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Riprap

A foundation or sustaining wall of stones thrown together without order as in deep water or on a soft bottom

Dean

supposed to have originally presided over ten canons or prebendaries at the least. In cathedrals of the old foundation in England, the dean is the principal of the four chief dignitaries, exercising a general supervision over the

Minorities

feeling different in these respects from the majority of the inhabitants of a given political entity, T.M.A. Pai Foundation v. State of Karnataka, (2002) 8 SCC 481. The Constitution of India recognizes two categories of minorities, viz.

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Occupation

with the element of a degree of permanency attached, Corpus Juris Secundum, Vol. 67; see also T.M.A. Pai Foundation v. State of Karnataka, (2002) 8 SCC 481. It does not necessarily indicate the idea of profit. A

Fundamental

Pertaining to the foundation or basis serving for the foundation

Public interest

235: (1971) Lab IC 1162 (All). Means of concern or advantage to people as a whole, T.M.A. Pai Foundation v. State of Karnataka, (2002) 8 SCC 481. Means retention of honest and efficient employees and weeding of

Magna Carta

Edward I later confirmed. It is generally regarded as one of the great common-law documents and as the foundation of constitution liberties. The other three great charters of English Liberty are the Petition of Right (3 Car.

Lie

SC 238 (243): (1995) 2 SCC 630. [Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Act, 1988, s. 4(1)] It means 'to have foundation in the law; to be legally supportable, sustainable, or proper', (Black's Law Dictionary).

Grammar Schools

c. 77), the teaching of one or both of these languages, in accordance with the terms of the foundation, cannot be dispensed with. Grammar Schools are now usually governed by schemes under the Endowed Schools Acts, and

Lex loci contractus

of agencies, of purchases and sales, of mutual credits, and of transfers of negotiable instruments, rests on this foundation; and the nation which should refuse to acknowledge the common principles would soon find its whole commercial intercourse

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