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To clean as a vessels bottom of barnacles grass etc and pay it over with pitch so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose...
Gravely
In a grave manner...
Graveness
The quality of being grave...
Benefice
Benefice [fr. beneficium, M. Lat., a kindness], an ecclesiastical living and promotion, a rectory or vicarage: all church preferments except bishoprics; also a fief in the feudal system. See s. 13(1) of the (English) Benefices Act, 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. C. 48).The (English) Benefices Act, 1898, requires registration of the transfer of the right of patronage of a benefice, prohibits the sale of the right of the next presentation thereto, and requires a bishop before collating or admitting a clergyman to a benefice to give one month's notice to the churchwardens of the parish of the intended collation or admission.By the (English) Benefices Act, 1898 (Amendment) Measure, 1923 (14 & 15 Geo. 5, No. 1), s. 1, a right of patronage is to be incapable of sale after the benefice has been twice vacant subsequent to 14 July, 1924; and by s. 2 a patron may make a declaration under seal that his right of patronage shall thenceforth be without power of sale. And by the (English) Benefices (Transfer of...
Confession
Confession, a statement in order to amount to a 'confession' must either admit in terms the offence, or at any rate substantially all the facts which constitute the offence. An admission of an incriminating fact, howsoever grave, is not byitself a confession. A statement which contains an exculpatory assertion of some fact, which if true, would negative the offence alleged cannot amount to a confession, Veera Ibrahim v. State of Maharashtra, (1976) 2 SCC 302: AIR 1976 SC 1167 (1171): (1967) 3 SCR 672. [Evidence Act (1 of 1987), s. 24]'Confession' in common acceptation means and implies acknowledgment of guilt--its evidentiary value and its acceptability however shall have to be assessed by the Court having due regard to the credibility of the witnesses. In the event, however, the Court is otherwise in a position having due regard to the attending circumstances believes the witness before whom the confession is made and is otherwise satisfied that the confession is in fact voluntary and...
Cruelty
Cruelty, it is contemplated as a conduct of such type which endangers the living of the petitioner with the respondent. Cruelty consists of acts which are dangerous to life, limb or health. Cruelty for the purpose of the Act means where one spouse has so treated the other and manifested such feelings towards her or him as to have inflicted bodily injury , or to have caused reasonable apprehension of bodily injury, suffering or to have injured health. Cruelty may be physical or mental. Mental cruelty is the conduct of other spouse which causes mental suffering or fear to the matrimonial life of the other, Savitri Pandey v. Prem Chandra Pandey, AIR 2002 SC 591 (595): (2002) 2 SCC 73. [Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, s. 13(1)(ia)]Harassment of the woman where such harassment is with a view to coercing her or any person related to her to meet any unlawful demand for any property or valuable security would also constitute cruelty, Shobha Rani v. Modhukar Reddi, (1988) 1 SCC 105: AIR 1988 SC 121 (...
battered child syndrome
battered child syndrome : the combination of grave physical injuries (as broken bones and bruises) that results from gross child abuse NOTE: Evidence of battered child syndrome is often used to establish that a child's death was not accidental. ...
commit
commit com·mit·ted com·mit·ting vt 1 a : to put into another's charge or trust : entrust consign [committed her children to her sister's care] b : to place in a prison or mental hospital esp. by judicial order [was found to be gravely disabled and was involuntarily committed to the Central Louisiana State Hospital "In the Matter of K.G., 531 So. 2d 575 (1988)"] compare institutionalize, interdict c : to send (as a legislative bill) to a committee for consideration and report [ the crime bill to the joint committee] 2 : to carry into action deliberately : perpetrate [to define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas "U.S. Constitution art. I"] 3 : obligate bind vi : to obligate or bind oneself [would not to the irrevocable order] ...
gravamen
gravamen [Medieval Latin, from Late Latin, burden, from Latin gravare to burden, from gravis heavy, grave] : gist ...
moral turpitude
moral turpitude 1 : an act or behavior that gravely violates the sentiment or accepted standard of the community 2 : a quality of dishonesty or other immorality that is determined by a court to be present in the commission of a criminal offense [a crime involving moral turpitude] compare malum in se NOTE: Whether a criminal offense involves moral turpitude is an important determination in deportation, disbarment, and other disciplinary hearings. Past crimes involving moral turpitude usually may also be introduced as evidence to impeach testimony. Theft, perjury, vice crimes, bigamy, and rape have generally been found to involve moral turpitude, while liquor law violations and disorderly conduct generally have not. ...
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