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Reside

Reside, means dwell permanently or for a considerable time, to have one's settled or usual abode, to live in or at a

Resides

Resides, it contemplates not only permanent residence but also temporary residence. Residence only connotes that a person eats, drinks and sleeps at that place,

Retrospective or retroactive law

new duty, or attaches a new disability, in respect to transactions or considerations already past, Words and Phrases, Permanent Edn., Vol. 37A, pp. 224-225.

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Sanatan dharma

Sanatan dharma, meaning religion which is immutable, constant, living, permanent and ever in existence, Aruna Roy v. Union of India, (2002) 7 SCC 368.

Session, Court of, in Scotland

first division; and the Lord Justice-Clerk and there other ordinary lords form the second division. There are five permanent Lords Ordinary, attached equally to both divisions, the last appointed of whom officiates on the bills, i.e., petitions

Sovereign powers

to accomplish its legitimate ends and purposes. Such powers must exist in all practical Governments. (Words and Phrases, Permanent Edition, Volume 39A) See also Agricultural Produce Market Committee v. Ashok Harikuni, (2000) 8 SCC 61.

Special and special reasons

term 'special' connote? 'Special' means distinguished by some unusual quality; out of the ordinary (See Words and Phrases, Permanent Edition, Volume 39A, p. 82) Webster defines 'special as particular; peculiar; different from others; designed for a particular

State

been used in the ordinary sense so as to include only the territory of the State and the permanent institutions contained therein, State of Rajasthan v. Union of India, AIR 1977 SC 1361: (1977) 3 SCC 592:

Supreme Court of Judicature

and should constitute one Supreme Court of Judicature in England; the said Supreme Court to consist of two permanent Divisions, being 'Her (now His) Majesty's High Court of Justice' and 'Her (now His) Majesty's Court of Appeal.'

Tenement

its original, proper, and legal sense, it signifies everything that may be holden, provided it be of a permanent nature, whether it be of a substantial and sensible, or of an unsubstantial, ideal kind. Thus liberum tenementum,

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