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In a near manner not remotely closely intimately almost as he nearly lost his life in the accident...
As nearly as possible
As nearly as possible, the expression 'as nearly as may be' itself suggests that the proportion of 50% of the service members is not exact but approximate and is meant not to be mandatory but directory. The said proviso does not, in terms, say that in no case and at no point of time, the said proportion should either go above, or fall below 50%. In the very nature of things, a strict adherence to the said direction is not practicable at any particular point of time, Jai Shankar Prasad v. State of Bihar, AIR 1993 SC 1906 (1910): (1993) 2 SCC 597. [Constitution of India, Art. 316 (1) Proviso]...
Near
Near. In the Railway and (English) Canal Traffic Act, 1854, used of railway stations not more than one mile distant from each other; and in the (English) Unemployed Workmen Act,1905, s. 1 (a), by which the Ministry of Health may make orders extending s. 1 to 'boroughs or districts adjoining or near to London,' used without any definition. [S. 40(1)(e), Cr.P.C.]...
Near legged
Having the feet so near together that they interfere in traveling...
Nearness
The state or quality of being near used in the various senses of the adjective...
Near relative
Near relative, means spouse, son, daughter, father, mother, brother or sister. [Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 (42 of 1994), s. 2 (i)]...
Cy-pres
Cy-pres (near to it). The principle of this doctrine of construction is, that where a testator hs two objects,one primary or general and the other secondary or particular, which are incompatible, the particular must be sacrificed in order that effect may be given to the general object, as near as may be to the testator' intention, according to law. Thus, where a testator has devised lands in a manner transgressing the rules of perpetuity and the Court can by giving the estates tail to the devisees, or any of them carry the property in the precise course marked out by the testator, supposing the estates left to themselves, it will do so, see Monypenny v. Dering, 16 M & W 418. The doctrine did not apply to personalty nor to a mixed fund. See Re Harwood, Coleman v. Innes, 1936 Ch 285.It is also applied to charitable bequests, and was formerly pushed to a most extra-vagant length. But this sensible distinction now prevails, that the court will not decree the execution of a charitable trust...
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...
cy pres
cy pres [Anglo-French, as near (as possible)] : a rule in the law of trusts and estates that provides for the interpretation of instruments as nearly as possible in conformity with the intention of the testator when literal construction is illegal, impracticable, or impossible adv : in accordance with the rule of cy pres ...
Boomerang
A very singular missile weapon used by the natives of Australia and in some parts of India It is usually a curved stick of hard wood from twenty to thirty inches in length from two to three inches wide and half or three quarters of an inch thick When thrown from the hand with a quick rotary motion it describes very remarkable curves according to the shape of the instrument and the manner of throwing it often moving nearly horizontally a long distance then curving upward to a considerable height and finally taking a retrograde direction so as to fall near the place from which it was thrown or even far in the rear of it...
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