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Lineage [fr. lignage, Fr.], race, progeny, family, ascending or descending....
Linage
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Lineage
Descent in a line from a common progenitor progeny race descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage...
Lording
The son of a lord a person of noble lineage...
Pedigree
A line of ancestors descent lineage genealogy a register or record of a line of ancestors...
Progeny
Descendants of the human kind or offspring of other animals children offspring race lineage...
Blood
Blood, kindred, lineage. It is a maxim that none shall claim as heir who is not of the blood (i.e., kindred) of the purchaser, Co. Litt. 12 a. and see STRANGER IN BLOOD.The relationship arising by descent from a common ancestor; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
Family
Family, in relation to a person, includes the ascend-ant and descendant of such person. [Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976 (19 of 1976), s. 2(h)]. A group consisting of parents and their children; a group of person connected by blood by affinity, or by law, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 620.In relation to an occupier, means the individual, the wife or husband, as the case may be, of such individual, and their children, brother or sister of such individual. [Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 (61 of 1986), s. 2 (v)]In relation to an operator, means his wife and dependant children and includes his dependent parents. [Dangerous Machines (Regulation) Act, 1983 (35 of 1983), s. 3 (g)]Means:(i) In the case of a male-subscriber the wife or wives, parents, children, minor brothers, unmarried sisters, deceased son's widow and children and where no parent of the subscriber is alive, a paternal grandparent: Provided that if a subscriber proves that his wife has be...
Pedigree
Pedigree [fr. per and degre, Fr.-Skinner], genealogy; lineage; account of descent. Falsifying a pedigree, upon which title does or may depend, is punishable under the (English) Law of Property Amendment Act, 1859, s. 24, now L.P. Act, 1925, s. 183 (1) (b); and see the Forgery Act, 1913. As to the admissibility of hearsay evidence in questions of pedigee, see Taylor on Evidence, s. 571; Hubback on Succession, p. 648; and see ACCESS....
Stock
Stock, a race, lineage, or family; also, the public funds [for definition, see (English) National Debt Act, 1870, Part VII., and 20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 28, s. 49 (1)], considered merely as perpetual annuities redeemable at the pleasure of the Government; also, the capital of a public company, as to which see SHARES.The plain meaning of the word 'stock' in these provisions of the Act is 'to keep' and the injunction of the law means no more than this that no person shall keep for sale a misbranded drug or a drug in respect of which a valid licence is not held. It is not necessary that the drug should be 'stored' in a place in order that it can be said to have been 'stocked' for sale, S.K. Amir v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1974 SC 469: (1974) 4 SCC 210: (1974) 3 SCR 84. [Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, ss. 18(a) and (c), 27(a)]Stock, refers to currency of the State, irrespective of the place of registration of the company. The very use of the word 'stock itself connotes uniformity', National B...
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