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Renewal

Renewal, Black's Dictionary, Sixth Edn., defines the word 'renewal' at p. 1299 thus: 'The act of renewing or reviving. A revival or rehabilitation of an expiring subject; that which is made a new or re-established. The substitution of a new right or obligation for another of the same nature. A change of something old to something new. To grant or obtain extension of.' In P. Ramanatha Aiyar's 'The Law Lexicon' (Reprint Edn. 1987), the word 're-newal' is defined at p. 1107 to mean 'a change of something old for something new'. The renewal of a 'licence' means 'a new licence granted by way of renewal'. The renewal of a negotiable bill or note is regarded simply as a prolongation of the original contract. The office of a 'renewal', as it is termed, of a life policy, is to prevent discontinuance or forfeiture. In Provash Chandra Dalui v. Biswanath Banerjee, 1989 Supp (1) SCC 487: (SCC at p. 496) in para 14, this Court drew the distinction between the meaning of the words extension and renew...

Bona fide

In or with good faith without fraud or deceit real or really actual or actually genuine or genuinely as you must proceed bona fide a bona fide purchaser or transaction...

Boogeyman

Something frightful as a specter anything imaginary that causes needless fright something used to excite needless fear also something really dangerous or an imaginary monster used to frighten children etc...

Bugaboo

Something frightful as a specter anything imaginary that causes needless fright something used to excite needless fear also something really dangerous or an imaginary monster used to frighten children etc...

Calaveras skull

A human skull reported by Prof J D Whitney as found in 1886 in a Tertiary auriferous gravel deposit lying below a bed of black lava in Calaveras County California It is regarded as very doubtful whether the skull really belonged to the deposit in which it was found If it did it indicates an unprecedented antiquity for human beings of an advanced type...

Dead pay

Pay drawn for soldiers or others really dead whose names are kept on the rolls...

Dissemble

To hide under a false semblance or seeming to feign something not to be what it really is to put an untrue appearance upon to disguise to mask...

Essentially

In an essential manner or degree in an indispensable degree really as essentially different...

Forcible feeble

Seemingly vigorous but really weak or insipid...

Hyperbole

A figure of speech in which the expression is an evident exaggeration of the meaning intended to be conveyed or by which things are represented as much greater or less better or worse than they really are a statement exaggerated fancifully through excitement or for effect...

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