Reception - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: receptionReception order
Reception order. No person, not being a a rate-aided poor person or a person of unsound mind so found by inquisition, can be received or detained as a per-son of unsound mind except under the authority of (1) a reception order, or (2) an urgency order (q.v.), or (3) a summary reception order (q.v.) [(English) Lunacy Act, 1890, ss. 1, 9, 13]. Ss. 21 and 22 provide exceptions in the case of emergency, etc., and of friends and relatives taking charge. A reception order can only be made by a judicial authority, i.e., a justice of the peace specially appointed, a county court judge, a stipendiary magistrate, or by two commissioners in lunacy (ibid., ss. 1, 9, 10 and 23). It is only effective for one year unless extended [(English) Lunacy Act, 1891, s. 7), and by s. 36 (3) of the Act, 1890, it ceases to be of any force unless the patient has been received thereunder before the expiration of seven days from its date. As to the reception of feebleminded and mentally defective persons, see the ...
Reception
The act of receiving receipt admission as the reception of food into the stomach the reception of a letter the reception of sensation or ideas reception of evidence...
Improper reception, refusal or rejection
Improper reception, refusal or rejection, When it is said that there is improper refusal of any vote it implies again two things, viz., a vote which ought to have been accepted as valid vote has been improperly refused as an invalid vote. The expression 'refuse to accept' and the expression 'reception' implies 'refusal' implies 'refuse to reject', S. Raghbir Singh Gill v. S. Gurcharan Singh Tohra, AIR 1980 SC 1362: (1980) Supp SCC 53: (1980) 3 SCR 1302....
Receptibility
The quality or state of being receptible receivableness...
Receptive
Having the quality of receiving able or inclined to take in absorb hold or contain receiving or containing as a receptive mind...
Receptiveness
The quality of being receptive...
Receptivity
The state or quality of being receptive...
Reception
Reception, implies 'refuse to reject', S. Raghbir Singh Gill v. S. Gurcharan Singh Tohra, (2003) 5 SCC 647....
Entertainment
The act of receiving as host or of amusing admitting or cherishing hospitable reception also reception or treatment in general...
Recipience
The quality or state of being recipient a receiving reception receptiveness...
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