Temple - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: temple Page: 4Religious charity
Religious charity, clause (13) of s. 6 defines 'religious charity' as meaning 'a public charity associated with a Hindu festival or observance of a religious character, whether it be connected with a math or temple or not', Commissioner v. Narayana Ayyangar, AIR 1965 SC 1916 (1917): (1965) 3 SCR 168. [T.N. Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Act, 1951 s. 6(13)]...
Glorification
Glorification, in relation to sati, whether such sati was committed before or after the commencement of this Act, includes, among other things,--(i) the observance of any ceremony the taking out of a procession in connection with the commission of sati; or(ii) the supporting, justifying or propagating the practice of sati in any manner; or(iii) the arranging of any function to eulogise the person who has committed sati, or(iv) the creation of a trust, or the collection of funds or the construction of a temple or other structure or the carrying on of any form of worship or the performance of any ceremony threat, with a view to perpetuate the honour of, or to preserve the memory of, a person who has committed sati. [Commission of Sati (Prevention) Act, 1987 (3 of 1988), s. 2 (1) (b)]...
Guardian
Guardian, means a person having the care of the person of a minor or his property or of both his person and property, and includes:(i) a natural guardian,(ii) a guardian appointed by the will of the minor's father or mother,(iii) a guardian appointed or declared by court, and(iv) a person empowered to act as such by or under any enactment relating to any court of wards;Explanation.--For the purposes of this clause, any name which is not the name of a country, region or locality of that country shall also be considered as the geographical indication if it relates to a specifies geographical area and is used upon or in relation to particular goods originating from that country, region or locality, as the case may be. [Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956 (32 of 1956), s. 4(b)]A guardian is one appointed by the wisdom and policy of the law to take care of a person and his affairs, who by reason of his imbecility and want of understanding is incapable of acting for his own interest (2...
Institutions
Institutions. It was the object of Justinian to comprise in his Code and Digest, or Pandects, a complete body of law. But these works were not adapted to the purposes of elementary instruction, and the writings of the ancient jurists were no longer allowed to have any authority, except so far as they had been incorporated in the digest, Smith's Dict. of Antiq. It was therefore necessary to prepare an elementary treatise, and the Institutes were published a month before the Pandects, A.D. 533, and designed as an elementary introduction to legal study (legum cunabula). The work was divided into four books, subdivided into titles.The Institutes are the elements of the Roman Law, and were composed at the command of the Emperor Justinian, by Trebonian, Dorotheus, and The ophilus, who took them from the writings of the ancient lawyers, and chiefly from those of Gaius especially from his Institutes and his books called Aureorum (i.e., of important matters).The Institutes are divided into four...
Judgment
Judgment [fr. judgment, Fr.], judicial determination; decision of a Court.Under the former practice of the superior Courts, this term was usually applied only to the Common Law Courts, the term 'decree' being in general use in the Court of Chancery. The expression 'Judg-ment,' however, is now used generally except in matrimonial causes, the term 'judgment' including 'decree' [(English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 225, replacing Jud. Act,1873, s. 100].The several species of judgments are either:-(a) Interlocutory, given in the course of a cause, upon some plea, proceeding, or default, which is only intermediate, and does not finally determine or complete the action. See INQUIRY; SUMMONSES; and ORDERS; and the various titles of the subjects of such judgments as MANDAMUS; INJUNC-TION, etc.(b) Final, putting an end to the action by an award of redress to one party, or discharge of the other, as the case may be.By the (English) C.L.P. Act,1852, s. 120, a plaintiff or defendant having obtained a verd...
Pagoda
Pagoda, a temple; also a gold coin in the south of India valued at 8s, Indian.,...
Person having interest
Person having interest, means a disciple of the math or a person professing the Hindu religious or Sikh faith to which the math belongs, Mahant Sri Regunath Das v. Commissioner of Hindu Religious Endowment, (1986) 61 Cut LT 189 (Ori).The definition of the expression 'person having interest' in s. 2(10), (as amended in 1953) which is an inclusive one, and includes the suit brought by two or more trustees in the name of the idol, to recover possession of its property against a person holding it adversely to the trust from the purview of s. 50(ii) of the Act. That expression is wide enough to include not merely the beneficiaries of a temple, math, wakf etc. but also the trustees, Shree Gollaleshwar Dev v. Gangawwa Kom Shantayya Math, AIR 1986 SC 231: (1985) 4 SCC 393: (1985) Supp 3 SCR 646: (1986) Mah LR 220 (SC). [Bombay Public Trusts Act, 1950, s. 2 (10) 50 (ii) (a) and 51(1)]...
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)]...
Property
Property, an actionable claim against the tenants is undoubtedly a species of property which is assignable, State of Bihar v. Kameshwar Singh, AIR 1952 SC 252.Comprises every form of tangible property, even intangible, including debts and chooses in action such as unpaid accumulation of wages, pension, cash grants, and constitutionally protected privy purse, See M.M. Pathak v. Union of India, AIR 1978 SC 802.Decree is to be treated as property, Associated Hotels of India v. Jodha Mal Kuthiala, AIR 1950 Punj 201.Every movable property is included in the ordinary connotation of the word 'property', Chunni Lal v. State, AIR 1968 Raj 70.In commercial law this may carry its ordinary meaning of the subject-matter of ownership. But elsewhere, as in the sale of goods it may be used as a synonym for ownership and lesser rights in goods, Dictionary of Commercial Law by A.H. Hudson, (1983, Edn.).In Entry 42, List III (Constitution of India) includes the power to legislate for acquisition of an un...
Pythian
Of or pertaining to Delphi to the temple of Apollo or to the priestess of Apollo who delivered oracles at Delphi...
- << Prev.
- Next >>