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Sleepful

Strongly inclined to sleep very sleepy

Dorture

Dorture [ contracted from dormiture], a dormitory of a convent; a place to sleep in.

determining if a building is such a house is whether it is used regularly as a place to sleep, Narasimha Murthy v. Susheelabai, (1996) 3 SCC 644 (660). (Hindu Succession Act, 1956, s. 23) Includes any building

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Dwelling place

place, primarily the expression means 'residence', 'abode' or 'home' where an individual is supposed usually to live and sleep and since the expression has been used in a Taxing Statute in the context of a provision which

Narcotic drug, Narcotic

substance (other than alcohol) which when swallowed or inhaled by, or injected into, a human being induces drowsiness, sleep, stupefaction or insensibility in the human being and includes all alkaloids of opium, State of Gujarat v. Suhrid

Narcotic drugs

Narcotic drugs, the word 'narcotic' is a substance which relieves pain, produces sleep, and in large doses brings on stupor, coma, and even death, as opium, hemlock, alcohol etc., Indian Chemical

Nuisance

injury, danger, annoyance or offence to the sense of sight, smell or hearing or disturbance to rest or sleep, or which is or maybe dangerous to life or injurious to health or property. [The Cantonments Act, 1924,

Overcrowding

deemed for the purposes of the Act to be overcrowded at any time when the number of persons sleeping in the house either. (a) is such that any two of those persons being 10 years old or

Residence

as entrusted to the curate. Ordinary meaning.--The word 'resides' denotes 'the place where an individual eats, drinks, and sleeps, or where his family or his servants eat, drink, and sleep' [per Bayley, J., in R. v. Inhabitants

Wakening

Wakening, a citation narrating that a complainer has raised a summons which he had let sleep for a year and a day, concluding that all persons cited on the first should compare, hear, and

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