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Standing by

Standing by, sanctioning by silence and inaction. See LYING BY....

Standing, means the status of being qualified to assert or enforce legal rights or duties in a judicial forum because one has a sufficient and protectable interest in the outcome of a justiciable controversy and usually has suffered or is threatened with actual injury, Hawaii's Thousand Friends v. Anderson, 768 P 2d 1293 (1989)....

long standing

existing since a time in the distant past as long standing policies...

standing committee

standing committee : a permanent committee ;esp : one in a house or senate with jurisdiction over legislation in a particular area (as the judiciary or the armed services) ...

Lands on which they stand

Lands on which they stand, the expression 'lands on which they stand' may include the land which is necessary for the efficient user, of the building for the purpose for which it is intended to be used, Kanpur Sugar Works Ltd. v. State of Bihar, AIR 1970 SC 1539 (1541): (1970) 1 SCC 628: (1970) 3 SCR 903....

witness stand

witness stand : stand ...

Stand alone system

Stand alone system, means the electricity system set-up to generate power and distribute electricity in a specified area without connection to grid. [Electricity Act, 2003 (36 of 2003), s. 2(63)]...

cruet stand

a frame for holding cruets a caster a stand for cruets together with the cruets containing various condiments...

Timber

Timber, has an enlarged or restricted sense, according to the connection in which it is employed, and may refer to standing trees or wood suitable for the manufacture of lumber to be used for building and allied purposes, Corpus Juris Secundum, Vol. 54, p. 1.Timber, may be used in a restricted as well as enlarged sense. In the restricted sense it means specified trees like oak, ash, elm, teace, blackwood, ebony etc. and in the enlarged sense it means woods suitable for building, furniture, and carpentry etc., and includes standing trees. Its true meaning has to be determined from the context in which it is employed, Divisional Forest Officer v. Tata Finlay Ltd., AIR 2001 SC 2672. [See also Kerala Grants and Leases (Modification of Rights) Act, 1980, s. 4]Means at common law oak, ash and elm are timber if over twenty years old, but not so old as to have unusable wood in them. Other trees may be timber by the custom of the country. Thus beech is timber by the custom of Buckinghamshire an...

Seduction

Seduction, means the offence that occurs when a man entices a woman of previously chaste character to have unlawful intercourse with him by means of persuasion, solicitation, promises or bribes, or other means not involving force, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1362.The inducing a girl or woman to part with her virtue for the first time, R. v. Moon, (1910) 1 KB 818. An action of seduction may be brought by a parent or person standing in loco parentis for enticing away or debauching of the girl, per quod servitium amisit, but no express contract of service need be proved; see Evans v. Walton, (1867) LR 2 CP 615. There must be a legal right or interest by the plaintiff in the services of the woman who has been seduced, Whitbourne v. Williams, (1901) 2 KB 722. A master also, not standing in the relation of a parent, may maintain this action for debauching his servant. The woman herself has no right of action. In ascertaining the amount of damages, the jury should regard not merely t...

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