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Prior or previous, may be implied if the contextual situation or the object and design of the legislation demands it, Graphite India Ltd. v. Durgapur Projects Ltd., (1999) 7 SCC 645.The word 'prior' or 'previous' may be implied if the contextual situation or the object and design of the legislation demands it but there are no such compelling circumstances justifying reading any such implication into s. 29(1). On the other hand, the indications are all to the contrary. On a perusal of the several, different sections of the very Act, that the Parliament has not been unmindful of the need to clearly express its intention by using the expression 'previous permission' whenever it was thought that 'previous permission' was necessary. In s. 27(1) and 30, it is to be seen that the expression 'permission' is qualified by the word 'previous' and in ss. 8(1), 8(2) and 31, the expression 'general or special permission' is qualified by the word 'previous', whereas in s.s 13(2), 19(1), 19(4), 20, 21...
Previous
Going before in time being or happening before something else antecedent prior as previous arrangements a previous illness...
prior inconsistent statement
prior inconsistent statement : a witness's statement made out of court prior to testifying that is inconsistent with the witness's testimony and that may be offered to impeach the witness's credibility compare prior consistent statement NOTE: If a prior inconsistent statement was made under oath subject to the penalties of perjury at a previous proceeding (as a deposition or grand jury hearing), the statement is not hearsay under Federal Rule of Evidence 801(d)(1) and may be offered to prove that what was asserted in the statement is true. ...
Prior
Preceding in the order of time former antecedent anterior previous as a prior discovery prior obligation used elliptically in cases like the following he lived alone in the time prior to his marriage...
Cross-examination
Cross-examination, the examination of a witness by the opposite side, generally after examination in chief, but some times without such examination; as in the case of an examination on the voir dire, which is in the nature of a cross-examination (see VOIR DIRE); and also if one party calls a witness,and he is sworn, the other party may cross-examine him, although the party who has called him put no question at all to him. Some times questions in cross-examination are allowed by the judge after re-examination. See RE-EXAMINATION. And if a witness be called to prove some preliminary and collateral matter only, as the handwriting of a document tendered in evidence, he is a witness in the cause, and may be cross-examined as to any of the issues in the cause.As to theform of the cross-examination, leading questions are allowed, which is not the case in examination in chief.The questions must be relevant to the issue (see infra), but great latitude is allowed, as a question seemingly irrelev...
Has been previously issued
Has been previously issued, The words 'has been previously made' do not merely connote the issuing of a notification before the Bihar Town Planning & Improvement Trust Act, 1951 was passed but include all notifications made prior or anterior to the first publication of a notice of an improvement scheme under s. 46 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, Patna Improvement Trust v. Lakshmi Devi, AIR 1963 SC 1077 (1080): (1963) Supp 2 SCR 812. [Bihar Town Planning and Improve-ment Trust Act, 1951 (35 of 1951), Sch. Cl. 2(1)]...
Vaccination
Vaccination, inoculation with the virus of cowpox as a preventive of smallpox. First made compulsory in 1853 by 16 & 17 Vict. c. 100, gratuitous vaccination having been previously provided for in the various enactments, dating from 1840, on the subject prior to 1867, all of which were repealed by the Vaccination Act of that year (30 & 31 Vict. c. 84). By the Act it was provided, inter alia, that the parent of every child born in England should within three months after the birth of such child, or where by reason of the death, illness, absence, or inability of the parent or other cause, any other person should have the custody of such child, 1898 by the (English) Vaccination Act, 1898, and this last Act was itself amended by the (English) Vaccination Act, 1907, in order to give relief to persons having a conscientious objection to vaccination, and s. 1(1) is as follows:-1.-(1) No parent or other person shall be liable to any penalty under s. 29 or s. 31 of the Vaccination Act of 1867 if...
loan
loan 1 a : money lent at interest b : something lent usually for the borrower's temporary use 2 : a transfer or delivery of money from one party to another with the express or implied agreement that the sum will be repaid regardless of contingency and usually with interest ;broadly : the furnishing of something to another party for temporary use with the agreement that it or its equivalent will be returned [the leasing of the vehicle was termed a subject to usury statutes] bridge loan : a short-term loan used as a means of financing a purchase or enterprise prior to obtaining other funds [used a bridge loan to purchase a new home prior to the sale of their previous one] con·ven·tion·al loan [kən-ven-chə-nəl-] : a loan for the purchase of real property that is secured by a first mortgage on the property rather than by any federal agency demand loan : a loan that is subject to repayment upon demand of the lender home equity loan : a loan or line o...
Preremote
More remote in previous time or prior order...
Adultery
Adultery [ad. Lat., and alter, another person], anciently termed Advowtry (quasi ad alterius thorum). The sin of incontinence between two married persons, or it may be where only one of them is married, in which case it may be called single adultery to distinguish it from the other, which has sometimes been called double.By the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857, which created a Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes (superseding the Ecclesiastical Court) which would grant to the innocent party a divorce a mensa et thoro on the ground of the other's adultery, a husband could obtain a dissolution of his marriage (before that Act, only obtainable and not infrequently obtained by a private Act of Parliament) upon the ground of his wife's adultery, and a wife could obtain a judicial separation on the ground of her husband's adultery, or a dissolution of marriage on the ground of his adultery coupled with cruelty or desertion or bigamy, or of his incestuous adultery, provided there be...
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