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To move from a lower position to a higher to ascend to mount up Specifically a To go upward by walking climbing flying or any other voluntary motion as a bird rises in the air a fish rises to the bait...
low rise
Lower than the highest heights used of buildings of one or only a few stories as a low rise apartment building...
Rising
Attaining a higher place taking or moving in an upward direction appearing above the horizon ascending as the rising moon...
High-rise building
High-rise building, means any multi-storeyed building above five floors. [The Kolkata Land Revenue Act, 2003, s. 2(e)]...
Nuisance
Nuisance [fr. nuire, Fr., to hurt], something noxious of offensive. Any unauthorised act which, without direct physical interference, materially impairs the use and enjoyment by another of his property, or prejudicially affects his health, comfort, or convenience, is a nuisance.Nuisance may be distinguished from negligence in that nuisance is an act or omission causing injury, the injury itself giving rise to an action for damages, while a person suffering from damage due to negligence must prove that the damage was caused by some want of care, according to its degree which was required in the particular circumstances of the case. Actions against persons or public undertakings for damage under statutory powers are generally founded on negligence. Where the actual method of exercising the power creating a nuisance is indicated by the statute negligence in the authorised method may be actionable. The onus appears to be on a defendant pleading that the nuisance was inevitable and compulso...
breach
breach 1 a : a violation in the performance of or a failure to perform an obligation created by a promise, duty, or law without excuse or justification breach of duty : a breach of a duty esp. by a fiduciary (as an agent or corporate officer) in carrying out the functions of his or her position breach of trust : a breach by a trustee of the terms of a trust (as by stealing from or carelessly mishandling the funds) breach of warranty : a breach by a seller of the terms of a warranty (as by the failure of the goods to conform to the seller's description or by a defect in title) NOTE: A seller may be liable for a breach of warranty even without any negligence or misconduct. b : failure without excuse or justification to fulfill one's obligations under a contract called also breach of contract compare repudiation an·tic·i·pa·to·ry breach : a breach of contract that occurs as a result of a party's anticipatory repudiation of the contract ef·fi·c...
Cosmically
With the sun at rising or setting as a star is said to rise or set cosmically when it rises or sets with the sun...
Adjournment Motion
Adjournment Motion, means a motion for discussing 'a specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration'. Wilding and Laundry, the Office of the Speaker in Parliament of Commonwealth, p. 247. 'Adjourn motion' is a motion which can be moved by any member of the House and is in the nature of emergency motion of censure upon the government. Wilding and Laundry -- The Office of the Speaker in Parliament of Commonwealth, p. 9.The object is to draw the attention of the Govern-ment to a matter of urgent public importance so as to criticize the decision of Government in an urgent matter in regard to which a motion or resolution with proper notice will be too late. Kaul and Shakdher -- Practice and Procedure of Parliament, 5th Edn., 2001, p. 496.If the Speaker gives his consent after satisfying himself that the matter to be raised is definite urgent and of public importance and holds that the matter proposed to be discussed is in order, he shall call the member concerned who sh...
Dearness allowance
Dearness allowance, it is inextricably intertwined with price rise, it being an attempt to compensate loss in real wages on account of price rise considered as a passing phenomenon by compensation, Workmen Employed by M/s. Indian Oxygen Ltd. v. Indian Oxygen Ltd., AIR 1986 SC 125: (1985) SCR 111.The whole purpose of dearness allowance being to neutralise a portion of the increase in the cost of living, it should ordinarily be on a sliding scale and provide for an increase on rise in the cost of living and a decrease on a fall in the cost of living. 1961 (2) LLJ 352 quoted, Hindustan Times v. Their Workmen, AIR 1963 SC 1333 (1338)....
insurgent
insurgent 1 : a person who rises in revolt against civil authority or an established government ;esp : one not recognized as a belligerent 2 : one that acts contrary to the established leadership (as of a political party, union, or corporation) or its decisions and policies adj : rising in opposition to civil or political authority or against an established government ...
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