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chain gang : a group of convicts chained together esp. to work outside a prison ...
gang
gang : a group of persons associating for antisocial and often criminal purposes and activities ...
Gang flower
The common English milkwort Polygala vulgaris so called from blossoming in gang week...
Agricultural Gangs Act, 1867
Agricultural Gangs Act, 1867 (English) (30 & 31 Vict. c. 130). This Act, after reciting that in certain counties in England certain persons known as gangmasters hire children, young persons, and women, with a view to contracting with farmers and others for the execution on their lands of various kinds of agricultural work, enacts certain regulations to be observed by gangmasters, and requires them to obtain licences. Amended as to children by the (English) Agricultural Children Act, 1873, ante....
Gang-week
Gang-week [fr. gangan, Sax., to go], the time when the bounds of the parish are lustrated or gone over by the parish officers-rogation week....
Terrorist gang
Terrorist gang, means any association, other then terrorist organisation, whether systematic or otherwise, which is concerned wife, or involved in, terrorist act. [Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (37 of 1967), s. 2(l)]...
Water-gang
Water-gang, a trench or course to carry a stream of water....
Dangerous person
Dangerous person, 'dangerous person' means a person, who either by himself or as a member of or leader of a gang, habitually commits, or attempts to commit or abets the commission of offences, punishable under Chapter XVI or Chapter XVII or Chapter XXII of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860), or any of the offences punishable under Chapter V of the Arms Act, 1959 (54 of 1959); Rashidmiya alias Chhava Ahmedmiya v. Police Commissioner (1989) 3 SCC 321:AIR 1989 SC 1703 (1706).Means a person who habitually commits or attempts to commit or abets commission of offences, either by himself or as a member of or leader of a gang, Ayub v. S.N. Sinha, AIR 1990 SC 2069 (2071). [Gujarat Prevention of Anti-Social Activities Act (16 of 1985), s. 2(c)]...
Librata terr'
Librata terr', a portion of ground containing four ox-gangs, and every ox-gang fourteen acres.This is the same with what in Scotland was called pound-land of old extent....
Woman
Woman, the word 'woman' denotes a female human being of any age. (Indian Penal Code, s. 10)By the (English) Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 1, reproducing 13 & 14 Vict. c. 21, s. 3, words in any Act of Parliament passed after 1850 importing the masculine gender include females unless the contrary intention appears. Women became qualified to be registered as apothecaries by the Apothecaries Amendment Act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 34), s. 5; as surgeons by the College of Surgeons Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 43), s. 2; and as medical practitioners by the Medical Amendment Act, 1876 (39 & 40 Vict. c. 41), s. 1, and see infra.The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act, 1919, s. 1, provides that a person shall not be disqualified by sex or marriage from the exercise of any public function, or from being appointed to or holding any civil or judicial office or post, or from entering or assuming or carrying on any civil profession or vocation, or for admission to any incorporated society (whether incorp...
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