Infancy - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: infancy Page: 3Infantile
Of or pertaining to infancy or to an infant similar to or characteristic of an infant childish as infantile behavior...
Infanthood
Infancy...
Hydrocephalus
An accumulation of liquid within the cavity of the cranium especially within the ventricles of the brain dropsy of the brain It is due usually to tubercular meningitis When it occurs in infancy it often enlarges the head enormously...
Childhood
The state of being a child the time in which persons are children the condition or time from infancy to puberty...
Tenure
Tenure, cannot be equated with 'terms and con-ditions of services' or payment of gravity or pension. Tenure when followed by words of office, means term of office, Punjab University v. Khalsa College, Amritsar, AIR 1971 P&H 479: 1971 Cur LJ 334.Means a right, term, or mode of holding lands or tenements in subordination to a superior; in fendal times, real property was held predominantly as part of a tenure system, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1481.Tenure, the mode of holding property. The only tenures in land now existing with a few unimpor-tant exceptions are (1) free and common socage in fee-simple, including enfranchised copyhold, which is subject to paramount incidents; and (2) a term of years absolute (see LAND). The idea of tenure or holding is said to derive from feudalism, which separated the dominium directum (the dominion of the soil), which it placed mediately, or immediately, in the Crown, from the dominium utile (the possessory title), the right to use the profits ...
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