Muller; Macrob., Sat. i. 16). On some of the dies fasti comitia could be held, but not on

Brehon Law

lewd custom crept in of later times. See 1 Bl. Com. 100; Edm. Spenser's State of Ireland, 1513, edit. Hughes; Hale's Hist. 217.

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