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Foreign language, means a language which is neither an Indian language nor the English language. [Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003, s. 2(e)]...
Foreignism
Anything peculiar to a foreign language or people a foreign idiom or custom...
Charism
A miraculously given power as of healing speaking foreign languages without instruction etc attributed to some of the early Christians...
H
the eighth letter of the English alphabet is classed among the consonants and is formed with the mouth organs in the same position as that of the succeeding vowel It is used with certain consonants to form digraphs representing sounds which are not found in the alphabet as sh th thlig as in shall thing thligine for zh see sect274 also to modify the sounds of some other letters as when placed after c and p with the former of which it represents a compound sound like that of tsh as in charm written also tch as in catch with the latter the sound of f as in phase phantom In some words mostly derived or introduced from foreign languages h following c and g indicates that those consonants have the hard sound before e i and y as in chemistry chiromancy chyle Ghent Ghibelline etc in some others ch has the sound of sh as in chicane See Guide to Pronunciation sectsect 153 179 181 3 237 8...
Lingua Franca
The commercial language of the Levant a mixture of the languages of the people of the region and of foreign traders...
Bilinguis
Bilinguis, one who uses two tongues or languages; a jury, part Englishmen and part foreigners, which used to try a foreigner for a crime....
Alien
Alien [fr. alienigena, alibi natus, Lat.], a person not born within His Majesty's dominions and allegiance (q.v.). See definitions in the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Acts, 1914 and 1933, infra. At common law aliens were subject to very many disqualifications, the nature of which is shown by the (English) Act of 1844, 7 & 8 Vict. c. 66, which greatly relaxed the law in their favour. It provided, inter alia, that every person born of a British mother should be capable of holding real or personal estate; that alien friends might hold every species of personal property except chattels real; that subjects of a friendly power might hold lands, etc., for the purposes of residence or business for a term not exceeding twenty-one years; and it also provided for aliens becoming naturalized.Alien, (UK) is a person who is neither a Common-wealth citizen nor a British protected person nor a citizen of the Republic of Ireland. Aliens therefore include both persons having the nationality ...
do
do did done do·ing does vt 1 : perform execute 2 : commit [did this act of cruelty] verbal auxiliary used with the infinitive without to to form present and past tenses in legal and parliamentary language [ hereby bequeath] do business : to be engaged in business activities (as soliciting sales) ;specif : to engage in activities sufficient to subject a foreign company to the personal jurisdiction of a state [was sufficient to constitute doing business in the state "International Shoe Co. v. Washington, 326 U.S. 310 (1945)"] see also doing business statute ...
Cahenslyism
A plan proposed to the Pope in 1891 by P P Cahensly a member of the German parliament to divide the foreign born population of the United States for ecclesiastical purposes according to European nationalities and to appoint bishops and priests of like race and speaking the same language as the majority of the members of a diocese or congregation This plan was successfully opposed by the American party in the Church...
Constitution
Constitution, any regular form or system of government. Also a particular law, ordinance, or regulation made by the authority of any superior; as the Novel Constitutions of Justinian and his successors; the Constitutions of Clarendon; the Ecclesiastical Constitutions, etc.Constitution and 'Organisation' as against jurisdiction and powers', words do not include words 'jurisdiction' and powers' within their scope and power of 'Constitution' and 'organisation' of the Supreme Court and High Court nests with Parliament alone, Jamshed N. Guzdar v. State of Maharashtra, (2005) 2 SCC 59.Constitution is the mechanism under which the laws are to be made and not merely an Act which declares what the law is to be. A Constitution must not be construed in any narrow or pedantic sense, and that construction most beneficial to the widest possible amplitude of its power, must be adopted, India Cement Ltd. v. State of T.N., (1990) 1 SCC 12: AIR 1990 SC 85.Means the Constitution of India. [Supreme Court ...
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