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Rag Flock. See the (English) Rag Flock Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 52), an Act to prohibit the sale and use for the purpose of the manufacture of certain Articles of unclean flock manufactured from rags. As to the meaning of 'rags,' see Cooper v. Swift, (1914) 1 KB 253; Balmforth v. Chadburn, (1927) 1 KB 663 (ragflock includes new material); and for further decisions on the Act, see Guildford Corporation v. Brown, (1915) 1 KB 256; Cooper v. Evan Cook's Depositories, ibid. 344....
Ragged Schools
Ragged Schools, were exempted from poor and other rates by the Sunday and Ragged Schools Rating (Exemption from Rating) Act, 1869, in which a 'ragged school' means:Any school used for the gratuitous education of children and young persons of the poorest classes, and for the holding of classes and meetings in furtherance of the same object, and without any pecuniary benefit being derived therefrom except to the teacher or teachers employed.The Act also gives the same advantage to Sunday-schools, i.e., schools giving religious instruction to the young without deriving pecuniary profit. Ragged schools have ceased to exist since the establishment of free State education. See EDUCA-TION....
Ragging
Ragging, any disorderly conduct whether by words spoken or written or by an act which has the effect of teasing, treating or handling with rudeness any other student, indulging in rowdy or indisciplined activities which causes or is likely to cause annoyance, hardship or psychological harm or to raise fear or apprehension thereof in a fresher or a junior student or asking the students to do any act or perform something which such student will not do in the ordinary course and which has the effect of causing or generating a sense of shame or embarrassment so as to adversely affect the physique or psyche of a fresher or a junior student. The cause of indulging in ragging is deriving a sadistic pleasure or showing off power, authority or superiority by the seniors over their juniors or freshers, President v. J. Mission v. Cabinet Secretary, AIR 2001 SC 2793 (2794): (2001) 6 SCC 577.Ragging, means the doing of any act which causes, or is likely to cause any physical, physiological harm or ...
Ragged
Rent or worn into tatters or till the texture is broken as a ragged coat a ragged sail...
Shag rag
The unkempt and ragged part of the community...
Paper
Paper, includes vellum parchment or any other material or which an instrument may be written, Rajasthan Stamp Act, 1999, s. 2(xxvi).Paper. As to the paper on which proceedings in the Supreme Court must be printed, see PRINTING.It includes vellum, parchment or any other material on which an instrument may be written. [Indian Stamp Act, 1899, s. 2 (18)]The word 'paper' admittedly not having been defined either in the U.P. Sales Tax Act, 1948 or the rules made thereunder, it has to be understood according to the aforesaid well-established canon of construction in the sense in which persons dealing in and using the article understand it. It is, therefore, necessary to know what is paper as commonly or generally understood. The said word which is derived from the name of reedy plant papyrus and grows abundantly along the Nile river in Egypt is explained in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (volume 2) (Third Edition) as: A substance composed of fibers interlaced into a compact web, made ...
Bunter
A woman who picks up rags in the streets hence a low vulgar woman...
Chiffonier
One who gathers rags and odds and ends a ragpicker...
Clout
A cloth a piece of cloth or leather a patch a rag...
Corallian
A deposit of coralliferous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of the ooumllite called also coral rag...
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