Untouchability - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Untouchability, an attitude or feeling by Hindus of high caste to those of low caste or to non-Hindus, Webster Random House Dictionary, p. 1598.Untouchability, in India it was abolished by a Constitutional provision under the fundamental rights. The Practice of untouchability in any form is forbidden, Constitution of India, Art. 17.Untouchability, is a social disability imposed on certain classes of people by reason of their birth in certain castes, A Commentary on the Constitution of India, Durga Das Basu, Vol. 1, p. 450.Untouchability, the subject matter of the article is not untouchability in the literal or grammatical sense but practices as it has developed historically in India, Jai Singh v. Union of India, AIR 1993 Raj 177 (181). (Constitution of India, Art. 17)...
Intact
Untouched especially by anything that harms defiles or the like uninjured undefiled left complete or entire...
Safe
Free from harm injury or risk untouched or unthreatened by danger or injury unharmed unhurt secure whole as safe from disease safe from storms safe from foes...
Civil rights
Civil rights, means any right accruing to a person by reason of the abolition of 'untouchability' by article 17 of the Constitution. [Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955 (22 of 1955), s. 2 (a)]1. The individual rights of personal liberty guaranteed by the bill of rights as well as by legislation such as the voting Rights Act; civil rights include esp. the right to vote, the right of due process, and the right of equal protection of law, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 240....
Court-leet
Court-leet. [Coke says leet is a Saxon word, and comes from the verb gelathian, or gelethian (g being added euphoni' gratia), i.e., convenire, to assemble together, unde conventus, 4 Inst. 261. For other opinions as to the derivation of the word, see Lex Man. 131; Ritson on Courts-leet; and Scriv. On Copyholds.] This court is expressly kept up by s. 40 of the Sheriffs Act, 1887, though for all but formal purposes it has long since fallen into desuetude, and there is still an annual Court-leet of the Manor and Liberty of Savoy which meets at St. Clement Danes Vestry Hall, the High Steward of the Manor presiding, a jury being empannelled one month aftr Easter and serving for a year from that date, the court being held 'for the purpose of preventing small offences in the nature of a common nuisance,' and still having 'power to impose fines for certain offenes, such the stopping up of ways': Solicitor's Journal,Vol. 49, p. 493.The Court-leet is a court of record appointed to be held once a...
Labourers' dwellings
Labourers' dwellings. Prior to 1890 the following five sets of enactments provided for the erection and maintenance of healthy 'labourers' dwellings,' the first three of the five being materially amended by the (English) Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 72):(1) The (English) Labouring Classes Lodging Houses and Dwelling Houses Acts, 1851, 1866, and 1867. These Acts might be 'adopted' by the town council of a borough and other local authorities. Upon the adoption of the Acts, corporate land might be appropriated and lodging-houses erected thereon, or money might be borrowed by the local authorities for erecting such houses on other land.The (English) Act of 1885 amended the procedure for adopting these Acts, allowed land to be bought for the purpose of the Acts, and allowed separate houses to be erected under the process of the Acts.The (English) Act of 1885 took away from an owner, required to demolish such dwellings, the power which he had under these Acts of...
Nature
Nature, according to Collins English Dictionary means all natural phenomena and plant and animal life as distinct from man and his creations; a wild primitive state untouched by man or civilization, Bhavani Tea and Produce Co. Ltd. v. State of Kerala, (1991) 2 SCC 463 (481). [S. 18(1), prov. C.P.C.] 2. Kind, Order [S. 96(1)(f), E.S.I. Act] 3. Character [S. 13(4)(g), C.S.I. Act.]...
Tenure
Tenure, cannot be equated with 'terms and con-ditions of services' or payment of gravity or pension. Tenure when followed by words of office, means term of office, Punjab University v. Khalsa College, Amritsar, AIR 1971 P&H 479: 1971 Cur LJ 334.Means a right, term, or mode of holding lands or tenements in subordination to a superior; in fendal times, real property was held predominantly as part of a tenure system, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1481.Tenure, the mode of holding property. The only tenures in land now existing with a few unimpor-tant exceptions are (1) free and common socage in fee-simple, including enfranchised copyhold, which is subject to paramount incidents; and (2) a term of years absolute (see LAND). The idea of tenure or holding is said to derive from feudalism, which separated the dominium directum (the dominion of the soil), which it placed mediately, or immediately, in the Crown, from the dominium utile (the possessory title), the right to use the profits ...
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