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Dowry

include dower or mahr in the case of persons to whom the Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) applies. [Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 (28 of 1961), s. 2] The word 'dowry' in, s. 304B has to be understood as

Firearms

lend to such person, a firearm or ammunition. The manufacture, sale, etc., of weapons discharging noxious fluids is prohibited save by authority of Admiralty, Army or Air Council; see s. 6 of the 1920 Act, which Act

Magna Carta

subjects:-Chapter three related to the wardship of an infant heir of an earl, baron, or knight; chapter four prohibited the guardian from wasting the lands of his ward, and from destroying his tenants, a plain indication of

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Writ

actions see EXECUTION, ELEGIT, FIERI FACIAS, POSSESSION, and VENDITIONI EXPONAS. For writs not in actions, see CERTIORARI, MANDAMUS, PROHIBITION, and QUO WARRANTO. A court's written order, in the name of a state or other competent legal authority,

Wear, or Weir

twigs of osier, and accommodated for the taking of fish, or to convey a stream to a mill. Prohibited by Magna Charta and other early statutes in navigable rivers, Lord Leconfield v. Earl of Lonsdale, (1870) LR

Tobacco

Tobacco. The growth of tobacco was formerly prohibited in any part of the United Kingdom, and any person growing it was liable to a penalty of

Smuggling

Smuggling, the offence of importing prohibited Articles, or of defrauding the revenue by the introduction of Articles into consumption without paying the duties chargeable

Smoking

of cigarette, cigar, beedies or otherwise with the aid of pipe, wrapper, or any other instrument. [West Bengal Prohibition of Smoking and Spitting and Protection of Health of Non-Smokers and Minors Act, 2001, s. 2(7)]

Regulation

Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy Act, 2002, s. 2(r)] The expression 'regulation' in a given case may amount to prohibition, Talcher Municipality v. Talcher Regulated Market Committee, (2004) 6 SCC 178 (181). (Orissa Municipalities Act, 1950) The act

Levitical degrees

Levitical degrees, degrees of kindred within which persons are prohibited to marry. They are set forth in the eighteenth chapter of Leviticus. By 32 Hen. 8, c. 38,

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