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Interpretation of Statute

Interpretation of Statute, it is well-settled that in construing the provisions of statute the Courts should be slow to adopt a construction which tends

Separation

contemplate a contingent or future separation it is void, a opposed to the policy of marriage, and the well-being of the community. The concurrence of trustees is not essential, and a deed of separation will be binding

Hire

to put the thing to no other use than that for which it is hired; to use it well; to take care of it; to restore it at the time appointed; to pay the price or hire;

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Bail

the costs of prosecuting which are allowed out of the county rate); and as to all felonies, as well as to the misdemeanours so enumerated, they have a discretionary power either to admit to bail, or to

Hindu

rather than wrong or objectionable, he tends to believe that the highest divine complement each other for the well-being of the world and mankind. Few religious ideas are considered to be finally irreconcilable. The core of religion

hit it off

To get along well together to be compatible to work well together of people in interactive situations as the new chemist hit

Sharp cut

Cut sharply or definitely or so as to make a clear well defined impression as the lines of an engraved plate and the like clear cut hence having great distinctness

A vinculo matrimonii

of which the Courts will not sanction any interpretation, for the meaning of the Legislature cannot be so well explained as by its own direct words, since index animi sermo (language conveys the intention of the mind),

Accomplice

to commit it or aids the other person in planning or committing it, (Wharton's Criminal Law) --it is well-settled that a prosecutrix complaining of having been a victim of the offence of rape is not an accomplice

case

a case that marks a significant turning point on a particular issue lead·ing case : a case so well reasoned and important in the rules of law determined and in the principles declared that it becomes well-known

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