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minors

The minor leagues those leagues of professional sports teams less proficient than the majors or major leagues...


majors

The teams in the major leagues...


Major

Greater in number quantity or extent as the major part of the assembly the major part of the revenue the major part of the territory...


major diatonic scale

The natural diatonic scale which has semitones between the third and fourth and seventh and eighth notes and whole tones between the other notes the scale of the major mode of which the third is major also called major scale See Scale and Diatonic...


Major port

Major port, means a port declared to be a major port by or under any law made by Parliament or any existing law and includes all areas for the time being included within the limits of such port, Commentary on the Constitution of India, Durga Das Basu, Vol. 5, p. 213. [Constitution of India, Art. 364(2)(a)]The President is empowered to exclude, restrict or modify the laws made by Parliament or a State Legislature or the existing laws in their application to major ports, Commentary on the Constitution of India, Durga Das Basu, Vol. 5, p. 203, Constitution of India, Art. 364....


Vis major force majeure usual

Vis major force majeure usual, the expression 'force majeure' is not a mere French version of the Latin expression 'vis major'. 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 has agreed that strikes, break-down of machinery, which, though normally not included in 'vis major' are included in 'force majeure'. Where reference is made to 'force majeure', the intention is to save the performing party from the consequences of anything over which he has no control. This is the widest meaning that can be given to 'force majeure', and even if this be the meaning, it is obvious that the condition about 'force majeure' in the agreement was not vague. The use of the word 'usual' makes all the difference, and the meaning of the condition may be made certain by evidence about a force majeure clause, which was in contemplation of parties, Dhanrajamall Gobindram v. Shamji Kalidas, AIR 1961 SC 1285 (192...


major dispute

major dispute : a labor dispute that pursuant to the Railway Labor Act concerns the making or modification rather than the interpretation of a collective bargaining agreement called also new contract dispute; compare minor dispute NOTE: Under the Railway Labor Act, which is also referred to in airline cases, a major dispute must go to mediation or arbitration if necessary. ...


Ordines majores et minores

Ordines majores et minores. The holy orders of priest, deacon, and sub-deacon, any of which qualified for presentation and admission to an ecclesiastical dignity or cure, were called ordines majores; and the inferior orders of chanters, psalmists, ostiary, reader, exorcist, and acolyte, were called ordines minores; persons ordained to the ordines minores had their prima tonsura different from the tonsura clericalis, Cowel....


Major

Major, means a person who has completed the age of eighteen years. [Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 (104 of 1956), s. 2(a)]...


Vis major

Vis major, insuperable accident, irresistible force. See ACT OF GOD.Means 'act of God' is a mere short way of expressing the proposition that a common carrier is not liable for any accident as to which he can show that it is due to natural causes directly and exclusively, without human intervention, and that it could not have prevented by any amount of foresight and pains and care reasonably to be expected for him, Baldeo Narain v. State of Bihar, AIR 1959 Pat 442....


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