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Self worship

The idolizing of ones self immoderate self conceit...


Idiolatry

Self worship excessive self esteem...


Place of public worship

Place of public worship, means a place, by whatever name known, which is used as a place of public religious worship or which is dedicated generally to, or is used generally by persons professing any religion or belonging to any religious denomina-tion or any section thereof, for the performance of any religious service, or for offering prayers therein, and includes-(i) all lands and subsidiary shrines appurtenant or attached to any such place.(ii) a privately owned place of worship which is, fact, allowed by the owner thereof to be used as a place of public worship; and(iii) such land or subsidiary shrine appurtenant to such privately owned place of worship as is allowed by the owner thereof to be used as a place of public religious worship. [Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955 (22 of 1955), s. 2 (d)]...


Worship, Place of

Worship, Place of, defined in Stradlng v. Higgins, (1932) 1 Ch 143, for the purposes of the Places of Worship (Enfranchisement) Act, 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 56), which enables trustees of a leasehold interest in places of public worship to enlarge the interest into the freehold in not more than two acres, subject to the provisions of the act.The Places of Worship Sites Act, 1873 (36 & 37 Vict. c. 50), as extended by the Amendment Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 21), enabled sites not exceeding one acre to be conveyed for purposes of worship. See also PUBLIC WORSHIP....


Place of worship

Place of worship, means a temple, mosque, guru-dwara, church, monastery or any other place of public religious worship of any religious denomi-nation or any section thereof, by whatever name called. [Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991 (42 of 1991), s. 2 (c)]...


Worship

Worship, a title of respect applied to a magistrate.1. Any form of religious devotion of service showing reverence for a divine being2. English Law: A little of honour or dignity used in addressing certain magistrates or other high officers, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1601.So far as Hindus are concerned, worship includes the place of worship; and forms in which, this active behaviour and veneration should be expressed and those are all regulated by Agama Sastras, Ramanasramam by its Secretary G. Sambasiva Rao v. Commissioner for Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments, Madras, AIR 1961 Mad 265 (270)....


Public Worship Regulation Act, 1874

Public Worship Regulation Act, 1874 (English) (37 & 38 Vict. c. 85). By this Act'which proceeds on the preamble that it is expedient that in certain cases further regulations should be made for the administration of the laws relating to the performance of divine service according to the use of the Church of England'it was provided that whensoever a vacancy should occur in the office of official principal of the Arches Court of Canterbury (see ARCHES COURT), the judge appointed under that Act should become ex officio such official principal, and all proceedings thereafter taken before the judge in relation to mattes arising within the province of Canterbury should be deemed to be taken in the Arches Court of Canterbury. The Court may be set in motion on representation by one archdeacon, or churchwarden, or any three parishioners declaring themselves to be members of the Church of England: (1) that in any church any alteration in or addition to the fabric, ornaments, or furniture thereof...


self-insure

self-insure : to insure by self-insurance (as in workers' compensation) [an employer wishing to its liability "Pennsylvania Statutes"] vi : to use self-insurance [a governmental agency that s] self-in·sur·er n ...


Self acting

Acting of or by ones self or by itself said especially of a machine or mechanism which is made to perform of or for itself what is usually done by human agency automatic as a self acting feed apparatus a self acting mule a self acting press...


Self government

The act of governing ones self or the state of being governed by ones self self control self command...


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