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Charitable uses and trusts

or to or in trust for the colleges of Eton, Winchester, or Westminster, for the better support and maintenance of the scholars upon the foundations thereof; and various Acts of Parliament passed from time to time have

Policed

Regulated by laws for the maintenance of peace and order enforced by organized administration

Bastard

that Act to obtain a summons notwithstanding that the father may not have paid money for the child's maintenance within twelve months of the birth of the child. As to the obligations of the putative father to

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Prebend

A payment or stipend esp the stipend or maintenance granted to a prebendary out of the estate of a cathedral or collegiate church with which he is

Act of Grace

Act of Grace. The Act so termed in Scotland was passed in 1696; it provides for the maintenance of debtors imprisoned by their creditors. It is usually applied in England to general pardons granted at the

Acting in any manner prejudicial to the main-tenance of public order

in any manner prejudicial to the security of the State' and 'acting in any manner prejudicial to the maintenance of public order' separately, G.M. Shah v. State of Jammu and Kashmir (1980) 1 SCC 132: AIR 1980

Acting in any manner prejudicial to the security of the State

of the State, The expression 'acting in any manner prejudicial to the security of the State or the maintenance of public order' would, inter alia, include the commission on the offence of mischief by fire on any

Affect any adoption

Shri Chandraprabha, (1975) 3 SCR 32: (1975) 1 SCC 612: AIR 1975 SC 784 (788). [Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act (78 of 1956) s. 30]

Allegation of faculties

faculties, the statement of a person's means. A term formerly used in the Ecclesiastical Courts in proceedings for alimony.

Approach

England, Vol. 21, 4th Edn., Para 770, p. 564. In relation to a bridge, means approaches for the maintenance of which the owners of the bridge are responsible and which connect the bridge to the highway maintainable

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