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Local needs

Local needs, it may be difficult to give a restrictive meaning to the expression 'local needs' i.e. keeping the same confined to the area where the educational institution is sought to be established in as much as the right of minority extends to the entire State and, thus, the local needs may also have direct nexus having regard to the needs of the State, Islamic Academy of Education v. State of Karnataka, AIR 2003 SC 3724: (2003) 6 SCC 697 (770)....


Need

Need, denotes a certain degree of want with a thrust within demanding fulfilment, Shiv Sary Gupta v. Dr. Mahesh Chand Gupta, (1999) 6 SCC 222.Need, Landlord's desire for possession, however honest it might otherwise be, has inevitably a subjective element in it and that, that desire to become a 'requirement' in law must have the objective element of a 'need', Ram Dass v. Ishwar Chander, (1988) 3 SCC 131 AIR: 1988 SC 1422 (1424). [E.P. Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949, s. 13(3) (a) (i) (a)]The word 'needs' suggests that there has to be a necessity for a decision by the Supreme Court on the question, and such a necessity can be said to exist when, for instance, two views are possible regarding the question and High Court takes one of the said views. Such a necessity can also be said to exist when a different view has been expressed by another High Court, State Bank of India v. N. Sundara Money, AIR 1976 SC 1111 (1112): (1976) 1 SCC 822: (1976) 3 SCR 160....


Drawee in case of need

Drawee in case of need, when in the bill or in any endorsement thereon the name of any person is given in addition to the drawee to be resorted to in case of need, such person is called a 'drawee in case of need'. [Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (26 of 1881), s. 7]...


Need and require

Need and require, the words 'need' and 'require' both denote a certain degree of want with a thrust within demanding fulfilment. 'Need' or 'requirement' qualified by word 'bona fide' or 'genuine' preceding as an adjective - is an expression often used in Rent Control Laws, Shiv Sarop Gupta v. Mahesh Chand Gupta, AIR 1999 SC 2507 (2512): (1999) 6 SCC 222....


Needful

Full of need in need or want needy distressing...


Needly

Like a needle or needles as a needly horn a needly beard...


Child in need of care and protection

Child in need of care and protection, s. 2(d) 'child in need of care and protection' means a child-(i) who is found without any home or settled place or abode and without any ostensible means of subsistence, (ii) who resides with a person (whether a guardian of the child or not) and such person-(a) has threatened to kill or injure the child and there is a reasonable likelihood of the threat being carried out, or (b) has killed, abused or neglected some other child or children and there is a reasonable likelihood of the child in question being killed, abused or neglected by that person, (iii) who is mentally or physically challenged orill children or children suffering from terminal diseases or incurable diseases having no one to support or look after, (iv) who has a parent or guardian and such parent or guardian is unfit or incapacitated to exercise control over the child, (v) who does not have parent and no one is willing to take care of or whose parents have abandoned him or who is m...


needed

necessary as provided them with all needed equipment Opposite of unnecessary...


Needs

Of necessity necessarily indispensably often with must and equivalent to of need...


Reasonable

Reasonable, has in law prima facie meaning of reasonable in regard to those circumstances of which the actor, called upon to act reasonably knows or ought to know, Gujarat Water Supply & Sewerage Board v. Unique Erectors (Gujarat) Pvt. Ltd., (1989) 1 JT SC 157: (1989) 39 ELT 493: AIR 1989 SC 973; Rena Drego v. Lalchand Soni, (1998) 3 SCC 341.Reasonable, has in law the prima facie meaning of reasonable in regard those circumstances of which the actor, called on to act reasonably, knows or ought to know, Rena Drego v. Lalchand Soni, (1998) 3 SCC 341.Means rational, according to dictate of reason and not excessive or immoderate. If something is not per se preposterous or absurd, it must he held to be reasonable. 'The action is called reasonable which an informed, intelligent, just minded, civilized man could rationally favour. The concept of reasonable-ness does not exclude notions of morality and ethics. In the circumstances of a given case consi-derations of morality and ethics may have...


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