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Material resources
means (as of a country or business): computable wealth (as in money, property). In Words and Phrases (Permanent Edition) Vol. 37-A, the word 'Resources' has been defined at page 16 thus: Resources included products of farm, forest,
Modesty
Kerala, (2004) 1 SCC 215 (221). [Penal Code, 1860, s. 354] According to Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (Third Edition) modesty is the quality of being modest and in relation to woman means 'womanly propriety of behaviour; scrupulous
Migrated
another whether or not with any intention of permanent residence in the latter place. In Webster's dictionary (Second Edition, 1937), the word 'migrate' means 'to go from one place to another; especially to move from one country,
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May be detained
Volume 1, page 531, the word 'detain' means 'to keep in confinement or custody'. Webster's Comprehensive Dictionary, International Edition, at page 349, gives the meaning as to hold in custody, Poonam Lata v. M.L. Wadhawan, AIR 1987
Maritagium
or guardian in chivalry had of disposing of his infant ward in matrimony, Spelm. See 1 Reeves (Finlason's Edition), 171.
Manufacturing purposes
by physical labour or mechanical power. (Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Vol. I, p. 1203). According to the Permanent Edition of Words and Phrases, Vol. 26, 'manufacture' implies a change but every change is not manufacture and yet
Pronounce
proclaim, to utter formally, to utter rhetorically, to declare, to utter, to articulate, Chambers 20th Century Dictionary, New Edition, p. 1030. The term 'pronounce' means to proclaim, to utter formally, to utter rhetorically, to declare to, utter,
Principle
Principle, a principle has been explained in Butterworth's words and phrases, second edition, vol. 4 p. 177 thus: A 'principle' means a general guiding rule, and does not include specific directions,
Vibhaktarahave
whole, by distributing them in particular portions of the aggregate', See para 448 of Mayne's Hindu Law, 11th Edition; Krishnabai Ganpatrao Deshmukh v. Appasahab Tuejiram Rao Nimbalkar, (1979) 4 SCC 60: AIR 1979 SC 1880 (1886).
Quasi-governmental agency
agency' is 'a government-sponsored enterprise or corporation (sometimes called a government-controlled corporation)'. Authority, as Websiter's Comprehensive Dictionary (International Edition) defines, is 'the person or persons in whom government or command is vested; often in the plural', Pradeep
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