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Home Dictionary Name: worshipPlace of public worship
Place of public worship, means a place, by whatever name known, which is used as a place of public religious worship or which is dedicated generally to, or is used generally by persons professing any religion or belonging to any religious denomina-tion or any section thereof, for the performance of any religious service, or for offering prayers therein, and includes-(i) all lands and subsidiary shrines appurtenant or attached to any such place.(ii) a privately owned place of worship which is, fact, allowed by the owner thereof to be used as a place of public worship; and(iii) such land or subsidiary shrine appurtenant to such privately owned place of worship as is allowed by the owner thereof to be used as a place of public religious worship. [Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955 (22 of 1955), s. 2 (d)]...
Worship, Place of
Worship, Place of, defined in Stradlng v. Higgins, (1932) 1 Ch 143, for the purposes of the Places of Worship (Enfranchisement) Act, 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 56), which enables trustees of a leasehold interest in places of public worship to enlarge the interest into the freehold in not more than two acres, subject to the provisions of the act.The Places of Worship Sites Act, 1873 (36 & 37 Vict. c. 50), as extended by the Amendment Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 21), enabled sites not exceeding one acre to be conveyed for purposes of worship. See also PUBLIC WORSHIP....
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)]...
Worship
Worship, a title of respect applied to a magistrate.1. Any form of religious devotion of service showing reverence for a divine being2. English Law: A little of honour or dignity used in addressing certain magistrates or other high officers, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1601.So far as Hindus are concerned, worship includes the place of worship; and forms in which, this active behaviour and veneration should be expressed and those are all regulated by Agama Sastras, Ramanasramam by its Secretary G. Sambasiva Rao v. Commissioner for Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments, Madras, AIR 1961 Mad 265 (270)....
Public Worship Regulation Act, 1874
Public Worship Regulation Act, 1874 (English) (37 & 38 Vict. c. 85). By this Act'which proceeds on the preamble that it is expedient that in certain cases further regulations should be made for the administration of the laws relating to the performance of divine service according to the use of the Church of England'it was provided that whensoever a vacancy should occur in the office of official principal of the Arches Court of Canterbury (see ARCHES COURT), the judge appointed under that Act should become ex officio such official principal, and all proceedings thereafter taken before the judge in relation to mattes arising within the province of Canterbury should be deemed to be taken in the Arches Court of Canterbury. The Court may be set in motion on representation by one archdeacon, or churchwarden, or any three parishioners declaring themselves to be members of the Church of England: (1) that in any church any alteration in or addition to the fabric, ornaments, or furniture thereof...
Disturbance of divine worship
Disturbance of divine worship, an offence against the public peace. See BRAWLING....
Temple
Temple, is as 'an edifice or place regarded primarily as the dwelling place or 'house' of a deity; hence an edifice devoted to divine worship. Historically, the word is applied to sacred buildings of Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, etc., but now to those of Hindu-ism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Shintoism, etc.' The essence of the matter is the existence of a place of public religious worship. In the case of a temple, it becomes a place of public religious worship when the idol is installed and consecrated and the pranaprathishta or vivification ceremony is performed. 'Until then, it is elementary knowledge that the image does not become an object of worship. The deity does not begin to reside in the Idol (the visible image) until the consecration or the appropriate ceremony is completed, T.V.D. Naidu v. Commissioner, Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (Administration) Department, Madras, AIR 1989 Mad 60. (See also New English Dictionary, Vol. IX, Part II)Means a place, by whatev...
Religion
Religion, in a wide sense, therefore, is those fundamental principles which sustain life and without which life will not survive, Aruna Roy v. Union of India, (2002) 7 SCC 368.Religion, in Australia, the Constitution gives right to a person to follow his own religious belief and can freely exercise his religion, A Commentary on the Constitution of India, Durga Das Basu, Vol. D, p. 198.Religion, in Sri Lanka, the Constitution guarantees a citizen freedom of religion subject to the restrictions prescribed by law in the interest of national unity, integrity and security, A Commentary on the Constitution of India, Durga Das Basu, Vol. D, p. 200.Religion, in U.K., the Protestant Church headed by the Crown is by law established and built into the fabric of the English Constitution. The State has accepted the Protestant Church as a religious body reflecting the Christian faith, A Commentary on the Constitution of India, Durga Das Basu, Vol. D, p. 200.Religion, is a matter of faith stemming fr...
Hindu
Hindu, The historical and etymological genesis of the word 'Hindu' has given rise to a controversy amongst ideologists; but the view generally accepted by scholars appears to be that the word 'Hindu' is derived from the river Sindhu otherwise known as Indus which flows from the Punjab. 'That part of the great Aryan race', says Monier Williams, 'which immigrated from Central Asia, through the mountain passes into India, settled first in the districts near the river Sindhu (now called the Indus). The Persians pronounced this word Hindu and named their Aryan brethren Hindus. The Greeks, who probably gained their first ideas of India from the Persians, dropped the hard aspirate, and called the Hindus 'Indoi'. ('Hindulsm' by Monler Williams, p.1.)'. The Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. VI, has described 'Hinduism' as the title applied to that form of religion which prevails among the vast majority of the present population of the Indian Empire (p. 686). As Dr. Radhakrishnan has obs...
Uniformity, Act of
Uniformity, Act of, (English) 14 Car. 2, c. 4, 'for the Uniformity of Public Prayers and Administration of Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies and for establishing the Form of making, ordaining, and consecrating Bishops, Priests, and Deacons of the Church of England' (now partly repealed), received the Royal Assent on May 19, 1662 and came into operation on August 24 (the feast of St. Bartholomew) following (see Lane's Notes on English Church History).After a long preamble setting forth the preparation of the Prayer Book by several Bishops and other Divines appointed by the King, its approval by the two Convocations, and stating that 'nothing more conduceth to the peace of this nation, nor to the honour of our religion and the propagation thereof, than an universal agreement in the public worship of Almighty God.' The Act directs that:All and singular ministers in any cathedral, collegiate or parish church or chapel or other place of public worship within this realm of England, d...
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