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Home Dictionary Name: householdShared household
Shared household, means a household where the person aggrieved lives or at any stage has lived in a domestic relationship either singly or along with the respondent and includes such a household whether owned or tenanted either jointly by the aggrieved person and the respondent, or owned or tenanted by either of them in respect of which either the aggrieved person or the respondent or both jointly or singly have any right, title, interest or equity and includes such a household which may belong to the joint family of which the respondent is a member, irrespective of whether the respondent or the aggrieved person has any right, title or interest in the shared household. [Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, s. 2(s)]Shared household, no doubt the definition of 'shared household' in s. 2(s) of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence, Act, 2005, is not very happily worded, and appears to be the result of clumsy drafting, but the Supreme Court gave it an interpretati...
Intended for personal or household use
Intended for personal or household use, the expression 'intended for personal or household use' did not mean capable of being intended for personal or household use. It meant normally, commonly orordinarily intended for personal or household use, H.H. Maharaja Rana Hemant Singhji v. CIT, AIR 1976SC 662 (665): (1976) 1 SCC 996: (1976) 3 SCR 423....
Compound householder
Compound householder. The payment of rates was formerly one of the ingredients in the qualification for the parliamentary franchise; but modern statutes have enabled the owners of small houses to pay the rates for the occupiers and receive a composition for so doing. To prevent the occupiers being disfranchised by this process, it was enacted that they might claim to be rated themselves, and such householders so claiming became commonly known as 'compound householders,' as appears from the title to the Act, 14 & 15 Vict. c. 14, now repealed, see Representation of People Act, 1918, Schedule 8....
Counting-house of the King's household
Counting-house of the King's household, usually called the Board of Green Cloth, where sit the lord-steward and treasurer of the king's house, the comptroller, master of the household, cofferer, and two clerks of the Green Cloth, for daily taking the accounts of all expenses of the household, making provisions, and ordering payment for the same, 39 Eliz. C. 7. See Jac. Law Dict....
head of household
head of household :an unmarried individual who is not a surviving spouse and who maintains a household which for more than one-half of the taxable year is the principal abode of a person who qualifies as a dependent under section 2(b) of the Internal Revenue Code ...
householder
householder : a person who occupies a house alone or as head of a household ;specif : one who makes a declaration of homestead ...
head of the household
head of the household A filing status used by an unmarried taxpayer who pays over half of the cost of maintaining the home of a qualified individual. ...
household goods
household goods see good ...
household income
household income The income used to determine whether a sponsor meets the minimum income requirements under Section 213A of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) for some immigrant visa cases. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
A shared household
A shared household, in s. 2(5) of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 is not very happily worded, and appears to be the result of clumsy drafting, but the court has to give it an interpretation which is sensible and which does not lead to chaos in society, S.R. Batra v. Taruna Batra, 136 (2007) DLT 1 (SC): 1 (2007) DMC 1 (SC): 2007 (1) UJ 2 (SC). [Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, s. 2(s)]...
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