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House hold, the word household signifies a family living together, Oswal Agro Mills v. CCE, AIR 1993 SC 2288 (2291): 1 (1993) 2 SCC Supp 716.Means the member of a family related to each other by blood, marriage or adoption and normally residing together and sharing meals or holding a common ration card. [National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005, s. 2(f)]...
Magna Carta
Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III and Edward I later confirmed. It is generally regarded as one of the great common-law documents and as the foundation of constitution liberties. The other three great charters of English Liberty are the Petition of Right (3 Car. (1628)), the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2 (1679)), and the Bill of Rights (1 Will. SM. (1689)). Also spelled Magna charta, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 963.This Great Charter is based substantially upon the Saxon Common Law, which flourished in this kingdom until the Normaninvasion consolidated the system of feudality, still the great characteristic of the principles of real property. The barons assembled at St.Edmund's Bury, in Suffolk, in the later part of the year 1214, and there solemnly swore upon the high alter to withdraw their allegiance from the Crown, and openly rebel, unless King John confirmed by a formal charter the ancient li...
Tenement
Tenement [fr. teneo, Lat., to hold], in its vulgar acceptation, is only applied to houses and other buildings, but in its original, proper, and legal sense, it signifies everything that may be holden, provided it be of a permanent nature, whether it be of a substantial and sensible, or of an unsubstantial, ideal kind. Thus liberum tenementum, frank tenement, or freehold, is applicable not only to lands and other solid objects, but also to offices, rents, commons, advowsons, franchises, peerages, etc, 2 Bl. Com. 16. 'Tenement' may denote the estate is as well as the land. Halsb. L.E., tit. 'Real Property.'Local authorities sometimes refer to separately rated parts of houses or flats s tenements.1. Properly (esp. land) held by freehold; an estate or holding of land 2. A house or other building used as a residence, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.Means the property especially land, held by free-hold, an estate or holding of land, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 14801. Properly (esp. ...
Toilet soap
Toilet soap, which is being used for everybody house-hold use for purpose of bath would fall within the meaning of house-hold soap, Oswal Agro Mills Ltd. v. C.C.E., AIR 1993 SC 2288 (2295)....
Green cloth
Green cloth. The counting-house of the king's household was commonly called the Green Cloth in respect of the green cloth upon the table whereat the lord steward, the treasurer of the king's house, and other inferior officers sat:-(1) For daily taking the accounts for all expenses of the house-hold. (2) For making provisions for the household, according to the laws and statutes of the realm. (3) For making of payments for the same. (4) For the good government of the king's servants. (5) For payment of the wages of the king's servants. The officers of the counting-house never held plea of anything, 4 Inst. 131....
Session, Court of, in Scotland
Session, Court of, in Scotland, the supreme civil Court of Scotland, instituted A.D. 1532, and formerly consisting of fifteen judges-that number being reduced in 1830, by 11 Geo. 4 & 1 Wm. 4, c. 69, s. 20, to thirteen; viz., the Lord President, the Lord Justice-Clerk, and eleven ordinary lords. This Court is required, by 48 Geo. 3, c. 151, to sit in two divisions; the Lord President, with three ordinary lords, form the first division; and the Lord Justice-Clerk and there other ordinary lords form the second division. There are five permanent Lords Ordinary, attached equally to both divisions, the last appointed of whom officiates on the bills, i.e., petitions to the Court during session, and performs the other duties of junior Lord Ordinary. The chambers of the Parliament House, in which the First and Second Divisions of the Court of Session hold their sittings, are called the Inner House; those in which the Lords Ordinary sit, as single judges, to hear motions and causes, are collecti...
good
good bet·ter best 1 : commercially sound or reliable [a risk] 2 a : valid or effectual under the law b : free of defects 3 a : characterized by honesty and fairness b : conforming to a standard of virtue [shall hold their offices during behavior "U.S. Constitution art. III"] ;also : characterized by or relating to good behavior n 1 : advancement of prosperity and well-being [for the of the community] 2 : an item of tangible movable personal property having value but usually excluding money, securities, and negotiable instruments usually used in pl. : as a pl : all things under section 2-105 of the Uniform Commercial Code that are movable at the time of identification to the contract for sale other than the money that is to be paid, investment securities, and choses in action b pl : all things under section 9-104 of the Uniform Commercial Code that are movable at the time that a security interest in them attaches or that are fixtures but excluding money, documents,...
Yeoman, or Yoman
Yeoman, or Yoman, a man of a small estate in land; a farmer, a gentleman farmer; also, a 40s. freeholder not advanced to the rank of a gentleman; the highest order among the plebeians, 2 Inst. 668.1. An attendant in a royal or noble house hold 2. A commoner; a free holder (under the rank of gentleman) who holds land yielding 40 shilling per year, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1610....
Sitting and voting
Sitting and voting, the words 'sitting and voting' in Article 193 of the Constitution imply the summoning of the House under Article 174 by the governor to meet at such time and place as the thinks fit and the holding of the meeting of the House pursuant to the said summons or an adjourned meeting, Pashupati Nath Sukul v. Nem Chandra Jain, AIR 1984 SC 399 (406): (1984) 2 SCC 404: (1984) 1 SCR 939....
Harbinger
Harbinger, an officer of the royal house-hold....
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