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A kind of lottery in which several persons pay in shares the value of something put up as a stake and then determine by chance as by casting dice which one of them shall become the sole possessor...
erecting
the act of building or putting up...
Ballot and Sale Society
Ballot and Sale Society, a building society in which the right to have an advance from the funds of the society free of interest is determined alternately by a ballot among the members and by putting up the right to a sort of auction, the members bidding against each other for the right to the advance and the one who bids the highest obtaining it; see (English) Building Societies Act, 1894, s. 12, prohibiting balloting in the case of societies established since the Act....
Set up
Set up, means a unit cannot be said to have been set up, unless it is ready to discharge the function for which it is being set up. It is only when the unit has been put into such a shape that it can start functioning as a business or a manufacturing organization that it can be said that the unit has been set up. The word 'set up' in the principal clause is equivalent to the word established, CWT Madras v. RS Cotton Mills, AIR 1967 SC 509: (1967) 1 SCJ 123: (1967) 1 ITJ 1: (1967) 1 Andh WR (SC) 25: (1967) 1 Mad LJ (SC) 25: (1967) 63 ITR 478....
Includes
Includes, as (i) to have as contents or part of contents; be made up of or contain; (ii) to add as part of something else; put in as part of a set, group or a category (iii) to contain as a secondary or minor ingredient or element, (Collins Dictionary of English Language).Is used in an interpretation clause, it must be construed as comprehending not only such things as they signify according to their nature and import but also those thing which the interpretation clause declares that they shall include, Scientific Engg. House (P) Ltd. v. C.I.T., (1986) 1 SCC 11: 1986 SCC (Tax) 143.The word 'includes' has different meanings in different contexts. Standard Dictionaries assign more than one meaning to the word 'include'. Webster's Dictionary defines the word 'include' as synonymous with 'comprise' or 'contain'. The Illustrated Oxford Dictionary defines the word 'include' as (i) comprise or contain in as a part of a whole; (ii) treat or regard as so included. The Collins Dictionary of Engl...
Ballot
Ballot [fr. balla, Ital.; balle, Fr.], a little ball or ticket used in giving votes.Means a small ball or ticket used for indicating a vote; the system of choosing persons for office by marking a paper or by drawing papers with names on them from a receptacle; the formal record of a person's vote, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 138.Means a system of voting involving secret votes, Monsanto PLC v. TGWU, (1987) 1 All ER 358; Post Office v. UCW, (1990) 3 All ER 199.Means small ball, ticket or paper used in secret voting, Oxford Concise Dictionary, p. 89.Means a ticket, paper, etc., by which a vote is registered, Webster Dictionary of Law, p. 113.Means drawing of lots used in Parliament to determine the precedence among members desiring a share of Parliamentary time available for certain kinds of business, Parliamentary Dictionary, L.A. Abraham and S.C. Hawtrey, (1956), p. 21.Ballot, in House of Commons ballots are held to allot the limited available in Parliament to private members, Pa...
Compose
To form by putting together two or more things or parts to put together to make up to fashion...
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...
demise
demise de·mised de·mis·ing : to convey (possession of property) by will or lease [the demised premises] n [Anglo-French, from feminine past participle of demettre to convey by lease, from Old French, to put down, give up, renounce, from Latin demittere to let fall and dimittere to release] 1 : the conveyance of property by will or lease : lease 2 : the transmission of property by testate or intestate succession 3 : charter of a boat in which the owner surrenders completely the possession, command, and navigation of the boat called also bareboat charter ...
open
open 1 : exposed to general view or knowledge : free from concealment [an , notorious, continuous, and adverse use of the property] [an and obvious danger] NOTE: When a defect, hazard, or condition is open such that a reasonable person under the circumstances should have recognized the danger posed by it, a defendant is usually relieved of liability for failure to warn. 2 : not restricted to a particular group or category of participants ;specif : enterable by a registered voter regardless of political affiliation [an primary] 3 a : being in effect or operation [an mine] [a bench warrant still ] b : available for use [an toll road] c : not finally determined, decided, or settled : subject to further consideration [an question] d : remaining effective or available for use until canceled [an insurance contract] 4 : not repressed or regulated by legal controls [a state with gambling] vb opened open·ing vt 1 : to begin the process of [ the succession] 2 a : to make the...
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