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Home Dictionary Name: minorityMinorities
Minorities, means 'groups held together by ties of common descent, language or religious faith and feeling different in these respects from the majority of the inhabitants of a given political entity, T.M.A. Pai Foundation v. State of Karnataka, (2002) 8 SCC 481.The Constitution of India recognizes two categories of minorities, viz. religious minorities and linguistic minorities; have the fundamental right to establish and administer educational institutions of their choice and to conserve the district language, scripts or culture of their own, Constitution of India, Art. 29 and 30.Minority [fr. minor, Lat.], the state of being under age--e.g., twenty-one years. also, the smaller number.The minority under article 30 of the Constitution of India mean those from a distinct and identifiable group of citizens of India, St. Stephen's College v. University of Delhi, AIR 1992 SC 1630 (1646). [Constitution of India, Article 30]The word 'minority is not defined in the Constitution but literally...
Takes or entices any guardian of such minor
Takes or entices any guardian of such minor, the words 'takes or entices any minor out of the keeping of the lawful guardian of such minor' ins. 361, are significant. The use of the word 'Keeping' in the context connotes the idea of charge, protection, maintenance and control: further the guardian's charge and control appears to be compatible with the independence of action and movement in the minor, the guardian's protection and control of the minor being available, whenever necessity arises. On plain reading of this section the consent of the minor who is taken or enticed is wholly immaterial: it is only the guardian's consent which takes the case out of its purview. Nor is it necessary that the taking or enticing must be shown to have been by means of force or fraud. Persuasion by the accused person which creates willingness on the part of the minor to be taken out of the keeping of the lawful guardian would be sufficient to attract the section, State of Haryana v. Raja Ram, AIR 197...
Minor
Minor, a person under twenty-one years of age. There is no legal distinction between a minor in this sense and an infant. See INFANT. Strictly speaking, in Scotland a minor is a person between the ages of pupilarity and majority--in males from fourteen to twenty-one years and females from twelve to twenty-one years. minors must act with a curator if they have one, whereas pupils (under the age of pupilarity) act through their tutor. These are summary disabilities imposed by Common Law and Statute on minors.It means a person of either sex who is under eighteen years of age. [Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929, s. 2 (d)]It means a person who has completed the age of sixteen years but has not completed the age of eighteen years. [Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956, s. 2 (cb)]It means a person who has not attained the age of eighteen years. [Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923 (8 of 1923), s. 2 (1) (ff)]It means a person who has not attained the age of eighteen years. [Citizenship Act, 19...
Minor mineral
Minor mineral, the expression 'minor mineral' as defined in s. 3(e) includes 'ordinary clay' and 'ordinary sand'. If the expression 'minor mineral' as defined in s. 3(e) of the Act includes 'ordinary clay' and 'ordinary sand', there is no reason why earth used for the purpose of making bricks should not be comprehended with in the meaning of the word 'any other mineral' which may be declared as a 'minor mineral' by the Government. The word 'mineral' is not a term of art. It is a word of common parlance, capable of a multiplicity of meanings depending upon the context, Banarsi Dass Chadha v. Lt. Governor, AIR 1978 SC 1587 (1588): (1978) 4 SCC 11. [Mines and Minerals (Regulation and Development) Act, 1957 (67 of 1957), s. 3(e)]Means building stones, gravel, ordinary clay, ordinary sand other than sand used for prescribed purposes, and any other mineral which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be a minor mineral. [Mines and Minerals (Developmen...
minority
minority pl: -ties 1 a : the period before attainment of majority b : the state of being a minor 2 : the smaller of two groups constituting a whole: as a : a group (as in a legislative body) having less than the number of votes necessary for control b : a group of judges among those hearing an appeal who disagree with the majority's judgment : dissent c : a group of jurisdictions taking a less widespread approach to or view of a legal question, issue, or problem 3 a : a part of a population differing esp. from the dominant group in some characteristics (as race, sex, or national origin) and often subject to differential treatment b : a member of a minority [an effort to hire more minorities] ...
Mineral and minor mineral
Mineral and minor mineral, The word 'mineral' is not a term of art. It is a word of common parlance, capable of a multiplicity of meanings depending upon the context. The expression 'minor mineral' as defined in s. 3(e) includes 'ordinary clay' and 'ordinary sand'. If so, there is no reason why earth used for the purpose of making bricks should not be comprehended within the meaning of the word 'any other mineral' which may be declared as a 'minor mineral' by the Government, Banarsi Dass Chadha and Brothers v. Lt. Governor, Delhi Administration, AIR 1978 SC 1587 (1588): (1979) 1 SCR 271: (1978) 4 SCC 11. [Mines and Minerals (Regulation and Development) Act, 1957, s. 3(e)]...
Minor minorem custodire non debet; alios enim prasumitur male regere qui sepisum regere nescit
Minor minorem custodire non debet; alios enim prasumitur male regere qui sepisum regere nescit [Lat.], a minor cannot be guardian to a minor, for he is presumed to direct others badly who knows not how to direct himself....
Minority
Minority, means for the purposes of the study, an ethnic, religious or linguistic minority is a group numerically smaller than the rest of the population of the State to which it belongs and possessing cultural, physical or historical characteristics, a religion or a language different from those of the rest of the population (Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities Published by the Centre for Human Rights, Geneva) T.M.A. Pai Foundation v. State of Karnataka, (2002) 8 SCC 481....
Minority Educational Institution
Minority Educational Institution, means college or institution (other than a University) established or maintained by a person or group of persons from amongst the minorities. [National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions Act, 2004, s. 2(g)]...
National Commission for Minorities
National Commission for Minorities, means the National Commission for Minorities constituted under s. 3 of the National Commission for Minorities Act, 1992 (19 of 1992). [Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 (10 of 1994), s. 2 (1) (h)]...
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