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Home Dictionary Name: prePre-natal diagnostic techniques
Pre-natal diagnostic techniques, includes all pre-natal diagnostic procedures and pre-natal dia-gnostic tests. [Pre Conception and Pre-Natal Dia-gnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994 (5 of 1994), s. 2 (j)]...
Pre-natal diagnostic procedures
Pre-natal diagnostic procedures, means all gynae-cological or obsterical or medical procedures such as ultrasonography foetoscopy, taking or removing samples of amniotic fluid, chorionic villi, blood or any tissue of a pregnant woman for being sent to a Genetic Laboratory or Genetic Clinic for conduct-ing pre-natal diagnostic test. [Pre Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994 (57 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...
Pre-contract
Pre-contract. Where one of the parties to a marriage was under a prior agreement to marry a third person, such prior agreement was called a pre-contract. It was a canonical impediment to the marriage of either party. The Ecclesiastical Courts would formerly enforce this agreement, by compelling the parties to a public marriage, and if one of them had already married, such marriage would be void ab initio; but until thus avoided it was good. See 32 Hen. 8, c. 28, and 2 & 3 Edw. 6, c. 23, s. 2; Bishop on Marriage and Divorce, s. 53. But pre-contract is no longer a cause for dissolving a marriage in England; see 26 Geo. 2, c. 33; Co. Litt. 79 b, and Hargrave's note (4)....
Pre-emption, Right of
Pre-emption, Right of, the power of buying a thing before others, as superfluous lands under the (English) Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, s. 128, which must before sale be offered to the persons from whom they were originally taken, or to the adjoining owners; as to registration of contracts or deeds giving the right of pre-emption as estate contracts, see (English) Land Charges Act, 1925, s. 10. Compare the right of pre-emption which a county council has by virtue of s. 12 (4) of the Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908. Also, a privilege formerly allowed to the royal purveyor, but abolished by 12 Car. 2, c. 24. See OPTION TO PURCHASE....
Pre-natal diagnostic test
Pre-natal diagnostic test, means ultrasonography or any test or analysis of amniotic fluid, chorionic villi, blood or any tissue of a pregnant woman conducted to detect genetic or metabolic disorders or chromosomal abnormalities or congenital anomalies or haemoglobinopathies or sex-linked disease. [Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Technique (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994 (57 of 1994), s. 2 (k)]...
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 ...
Continuance or possible recurrence of which is pre-judicial to the health or safety of the public
Continuance or possible recurrence of which is pre-judicial to the health or safety of the public, If it appears to a coroner, either before he proceeds to hold an inquest or in the course of an inquest begun without a jury, that there is a reason to suspect....(d) that the death occurred in circum-stances the continuance or possible recurrence of which is pre judicial to the health or safety of the public or any section or the public, he shall proceed to summon a jury in the manner required by sub-s. (2), R (Takoushis) v. Inner North London Coroner (CA), (2006) 1 WLR 461 [Coroners Act, 1988 (C 13), s. 8(3)(d)]...
Pre-emption
Pre-emption, the word 'pre-emption' is a well understood is a term of law. It is a right of substitution conferred on someone either by statute, custom or contract. The right is to step into the shoes of the vendee preferentially, on the terms of sale already settled between the vendor and the vendee, Vijaylakshami v. B. Himantharaja Chetty, (1996) 9 SCC 376 (381): (1996) 3 Sim LJ 1969....
pre-
pre- 1 a : earlier than : prior to : before [premarital] [prejudgment] b : preparatory or prerequisite to [prehearing] 2 : in advance : beforehand [prepay] ...
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