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Personal liberty

Personal liberty, in Art. 21 of the Constitution of India takes in the right of locomotion and to travel abroad and no person can be deprived of his right to travel except according to procedure established by law, Satwant Singh v. A.P.O., New Delhi, AIR 1967 SC 1836.In England right to personal liberty means in substance a person's right not to be subjected to imprisonment, arrest or physical coercion in any manner that does not admit of legal justification; secured by the strict maintenance of the principle that no man can be arrested or imprisoned except in due course of law, Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution, A.V. Dicey, 2003, pp. 207, 208.Means in ordinary language liberty relating to or concerning the person or body of the individual and personal liberty in this sense is the antitheses of physical restraint or coercion. 'Personal liberty means right not be subjected to imprisonment, arrest or other physical coercion in any manner that does not admit of lega...

Pedlars

Pedlars, certificated persons who travel about offering their goods or skill in handicraft for sale, between whom and hawkers there is the statutory distinction that the hawker travels with a horse, whereas the pedlar does not. See HAWKERS AND PEDLARS, and Pedlars Acts, 1871 and 1881....

Pass

Pass, means an authority given by the Central Government or a railway administration to a person allowing him to travel as a passenger, but does not include a ticket. [Railways Act, 1989 (24 of 1989), s. 2 (28)]The word 'passes' as it occurs in s. 5(1) of the Estate Duty Act, 1953 means 'charges hands', Controller of Estate Duty v. Usha Devi Patankar, AIR 1969 MP 229 (232). [Estates Duty Act, 1953, s. 5 (11)]Means an authority given by the metro railway administration or by an officer appointed by that administration in this behalf, to a person allowing him to travel as a passenger on the metro railway, but does not include a ticket. [Delhi Metro Railway (Operation and Maintenance) Act, 2002, s. 2(n)]...

Foreign exchange

Foreign exchange, means foreign currency and includes--(i) deposits, credits and balances payable in any foreign currency,(ii) drafts, travellers cheques, letters of credit or bills of exchange, expressed or drawn in Indian currency but payable in any foreign currency,(iii) drafts, travellers cheques, letters of credit or bills of exchange drawn by banks, institutions or persons outside India, but payable in Indian currency. [Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 (42 of 1999), s. 2 (n)]The process of making international monetary trans-actions; esp. the conversion of one currency to that of a different country, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....

Any person

Any person, the effect of the 1994 amendment on s. 147 is unambiguous. Where earlier, the words 'any person' could be held not to include the owner of the goods or his authorised representative travelling in the goods vehicle, Parliament has now made it clear that such a construction is no longer possible. The scope of this rationale does not, however, extend to cover the class of cases where gratuitous passengers for whom no insurance policy was envisaged, and for whom no insurance premium was paid, employed the goods vehicle as a medium of conveyance, National Insurance Co. Ltd. v. Baljit Kaur, (2004) 2 SCC 1 (5): AIR 2004 SC 1340. [Motor Vehicles Act, s. 147(1)(b) (as amended in 1994)]The expression 'any person' can be restricted to those on the managerial or administrative staff only. One cannot arbitrarily cut down the amplitude of an expression used by the legislature, Central Bank of India v. Workmen, AIR 1960 SC 12 (23): (1960) 1 SCR 200. (Banking Regulation Act, 1949, s. 10)Th...

Peddler

One who peddles a traveling trader one who travels about retailing small wares a hawker...

Paracelsus

Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus originally Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim also called Theophrastus Paracelsus and Theophrastus von Hohenheim Born at Maria Einsiedeln in the Canton of Schwyz Switzerland Dec 17 or 10 Nov 1493 died at Salzburg Sept 23 or 24 1541 A celebrated German Swiss physician reformer of therapeutics iatrochemist and alchemist He attended school in a small lead mining district where his father William Bombast von Hohenheim was a physician and teacher of alchemy The family originally came from Wuumlrtemberg where the noble family of Bombastus was in possession of the ancestral castle of Hohenheim near Stuttgart until 1409 He entered the University of Basel at the age of sixteen where he adopted the name Paracelsus after Celsius a noted Roman physician But he left without a degree first going to Wurtzburg to study under Joannes Trithemius Abbot of Sponheim 1462 1516 a famous astrologer and alchemist who initiated him into the mysteries of alchemy He then spent many...

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