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Means of livelihood

Mohun Ram, AIR 1970 SC 1022: (1970) 3 SCC 177. [H.P. Abolition of Big Landed Estates and Land Reforms Act, 1954, s. 11 (2)]

Name

Name [fr. nomen, Lat.; nom, Fr.; or namo, Goth.; nama, Sax.; naem, Dut.], the discriminative appellation of an individual. Proper names are either Christian names, as being given at baptism, or surnames, from the father, 4...

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infant, but the Married Women's Property Act, 1882, s. 1, sub-s. (2) ([repealed, reproduced and extended by Law Reform (Married Women and Tortfeasors) Act, 1935, s. 1], by allowing a married woman to sue in all respects

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Obdurate legal obscurantism

Obdurate legal obscurantism, Hardened (stubborn) tendency to oppose enquiry, enlightenment or reform, '...the obdurate legal obscurantism of litigants leads to protraction of proceedings' [Jas Raj v. Hem Raj, AIR 1977

Organised crime

to be felt and dealt with by all concerned including the judiciary, the executive, the politicians, the social reformers, the intelligentsia and the law enforcing agency, State of Maharashtra v. Bharat Chaganlal Raghani, (2001) 9 SCC 1.

Papist

the 36th Article of Religion maintain the supreme ecclesiastical power of the sovereign. From the date of the Reformation Papists, either under that title or under the title of persons professing the Popish religion, or of Popish

Protector of the settlement

of the (English) Married Woman's Property Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 18), as amended by the Law Reform (M. W. & T.) Act, 1935 (25 & 26 Geo.5, c. 30). The office of Protector is not

Passenger

seating accommodation provided or by stranding in vehicles where travel by standing is specially permitted. Any person who reforms the journey in the bus will be a passenger. He will continue to be a passenger even at

Permanent malikana

Permanent malikana, see, State of Bihar v. Maharaja Pratap Singh Bahadur, AIR 1969 SC 164. [Bihar Land Reforms Act 1950 (30 of 1950), s. 24A]

Permissive possession

Pratap Singh v. Dy. Director of Consolidation, (2000) 4 SCC 614 (622). [Uttar Pradesh Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950, ss. 209, 18 and 14 and Entry 30 in App. III]

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