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Human Dignity, right to life. Includes right to live with human dignity. It is the duty of state not only to protect human dignity but to facilitate itby taking positive steps in that direction. The expression 'life' in Art. 21 does not connote merely physical or animal existence. Certain unarticulated rights are implicit in the enumerated guarantees, Constitution of India, Art. 21, Pt. III, M. Nagraj v. Union of India, (2006) 8 SCC 212....
Human rights
Human rights, means the rights relating to life, liberty, equality and dignity of the individual guaranteed by the Constitution or embodied in the International Covenants and enforceable by courts in India. [Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 (10 of 1994), s. 2 (1) (d)]The freedoms, immunities and benefits that accor-ding to modern values (esp. at an international level, all human beings should be able to claim as a matter of right in society in which they live, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
Life or personal liberty
Life or personal liberty, the expression 'life or personal liberty' in Article 21 of the Constitution includes right to live with human dignity which would include guarantee against torture and assault by the State, Kartar Singh v. State of Punjab, (1994) 3 SCC 569 (729). (Constitution of India, Article, 21)...
Dignities
Dignities, a species of incorporeal hereditament, in which a man may have a property or estate. As an incorporeal hereditament, a dignity was held to be 'land' within the meaning of s. 37 of the Settled Land Act, 1882 [Re Rivett-Carnac, (1885) 30 Ch D 136]. See now ss. 67 and 75 (5) of the Settled Land Act, 1925. Dignities were originally annexed to the possession of certain estates in land, and created by a grant of those estates; or, at all events, that was the most usual course. And although they are little more than personal distinctions, they are still classed under the head of real property; and as having relation to land, in theory at least, may be entailed by the Crown, within the Statute de Donis; or limited in remainder, to commence after the determination of a preceding estate-tail in the same dignity. See PEOPLE; PRECEDENCE....
Human
Belonging to man or mankind having the qualities or attributes of a man of or pertaining to man or to the race of man as a human voice human shape human nature human sacrifices...
Or is otherwise unfit for human consumption
Or is otherwise unfit for human consumption, the words 'or' is otherwise unfit for human consumption are disjunctive of the rest of the words preceding them. It relates to a distinct and separate class altogether. The clause 'or is otherwise unfit for human consumption' is residuary provision which would apply to a case not covered by or falling squarely within the clauses preceding it. If the phrase is to be read disjunctively the mere proof of the article of food being 'filthy, putrid, rotten,decomposed.... or insect infested' would be per se sufficient to bring within the purview of theword 'adulterated' as defined in sub-clause (f) and it would not be necessary in such a case toprove further that the article of food was unfit for human consumption, Municipal Corporation v. Tek Chand Bhatia, (1980) 1 SCC 158: AIR 1980 SC 360 (362). [Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954, s. 2(1)(f)]...
Human organ
Human organ, means any part of a human body consisting of a structured arrangement of tissues which, if wholly removed, cannot be replicated by the body. [Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 (45 of 1994), s. 2 (h)]...
Human Rights Court
Human Rights Court, means the human rights Court specified under s. 30. [Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 (10 of 1994) s. 2(e)]...
Humanism
Human nature or disposition humanity...
Humanize
To render human or humane to soften to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits to refine or civilize...
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