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Incest

left to the action of the spiritual courts, 4 Steph. Com. It is now within certain relationships, whether legitimate or illegitimate, including a half-brother and half-sister, a misdemeanor, punishable by seven years' penal servitude by virtue of

Issue

Issue [fr. exitus, Lat.], used in several senses:-(1) The legitimate offspring of parents. The word 'issue' in a will was either a word of purchase or of limitation,

Institutions

over their children, is treated of; after which is shown the manner of acquiring paternal power--viz., by marriage, legitimation, and adoption, and how that power may be lost. Title XIII to the end of the first book

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Illegitimate blood

2(b) Exp. I(b), Relationship in the terminology degrees of prohibited relationship includes illegitimate blood relationship as well as legitimate. [Special Marriage Act, 1954, s. 2(b) Expl. (b)]

House, Houses

to and interchangeable or synonymous with 'building', 'dwelling' and 'dwelling house' and sometimes 'premises'. The rules are a legitimate aid to construction of the statute as contemporaneous exposition. Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company Ltd. v. Gram Panchayat,

Hindu

also according to explanation (ii) to s. 3(1) of the Hindu Minority and Guardian-ship Act, 1956, any child legitimate or illegitimate, one of whose parents is a Hindu by religion and who is brought up as a

Gratuity

of a long series of decisions of industrial tribunals gratuity has now come to be regarded as a legitimate claim which workmen can make and which, in a proper case, can give rise to an industrial dispute.

Foster child

Foster child, 'Foster Child' need not be the real legitimate child of the person who brings him up. He is essentially the child of another person but is

Force majeure

It is undoubtedly a term of wider import. Difficulties have arisen in the past as to what could legitimately be included in 'force majeure'. Judges have agreed that strikes, breakdown of machinery, which, though normally not included

For the purpose of the business

but also measures for the preservation of the business and protection of its assets and property. It may legitimately comprehend many other acts incidental to the carrying on of the business, CIT v. Birla Cotton SPG &

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