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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...
Wife
Wife [wif, Sax.; wiff, Dut,; wyf, Icel.; uxor, Lat.], a woman that has a husband. See HUSBAND AND WIFE. Wife includes a divorced Muslim wife, Zohara Khatoon v. Mohd. Ibrahim, AIR 1981 SC 1243: (1981) 2...
Share and debenture
Share and debenture, 'Share' has been defined in s. 2(46) of the Companies Act to mean a share in the share capital of a company which in turn would mean that it would represent contribution of...
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In the son or daughter of such a female
In the son or daughter of such a female, even in the absence of the words which were inserted by the Amendment Act of 1964 in s. 15(2)(b) the only possible interpretation and meaning of the...
Iddat period
Iddat period, means in the case of a divorced woman,-- (i) three menstrual courses after the date of divorce, if she is subject to menstruation; and (ii) three lunar months after her divorce, if she is...
F'der-feoh
F'der-feoh, the portion brought by a wife to her husband, and which reverted to a widow, in case the heir of her deceased husband refused his consent to her second marriage: i.e., it reverted to her...
invasion of privacy
invasion of privacy :the tort of unjustifiably intruding upon another's right to privacy by appropriating his or her name or likeness, by unreasonably interfering with his or her seclusion, by publicizing information about his or her...
Equity to a settlement (Wife's)
Equity to a settlement (Wife's). Prior to the Married Women's Property Acts (see MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY), the law permitted a husband to possess himself absolutely of the whole of his wife's personal property and the rents...
Free-bench
Free-bench [sedes libera, Lat.], a widow's dower out of copyholds to which she was entitled by the custom of some manors. It is regarded as an excrescence growing out of the husband's interest, and is indeed...
Women's modesty
Women's modesty, the essence of a woman's modesty is her sex. The modesty of an adult female is writ large on her body. Young or old, intelligent or imbecile, awake or sleeping, the woman possesses a...
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