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Marriage Officer
Marriage Officer, an officer who can celebrate marriage in foreign countries and British Possessions under the Foreign Marriages Act, 1892.It means a person appointed under s. 3 to be a Marriage Officer. [Foreign Marriage Act, 1969 (33 of 1969), s. 2 (d)] For the purposes of this act, the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint one or more Marriage Officers for the whole or any part of the State [Special Marriage Act, 1954, s. 3(1)]...
Hindu
Hindu, The historical and etymological genesis of the word 'Hindu' has given rise to a controversy amongst ideologists; but the view generally accepted by scholars appears to be that the word 'Hindu' is derived from the river Sindhu otherwise known as Indus which flows from the Punjab. 'That part of the great Aryan race', says Monier Williams, 'which immigrated from Central Asia, through the mountain passes into India, settled first in the districts near the river Sindhu (now called the Indus). The Persians pronounced this word Hindu and named their Aryan brethren Hindus. The Greeks, who probably gained their first ideas of India from the Persians, dropped the hard aspirate, and called the Hindus 'Indoi'. ('Hindulsm' by Monler Williams, p.1.)'. The Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. VI, has described 'Hinduism' as the title applied to that form of religion which prevails among the vast majority of the present population of the Indian Empire (p. 686). As Dr. Radhakrishnan has obs...
Question of fact
Question of fact, is one capable of being answered by way of demonstration, a question of opinion is one that cannot be so answered. The answer to it is a matter of speculation which cannot be proved by any available evidence to be right or wrong. The past history of a company's business is a matter of fact, but its prospects of successful business in the future is a matter of opinion, Salmond on Jurisprudence, 12th Edn., p. 69: AIR 1994 SC 678.Means an issue that has not been predetermined and authoritatively answered by the law. An example is whether a particular criminal defendant is guilty of an offense or whether a contractor has delayed unreasonably in constructing a building, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1260.Question of fact might be stated in an issue without pleadings by consent (C.L.P. Act, 1852, s. 42), and may now be so stated under (English) R.S.C. Ord. XXXIV, r. 9.In general when a jury is sworn it decides all the issues of fact; but if there arise in the course ...
Law
Law [fr. lage, lagea, or lah, Sax.; loi, Fr.; legge, Ital.; lex, fr. ligo, Lat., to bind], a rule of action to which men are obliged to make their conduct conformable. A command, enforced by some sanction, to acts or forbearances of a class: see Austin's Jurisprudence; 1 Bl. Com. 38. A principle of conduct may be observed habitually by an individual or a class. When sufficiently formulated or defined to be observed uniformly by the whole of a class it may become a custom; or it may be imposed on all individuals who consent or are unable to resist its application and the sanction or penalty which is imposed for non-compliance, and in that case it becomes a law. If, in addition, the law and its sanction are imposed by, or by authority of a sovereign, the law becomes 'positive' (see Austin's Jurisprudence). Short of positive law the principle may be called a moral or social law. Generally speaking, jurisprudence is concerned only with positive law, and law in its ordinary legal sense mean...
transit alien
transit alien An alien in immediate and continuous transit through the United States, with or without a visa, including, 1) aliens who qualify as persons entitled to pass in transit to and from the United Nations Headquarters District and foreign countries and 2) foreign government officials and their spouses and unmarried minor (or dependent) children in transit. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...
Exotic
Introduced from a foreign country not native extraneous foreign as an exotic plant an exotic term or word...
In the interest of general public
In the interest of general public, the expression 'in the interest of general public' is of wide import comprehending public order, public health, public security, morals, economic welfare of the community and the objects mentioned in Part IV of the Constitution. in respect of legislations and notifications concerning the wages, working conditions or the other amenities for the working class, the courts have adopted a liberal attitude and the interest of the workers has been protected notwithstanding the hardship that might becaused to the employers, Municipal Corporation of the City of Ahmedabad v. Jan Mohammad Usmanbhai, AIR 1986 SC 1205 (1212): (1986) 3 SCC 20: (1986) 2 SCR 700.The phrase 'in the interest of the general public' is the phrase of a definite connotation and a known concept. This phrase, as used in amended s. 25-O, has been bodily lifted from Article 19(6) of the Constitution of India, Orissa Textile and Steel Co. v. State of Orissa, AIR 2002 SC 708 (725): (2002) 2 SCC ...
Importer
Importer, in relation to any goods at any time between their importation and the time when they are cleared for home consumption includes any owner or any person holding himself out to be the importer. [Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), s. 2(26)]Means a person who imports or causes goods to be imported on his own account or as an agent for another person from outside the market are into a market are for the purpose of selling, processing, manufacturing or for any other purpose except for one's own domestic consumption, but shall not include a public carrier, Karnataka Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation) Act, 1966 (27 of 1966), s. 14A.Means a dealer who brings any goods into the State or to whom any goods are dispatched from any place outside the State. [Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002, s. 2(13)]Means a person or entity that brings goods into a country from a foreign country in the dispute, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 759....
Surrender of fugitives
Surrender of fugitives. Penal laws of foreign countries are strictly local, and affect nothing more than they can reach and can be seized by virtue of their authority. A fugitive who passes hither comes with all his transitory rights. He may recover money held for his use, and stock, obligations, and the like; and cannot be affected in this country by proceedings against him in that which he has left, beyond the limits of which such proceedings do not extend. 'The lex loci must needs govern all criminal jurisdiction, from the nature of the thing and the purpose of the jurisdiction.', Warrender v. Warrender, (1834) 9 Bligh 119. See EXTRADITION...
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