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Female line, referred. [Hindu Succession Act, 1956 (30 of 1956), s. 3(1) (h) (b)]...
Tarwad
Tarwad, expression 'tarvad' in Marumakkattayam law is the name given to the joint family consisting of males and females, all descended in the female line from a common ancestress, Kalyani v. Narayanan, AIR 1980 SC 1173 (1177): (1980) Supp SCC 298: (1980) 2 SCR 1130.A family governed by Marumakkathayam law is known as a tarwad, it consists of a mother and her children, whether male or female, and all their descendants, whether male or female, in the female line, Achuthan Nair v. Chinnammu Amma, AIR 1966 SC 411 (412): (1966) 1 SCR 454.Tarwad is the name given to a joint family consisting of males and females who have all descended in the family line from a common ancestress. Mayne compares a tarwad to a family corporation. Every member of tarwad has equal rights in the property by reason of his or her birth in the tarwad, M.K. Balakrishna Menon v. Assistant Controller of Estate Duty-cum-Income Tax Officer, AIR 1971 SC 2392 (2393): (1971) 2 SCC 909: (1972) 1 SCR 961....
Marumakkattayam law
Marumakkattayam law, means the system of law applicable to persons--(a) who, if this Act had not been passed, would have been governed by the Madras Marumakkattayam Act, 1932 (XXII of 1933); the Travancore Nayar Act (II of 1100); the Travancore Ezhava Act (III of 1100); the Travancore Nanjinad Vellala Act (VI of 1101); the Travancore Kshatriya Act (VII of 1108); the Travancore Krishnanvaka Marumakkathayee Act (VII of 1115); the Cochin Marumakkathayam Act (XXXIII of 1113); or the Cochin Nayar Act (XXIX of 1113), with respect to the matters for which provision is made in this Act; or(b) who belong to any community, the members of which are largely domiciled in the State of Travancore-Cochin or Madras as it existed immediately before the 1st November, 1956, and who, if this Act had not been passed, would have been governed with respect to the matters for which provision is made in this Act by any system of inheritance in which descent is traced through the female line; but does not includ...
Thavazhee, of a female
Thavazhee, of a female, means a group of persons consisting of that female and her issue how-low-so-over in the female line, or such of that group as are alive, Kunjippilla Anna v. Narayanan Nair, 1968 Ker LT 119: 1968 Ker LJ 786: 1968 Ker LR 89....
lineal
lineal : consisting of or being in a direct male or female line of ancestry [a descendant] compare collateral ...
matrilineal
tracing descent through the female line...
Man, Isle of
Man, Isle of (Mona), in the Irish Sea, off the coast of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire, granted by Henry the Fourth and James the First to members of the Stanley family, whose successor in the female line, the Duke of Athol, sold it to the Crown for 70,000l., being about ten years' purchase of the annual revenue, by the Isle of Man Purchase Act, 1765 (5 Geo. 3, c. 26).The Isle of Man is not subject to British Acts of Parliament unless expressly named therein (as in the Customs Acts, for the purposes of which, by s. 277 of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876, it is deemed part of the United Kingdom), being legislated for by its own Parliament, called the House of Keys, but an Isle of Man (Customs) Act, is passed every year by the Imperial Parliament....
Santan
Santan, is a Sanskrit expression whose ordinary meaning is 'progeny offspring, issue' which may be either male or female, Indramani Devi v. Raghunath, AIR 1961 Ori 9.Santan, no doubt, has a meaning issues, i.e. either male or female. But it also means a line. Vijnaneswarea himself interprets it as meaning a male line alone, Gajadhar Prasad v. Gauri Shankar, AIR 1932 All 417: (1932) 54 All 698 (FB)...
Peeress
Peeress. Women may acquire peerages by creation (as the Baroness Burdett Coutts), descent (as where a peerage goes in the female as well as in the male line, to which line it is usually confined), or marriage, but they have never had the legislative power, and it was decided in Viscountess Rhondda's Claim, (1922) 2 AC 339, that a peeress of the United Kingdom in her own right is not entitled to receive a writ of summons to Parliament by virtue of, the (English) Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act, 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 71). 20 Hen. 6, c. 9, declares that peeresses, either in their own right or by marriage, shall be tried before the same judicature as peers of the realm....
Gypsy moth
A tussock moth Lymantria dispar or Porthetria dispar or Ocneria dispar native of the Old World but accidentally introduced into eastern Massachusetts about 1869 where its caterpillars have done great damage to fruit shade and forest trees of many kinds The male gypsy moth is yellowish brown the female white and larger than the male In both sexes the wings are marked by dark lines and a dark lunule The caterpillars when full grown have a grayish mottled appearance with blue tubercles on the anterior and red tubercles on the posterior part of the body all giving rise to long yellow and black hairs They usually pupate in July and the moth appears in August The eggs are laid on tree trunks rocks etc and hatch in the spring...
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