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one woman
Designed for or restricted to a single person same as one man but used when the person in question is female or to avoid sexist language as a one woman submarine a one woman show...
Nurse
One who nourishes a person who supplies food tends or brings up as a A woman who has the care of young children especially one who suckles an infant not her own b A person especially a woman who has the care of the sick or infirm...
Marriage
Marriage. Marriage as understood in Christendom is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others, Hyde v. Hyde, 1866 LR 1 P&D 130. Where a marriage in a foreign country complies with these requirements it is immaterial that under the local law dissolution can be obtained by mutual consent or at the will of either party with merely formal conditions of official registration, and it constitutes a valid marriage according to English law, Nachimson v. Nachimson, 1930, P. 217. Previous to 1753 the validity of marriage was regulated by ecclesiastical law, not touched by any statutory nullity but modified by the Common law Courts, which sometimes interfered with the Ecclesiastical Courts, by prohibition, sometimes themselves decide on the validity of a marriage, presuming a marriage in fact as opposed to lawful marriage. A religious ceremony by an ordained clergyman was essential to a lawful marriage, at all events for dower and heirship; but if in an i...
Monogyny
Marriage with the one woman only...
Polygamy
The having of a plurality of wives or husbands at the same time usually the marriage of a man to more than one woman or the practice of having several wives at the same time opposed to monogamy as the nations of the East practiced polygamy See the Note under Bigamy and cf Polyandry...
Rape
Rape, extends also to the forcible sexual intercourse by a woman with a man, as well as the offence of rape as defined in the Indian Penal Code speaks only of forcible sexual intercourse by a man with a woman, Anil Kumar Mahsi v. Union of India, (1994) 5 SCC 704.Rape, is the carnal knowledge of any woman, above the age of particular years, against her will; or of a woman child, under that age, with or against her will' (Hale PC 628).Rape, or 'raptus' is when a man hath carnal knowledge of a woman by force and against her will (Co-Litt. 123-b).The offence of rape in its simplest term is 'the ravishment of a woman, without her consent, by force, fear or fraud', or as 'the carnal knowledge of a woman by force against her will'. 'Rape' or 'raptus' is when a man hath carnal knowledge of a woman by force and against her will (Co. Litt. 123-b); or as expressed more fully, 'rape is the carnal knowledge of any woman, above the age of particular years, against her will; or of a woman child, unde...
Modesty
Modesty, as 'womanly propriety of behaviour; scrupulous chastity of thought, speech and conduct; reserve or sense of shame proceeding from instinctive aversion to impure or coarse suggestions, Oxford English Dictionary (1993 Edn.); Raju Pandurang Mahale v. State of Maharashtra, (2004) 4 SCC 371.Modesty, as freedom from coarseness, indelicacy or indecency; a regard for propriety in dress, speech or conduct, (Webster's Third New International Dictionary); Raju Pandurang Mahale v. State of Maharashtra, (2004) 4 SCC 371.Modesty, can be described as the quality of being modest; and in relation to a woman , 'womanly propriety to behaviour; scrupulous chastity of thought, speech and conduct.' It is the reserve or sense of shame proceeding from instinctive aversion to impure or coarse suggestions, Aman Kumar v. State of Haryana, (2004) 4 SCC 379 (389). (Indian Penal Code, s. 354)--the essential ingredients of the offence unders. 354, IPC are as under:(i) that the person assaulted must be a wom...
Husband and wife
Husband and wife. the Common Law treated them, for most purposes, as one person, giving, with exceptions comparatively unimportant, the whole of a woman's property to her husband for his absolute use, and a husband could not make a grant to his wife at the Common Law, though he might do so: (1) under the Statute of Uses, by granting an estate to another person for her use; (2) by creating a trust in her favour; (3) by the custom of particular places; (4) by surrendering copyholds to her use; and (5) by will.Equity, however, from very early times, by the doctrines of 'separate use,' 'trusts,' and 'equity to a settlement,' very largely modified the Common Law in favour of the wife; and the statute law has, by s. 1 of the Law Reform (Married Women and Tortfeasors Act), 1935 (25 & 26 Geo. 5, c. 30), almost completely abolished the property distinction between an unmarried and a married woman. See MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY.At Common Law, a gift of either realty or personal-ity to a husband a...
Espousals
Espousals [fr. sponsalia, Lat.; espouse, Fr.], the act of contracting or affiancing a man and woman to each other; the ceremony of betrothing.A mental promise between a man and woman to money one another, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 566....
Board of Control
Board of Control. The (English) Mental Treatment Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 23), established five Commissioners, including the Chairman, all of whom are paid. The Commissioners are styled senior Commissioners-including the Chairman-one at least shall be a practising barrister or solicitor of five years' standing, two shall be medical commissioners, and one, at least, a woman. The Commissioners have the powers specified in the 2nd and 3rd Schedules to the Mental Treatment Act, 1930, under s. 14 of that Act, together with other powers mentioned in that section, and also the powers and duties of the Lunacy Commissioners which were transferred to the (English) Board by the Mental Deficiency Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 28), s. 25....
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