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Home Dictionary Name: sexBut for sex
But for sex, in English law 'but for sex' test has been developed to mean that no less favourable treatment is to be given to women on gender-based criterion which would favour the opposite sex and women will not be deliberately selected for less favourable treatment because of their sex, Air India Cabin Crew Asson v. Yeshaswinee Merchant, (2003) 6 SCC 277 (302)....
Sexed
Belonging to sex having sex distinctively male of female as the sexed condition...
sex discrimination
sex discrimination : discrimination based on sex and esp. against women ...
same-sex harassment
same-sex harassment The type of sexual harassment that occurs when a male sexually harasses a male, or a female sexually harasses a female. ...
same-sex marriage
same-sex marriage ...
Actio non accrevit infra sex annos
Actio non accrevit infra sex annos, the name of the plea of the Statute of Limitations when the defendant alleges that the plaintiff's action has not accrued within six years, See LIMITATIONS, STATUTE OF....
Non assumpsit infra sex annos
Non assumpsit infra sex annos (he did not promise within six years). this was the form of pleading the Statute of Limitations. See LIMITATION and PLEADING....
Sexual
Of or pertaining to sex or the sexes distinguishing sex peculiar to the distinction and office of male or female relating to the distinctive genital organs of the sexes proceeding from or based upon sex as sexual characteristics sexual intercourse connection or commerce sexual desire sexual diseases sexual generation...
Woman
Woman, the word 'woman' denotes a female human being of any age. (Indian Penal Code, s. 10)By the (English) Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 1, reproducing 13 & 14 Vict. c. 21, s. 3, words in any Act of Parliament passed after 1850 importing the masculine gender include females unless the contrary intention appears. Women became qualified to be registered as apothecaries by the Apothecaries Amendment Act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 34), s. 5; as surgeons by the College of Surgeons Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 43), s. 2; and as medical practitioners by the Medical Amendment Act, 1876 (39 & 40 Vict. c. 41), s. 1, and see infra.The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act, 1919, s. 1, provides that a person shall not be disqualified by sex or marriage from the exercise of any public function, or from being appointed to or holding any civil or judicial office or post, or from entering or assuming or carrying on any civil profession or vocation, or for admission to any incorporated society (whether incorp...
Obscene
Obscene, means if there be no abstract definition ........ Should not the word 'obscene' be allowed to indicate the present critical point in the compromise between candor and shame at which the community may have arrived here and now, United States v. Kennerley, 209 F 119 (121) (S.D.N.Y. 1913).Obscene, the Indian Penal Code borrowed the word from the English Statute. The Common law offence of obscenity was established in England three hundred years ago when Sir Charles Sedley exposed his person to the public gaze on the balcony of a tavern. Obscenity in books, however, was punishable only before the spiritual courts because it was so held down to 1708 in which year Queen v. Read, 11 Mod 205 QB, was decided, In 1727 in the case against one Curl it was ruled for the first time that it was a Common Law offence, Ranjit D. Udeshi v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1965 SC 881 (887): (1965) 1 SCR 65. (Indian Penal Code, s. 292)The concept of obscenity would differ from country to country dependin...
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