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Corporation of Calcutta and anr. Vs. Liberty Cinema

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1965SC1107; [1965]2SCR477

..... now part of the dominion, pointing out that in this legislation there are to be found numerous provisions relating to the curing and marketing of fish, and he urges that the british north america act, 1867, must be construed in the light of the earlier legislation, and that the word 'fisheries' must be given such a meaning as is wide enough to include at any rate the operations affected by ..... in the budget estimates the corporation shall among other things (a)make adequate and suitable provisions for such services as may be required for the fulfilment of the several duties imposed by this act, (aa) make adequate provisions for depreciation of machinery belonging to the corporation, as far as may be possible, (b)provide for the payment as they fall due of all instalments of the principal and ..... provision was upheld on the ground that the material provisions of the act including its preamble were intended to give relief to tenants by fixing the maximum rent ..... 443 was really "a licence fee" and not a tax and that viewed as a licence fee it did not pass the test of legality on account of there being no correlation between the amount charged on the theatre owners and the services rendered to them or the expenses incurred by the municipality ..... any legal basis ..... statute has to be read so as to make it valid and, if possible, an interpretation leading to a contrary position should be avoided; it has to be construed ut res magis valeat quam pareat : see broom's legal maxims (10 ed.) p. .....

Smt. Shyamabai W/O Shriram Sharma (Since Deceased), Vs. Ramkisan S/O P ...

Court : Mumbai

Reported in : 2008(3)ALLMR189

..... the sureties objected to the execution against them on the grounds, inter alia that the surety bond being unregistered was not enforceable and that the decree holder a having committed an act by which the remedies of the sureties against the judgment debtor b had been impaired, the sureties stood discharged. ..... ' in stroud dictionary, this expression is defined as under:it implies not only the disposition but the capacity to do the act.plaintiff must show that non-completion of the contract was not the fault of the plaintiffs and that they were disposed and able to complete it if it had not been renounced by the defendants.15. ..... . therefore not only class i heirs under section 8 read with schedule of the hindu succession act but also the executor of the will are legal representatives within the meaning of section 2(11) ..... high court found that defendants need not have been made parties to 1918 suit and they were not representatives of basangowda and transfer in their favour cannot be regarded as giving them any right to attack plaintiffs right to sue. ..... in her written statement, defendant-1 denied this and stated that in spite of several registered notices and telegraphic notices, he could not get sale deed executed and he never tendered the money. ..... in her written statement, present appellant/defendant1 denied not only case of plaintiff but stated that in spite of several registered notices and telegraphic notices, he could not get sale deed executed and he never tendered the money. .....

Vodafone International Holdings B.V., a Company Incorporated Under the ...

Court : Mumbai

Reported in : 2009(4)BomCR258; (2008)220CTR(Bom)649; [2009]311ITR46(Bom)

..... may, 2007conditional approval by the fipb stipulating that there should be compliance and observance of applicable laws and regulations of india, which would naturally include tax obligations under income tax act.8th may, 2007:petitioner enters into an agreement with htil to provide for the retention of us$ 352 million out of total consideration payable by it to htil to meet ..... may, 2007conditional approval by the fipb stipulating that there should be compliance and observance of applicable laws and regulations of india, which would naturally include tax obligations under income tax act.8th may, 2007:petitioner enters into an agreement with htil to provide for the retention of us$ 352 million out of total consideration payable by it to htil to meet ..... large number of cases, the apex court has deprecated the practice of the high courts entertaining writ petitions questioning legality of the show cause notices stalling enquiries as proposed and retarding investigative process to find actual facts with the ..... the issue before the court was whether in determining whether a bidder could qualify for a tender the experience of one of its shareholders could be considered for complying with the requirement that 'the tenderer should have the experience in compiling, printing and supplying of telephone directories of large telephone ..... for doing this, the courts have taken help from the preamble, objects, the scheme of the act, its historical background, the purpose for enacting such a provision, .....

S.C. Sreemanavikraman Raja, ZamorIn Rajah of Kozhikode and anr. Vs. Co ...

Court : Chennai

Reported in : AIR1957Mad522; [1957]32ITR1(Mad)

..... of the government was that the sthani was ah office holder, that the sthanam properties devolved not on the personal heirs of the last sthani but on the successor to the office with the legal result that the sthani for the time being had no power to dispose of that property by testament and that as under the customary law there was no such successor, the properties escheated ..... .(2) the central government may, by noti fication in the official gazette, add the names of any other states to the first schedule in respect whereof resolutions have been passed by the legislatures of those states adopting this act under clause (1) of article 252 of the constitution in respect of estate duty on agricultural lands situate in those states, and on the issue of any such notification the states so added shall be deemed to be ..... according to him started in the middle of the 16th century and the limitations or imperfections of the complete personality of such a corporation and concluded: (at page 353),"but to all appearance there can be no legal transaction, no act in the law, between the corporation sole and the natural man who is the one and only corporator ..... . 4: (air 1918 mad 675) (n) which was quoted with approval ..... . 4: (air 1918 mad 675) (n) dis approved the view that the holder of a sthanam office was in the same position as a widow but for the present purposes of this ..... . 4: (air 1918 mad 675) (n), he said "a slhanam according to the law of malabar is descendible from one sthanam to another .....

R.S. Jiwani Vs. Ircon International Ltd., a Government of India

Court : Mumbai

..... the court orders that an arbitral award be set aside, the period between the commencement of the arbitration and the date of the order of the court shall be excluded in computing the time prescribed by the limitation act, 1963 (36 of 1963), for the commencement of the proceedings (including arbitration) with respect to the dispute so submitted.when the award is set aside for the reasons other than merits, then it is open to the ..... of the learned single judge was challenged before the division bench on two grounds; (a) the award had been vitiated on account of noncompliance of provision of sub-section (3) of section 24 of the act due to non supply of copies of the valuation report on which the award was based and (b) the award had been passed after termination of mandate of the arbitrator. ..... a proposal was mooted on 27th july, 1977 by secretary, department of legal affairs stating that as public accounts committee had commented adversely on working of the arbitration act due to its delay, enormous expenses and long time spent, government was desirous to have a second look to the provision of arbitration act, 1940 with a view to see whether the enormous delay occurring in arbitration proceedings and disproportionate costs incurred therein could ..... jiwani, was the successful tenderer and letter of acceptance was issued in his favour by the company on 19.1.1999 in furtherance to which the parties entered and executed an agreement dated ..... important part of the 1996 act is its preamble. .....

Union of India (Uoi) Vs. Sankalchand Himatlal Sheth and anr.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1977SC2328; (1977)GLR919; (1977)0GLR90; 1977LabIC1857; (1977)4SCC193; [1978]1SCR423

..... my right and duty to examine every word of a statute in its context and i use 'context' in its widest sense, which i have already indicated as including not only other enacting ' provisions of the same statute, but its preamble, the existing state of the law other statutes in pari materia and the mischief which i can, by those and other legitimate means, discern the statute was intended to remedy.since a large and ever-increasing ..... 465:in order to discover the intention of parliament it is proper that the court should read the whole act, inform itself of the legal context of the act, including acts so related to it that they may throw light upon its meaning and of the factual context, such as the mischief to be remedied and those circumstances which parliament had in view, including in this case the ..... than what may in practical terms be described as 'sounding' the chief justice is the chief justice entitled upon being consulted by the president, to ask for the relevant data to enable him to tender his considered opinion on the subject these then are the important matters for consideration.37. ..... opportunity for getting information, taking other steps and getting prepared for tendering effective and meaningful advice must be given to him. ..... , on the one side, the minister must supply sufficient information to the local authority to enable them to tender advice, and, on the other hand, a sufficient opportunity must be given 'to the local authority to tender advice' per bucknill, l.j. .....

V. Narayana Rao and anr. Vs. State of Andhra Pradesh and anr.

Court : Andhra Pradesh

Reported in : AIR1987AP53

..... the government was inclined to do something for them but, the legal advice tendered by the law department and the advocate general was that muslims as such cannot be included in the backward classes ..... presently, but, so far as the first contention of the learned counsel for the petitioners is concerned, it is not possible to agree, that the government acted illegally in accepting, or acting upon the said recommendations because those recommendations were outside the purview of the commission. 33. ..... we may also mention that the government has implicitly accepted the said report and acted upon it while raising the level of reservation, which is evident from a reading of paras 13 to 15 ..... now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 3 of the commissions of inquiry act, 1952 (central act 60 of 1962), the governor of andhra pradesh hereby appoints a commission of inquiry consisting of a single ..... 'backward communities' occurs in the order of the mysore government made in 1918 appointing a committee under the chairmanship of sir leslie c. ..... and is not meant to be adhered to the exclusion of all other tests; (vi) the ultimate objective of designating certain groups of backward classes is to give effect to the principle of equality of opportunity and status enshrined in the preamble to, and in arts. ..... an expression 'intermediate castes' was also coined to denote those castes which did not belong to the upper classes like brahmins, vaisyas and kshtriyas or to the category of .....

Rajah Sri Ravu Sweta, Chelapathi Ramakrishna Ranga Rao Bahadur, Rajah ...

Court : Chennai

Reported in : AIR1952Mad203; (1952)IMLJ174

..... the value of the property of companies engaged in the carrying on business, and that especially may the courts of united states treat such a question as a judicial one, and hold such acts of legislation to be in conflict with the constitution of the united states, as depriving the companies of their property without due process of law, and, as depriving them of the equal protection of the laws. ..... the landholders and also takes away from them the right to collect the rents and therefore the act relates to acquisition of land and as the act does not provide for the payment of compensation to the land-holders, it is in contravention of section 299(2) of the government of india act, 1935, which says: 'neither the federal nor provincial legislature shall have power to make any ..... preamble to the act, 'whereas the rents now payable by ryots in estates governed by the madras estates land act, 1908, are in many cases substantially higher than the assessments levied on lands in ryotwari areas in the neighbourhood; and whereas it is expedient to provide for reduction of such rents approximately to the level of the ryotwari assessments in the neighbourhood'.the act applies to all estates as defined in section 3, clause (2) of the madras estates land act ..... mad 116 the ryot is referred to as a 'peasant proprietor', whatever may be the legal conception in this matter and there has not been uniformity as to this, i think the ..... act xxx of 1947 received the assent of the governor on the 6th january 1918 .....

V.K. Kumaraswami Chettiar and ors. Vs. P.A.S.V. Karuppuswami Mooppanar

Court : Chennai

Reported in : AIR1953Mad380; (1952)2MLJ785

..... explaining the scope of section 39 observed that "this section only means to indicate what was the law in england and the law here before the act was passed, namely, that where a party to a contract refuses altogether to perform or is disabled from performing his part of it the other side has a right to ..... rajagopala aiyangar that the rights of the parties must be determined solely with reference to the provisions of the indian contract act; that section 39 requires that when there is a repudiation or refusal to perform by one party, there must be acceptance of that refusal or repudiation by the other party and an election to put an end to the contract and that until ..... to understand the attitude taken up by the respondent in this reply it should be stated that on 19-8-1943 the textile commissioner, acting under the yarn control order issued under rule 81(2), defence of india rules, published a statement fixing the maximum price for yarn and on 31-8-1943 there was a formal statutory notification on the lines of ..... alternatively the other party may rescind the contract or (as it is sometimes expressed) "accept the repudiation" by so acting as to make plain that in view of the wrongful action of the party who has repudiated, he claims to treat the contract as at an end, in which case he can sue at once for damages ........but repudiation by one party ..... was overruled and it was held that the improper tender made on 30-10-1918 was no bar to the plaintiff making a proper tender in time. .....

In Re: C.G. Menon and anr.

Court : Chennai

Reported in : AIR1953Mad729; (1953)IIMLJ61

..... to the surrender or the return of the fugitive offender to the demanding country is that, while the demand is from a territory to which part i applies, an indian court has to be satisfied by evidence tendered that the fugitive offender is 'prima facie' guilty of the offences with which he has been charged, the need for such evidence is dispensed with, if the demand is from a territory with which india was ..... same group, a magistrate in the last mentioned possession, if satisfied that the warrant was issued by a person having lawful authority to issue the same, may endorse such warrant in manner provided by this act, and the warrant so endorsed shall be a sufficient authority to apprehend within the jurisdiction of the endorsing magistrate the person named in the warrant, and bring him before the endorsing magistrate or some other ..... extradition or surrender of a fugitive offender from india to every one of these territories except those grouped by an order in council issued under section 12, fugitive offenders act necessitated prima facie evidence of the guilt of the offender to the satisfaction of an indian court, or in the case of territories in classes 3 and 4, to ..... in the preamble to the order in council dated 2-1-1918, it was stated: 'and whereas by reason of their contiguity or the frequent intercommunication between them, it seems expedient to his majesty and conducive to the better administration of justice therein to apply part ii of the fugitive offenders act to the .....