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passim

passim [Latin, here and there] : in one place and another used in citations of cases, articles, or books to indicate that something (as a word, phrase, or idea) is found at many places in the...

Heriot

Heriot [supposed by some to be derived fr. here, Sax., an army, and geat, provision, Willis, 194. Coke derives it fr. here, lord, and geat, beste, i.e., the lord's beste, Co. Litt. 185 b], the right...

Protest

Protest, a solemn declaration of opinion, generally of dissent. Each peer has a right, when he disapproves of the vote of the majority of the House of Lords, to enter his dissent on the Journals of...

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hereditament

hereditament [Medieval Latin hereditamentum, from Late Latin hereditare to inherit, from Latin hered- heres heir] : inheritable property

hereditary

hereditary [Latin hereditarius, from hereditas inheritance, from hered- heres heir] 1 : received or passing by inheritance or required to pass by inheritance [ shares] 2 : having ownership or possession through inheritance [a chief]

Low visibility rules

Low visibility rules, these are rules of law which are made inaccessible to the public. Generally these are obscure laws, with far reaching powers and which infringe fundamental rights and those which the state does not...

Obscene

Obscene, means if there be no abstract definition ........ Should not the word 'obscene' be allowed to indicate the present critical point in the compromise between candor and shame at which the community may have arrived...

Obdurate legal obscurantism

Obdurate legal obscurantism, Hardened (stubborn) tendency to oppose enquiry, enlightenment or reform, '...the obdurate legal obscurantism of litigants leads to protraction of proceedings' [Jas Raj v. Hem Raj, AIR 1977 SC 1011 (1013), para 2] -...

Necessaries

Necessaries, a relative term, not strictly limited to such things as are absolutely requisite for support and subsistence, but to be construed liberally, and varying with the state and degree, the rank, fortune, and age of...

National insurance

National insurance. The (English) National Insur-ance Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 55), introduced by Mr. Lloyd George, established a wide system of compulsory state insurance covering both ill-health and unemployment, which is based...

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