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Farewell

Go well good by adieu originally applied to a person departing but by custom now applied both to those who depart and those who remain It is often separated by the pronoun as fare you well and is sometimes used as an expression of separation only as farewell the year farewell ye sweet groves that is I bid you farewell...


Stridhan

Stridhan, a Hindu married woman is absolute owner of her 'stridhan' property and can deal with it in any manner she likes-she may spend the whole of it or give it away at her own pleasure by gift or will without any reference to her husband. Ordinarily, the husband has no right or interest in it with the sole exception that in times of extreme distress, as in famine, illness or the like, the husband can utilise it but he is morally bound to restore it or its value when he is able to do so. This right is purely personal to the husband and the property so received by him in marriage cannot be proceeded against even in execution of a decree for debt, Pratibha Rani v. Suraj Kumar, AIR 1985 SC 628: (1985) 3 SCR 190: (1985) 2 SCC 370.Stridhan, are the properties gifted to a girl before the marriage, at the time of marriage or at the time of giving farewell or thereafter. It is her absolute property with all rights to dispose at her own pleasure. It does not become a joint property of the wif...


Congeacute

The act of taking leave parting ceremony farewell also dismissal...


Good by

Farewell a form of address used at parting See the last Note under By prep...


Priestly

Of or pertaining to a priest or the priesthood sacerdotal befitting or becoming a priest as the priestly office a priestly farewell...


Leave

Leave, having regard to the language of Rule 123 doubtless the word 'leave' has been used as a verb and not as a noun. Taking the word in its ordinary parlance if used as a verb it clearly connotes that the candidate should have given up the job or quitted the service or severed all connections with the post that he was holding. If the word 'leave' would have been used as a noun in the sense of obtaining leave or furlough then the concept of permission would undoubtedly have to be considered. In Black's Law Dictionary, Revised Fourth Edition at p. 1036 the author referring the case of Landreth v. Casey, 340 III 519; 173 NE 84 (85) observes as follows: 'Wilful departure with intent to remain away, and not temporary absence with intention of returning.' To the same effect is the definition of the word 'leave' when used as a verb in Webster's New International Dictionary at p. 1287 where it has been defined as meaning 'desert, abandon, forsake, to give up the practice, to quit service and...


Marga

Marga, 'The search for curative guidelines in such words as 'dangerous' and 'necessary', forgetting the totalitarian backdrop of stonewall and iron bars, is bidding farewell to raw reality and embracing verbal marga'|Sunil Batra v. Delhi Administration, AIR 1978 SC 1675 (1720), para 192]. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)...


Revocation and new appointment

Revocation and new appointment. The appoint or may reserve a power of revocation and new appointment in the deed of appointment, although not expressly authorized so to do by the assurance creating the power; and such a power may be reserved toties quoties. By a revocation the original power revives. When a deed of appointment contains no power of revocation it is absolute and cannot be revoked, although there be a power of revocation in the assurance creating the power. When a power is executed by will, an express power of revocation need not be reserved, since a will is always revocable. Consult Sugden or Farewell on Powers....


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