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Keeping house

Keeping house, confining oneself within the privacy of home to defeat creditors; an act of bankruptcy. See BANKRUPTCY....

Receiving or having received formal education especially primary or secondary education at home rather than in a school The instruction at home may be accomplished by parents or by professionals who come to the home as home schooled students often get higher test scores than those educated in schools...

Psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home

Psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home, means a hospital or, as the case may be, a nursing home established or maintained by the Government or any other person for the treatment and care of mentally ill person and includes a convalescent home established or maintained by the Government or any other person for such mentally ill persons; but does not include any general hospital or general nursing home established or maintained by the Government and which provides also for psychiatric services. [Mental Health Act, 1987 (14 of 1987), s. 2 (q) ]...

Shelter home

Shelter home, means a home or a drop-in-centre set up under s. 37. [Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 (56 of 2000), s. 2(u)]Means any shelter home as may be notified by the State Government to be a shelter home for the purpose of this Act. [Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, s. 2(t)]...

american society of home inspectors

american society of home inspectors the American Society of Home Inspectors is a professional association of independent home inspectors. Phone: (800) 743-2744 Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...

Observation home

Observation home, means a home established by a State Government or by a voluntary organisation and certified by that State Government under s. 8 as an observation home for the juvenile in conflict with law. [Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 (56 of 2000), s. 2(o)]...

Keeping

Keeping, The use of the word 'keeping' in the context connotes the idea of charge, protection, maintenance and control: further the guardian's charge and control appears to be compatible with the independence of action and movement in the minor, the guardian's protection and control of the minor being available, whenever necessity arises, State of Haryana v. Raja Ram, (1973) 1 SCC 544: AIR 1973 SC 819 (822). (Indian Penal Code, s. 361)The words 'takes or entices any minor... out of the keeping of the lawful guardian of such minor' in s. 361, are significant. The use of the word 'keeping' in the context connotes the idea of charge, protection, maintenance and control; further, the guardian's charge and control appears to be compatible with the independence of action and movement of the minor, the guardian's protection and control of the minor being available, whenever necessity arises, Parkash v. State of Haryana, (2004) 1 SCC 339 (342). (Indian Penal Code, s. 361)...

Keeping a brothel

Keeping a brothel, It may be true that a place used once for the purpose of prostitution may not be a brothel, but it is a question of fact as to what conclusion should be drawn about the use of a place about which a person goes and freely asks for girls, where the person is shown girls to select from and where he does engage a girl for the purpose of prostitution. The conclusion to be derived from these circumstances about the place and the person 'keeping it' can be nothing else than that the place was being used as a brothel and the person in charge was so keeping it. It is not necessary that there should be evidence of repeated visits by persons to the place for the purpose of prostitution. A single instance coupled with the surrounding circumstances is sufficient to establish both that the place was being used as a brothel and that the person alleged was so keeping it, Krishnamurthy v. Public Prosecutor, (1967) 1 SCR 586: AIR 1967 SC 567 (568). [Suppression of Immoral Traffic in W...

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