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founding father often cap both Fs : a leading figure in the founding of the U.S. ;specif : a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ...
founder
founder : one that founds or establishes: as a : one that establishes a foundation b : founding father ...
Defence of a country or the security of a country
Defence of a country or the security of a country, this is not a static concept. The days are gone by when one had to worry about the security of a country or its defence only during war time. A country has to be in a perpetual state of preparedness. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. So it is that the founding fathers with considerable wisdom and foresight provided for laws for preventive detention and the limitations thereon mentioned in Article 22 of the Constitution, Giani Bakshish Singh v. Government of India, (1973) 2 SCC 688: AIR 1973 SC 2667: (1974) 1 SCR 662....
Father and mother
Father and mother, The father or mother mentioned in sub-s. (1) of s. 9 of the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 must necessarily mean the natural father and the natural mother, Dhanraj v. Suraj Bai, AIR 1975 SC 1103: (1975) Supp SCR 73: (1975) 2 SCC 251. [Hindu Adoptions and Main-tence Act, 1956, s. 9(1)]...
Father
Father, 'father', in the case of any one whose personal law permits adoption, shall include an adoptive further. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3(20)]...
Father in law
The father of ones husband or wife correlative to son in law and daughter in law...
Fatherly
Like a father in affection and care paternal tender protecting careful...
Step father
Step father, the husband of one's mother by a later marriage, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1425....
Found to have been guilty
Found to have been guilty, the phrase 'found to have been guilty' in s. 9(1) (d) is construed in the context of clause (a) of s. 17(1), it will mean 'found to have guilty at the time of election, and immediately preceding the election', Banwari Das v. Sumer Chand, (1974) 4 SCC 817, AIR 1974 SC 1032 (1036). [Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957, ss. 9(1) (d) and 17]...
Found
Found, means when an institution, company or organization is founded by someone or by a group of people, they get it started often by providing the necessary money. (Collins Cobuild English Dictionary, New Edn., p. 670) See also Director of Income Tax v. Bharat Diamond Bourse, (2003) 1 SCC 741....
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