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Dr. Devendra M. Surti Vs. the State of Gujarat

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1969SC63; (1969)71BOMLR93; 1969CriLJ285; [1968(17)FLR370]; (1969)IILLJ116SC; 1969MhLJ391(SC); [1969]1SCR234

..... chapter vi deals with employment of children, young persons and ..... 'commercial establishment' means an establishment which carries on, any business, trade or profession or any work in connection with, or incidental or ancillary to, any business, trade or profession and includes a society registered under the societies registration act, 1860, and a charitable or other trust, whether registered or not, which carries on whether for purposes of gain or not, any business, trade or profession or work in connection with or incidental or ancillary thereto but does ..... any such establishment or class of establishments or such person or class of persons shall be deemed to be an establishment or class of establishments to which, or to be an employee or class of employees to whom, this act applies and all or any of the provisions of this act with such adaptation or modification as may be specified in such de claration, shall apply to such establish ment or class of establishments or to such employee or class of employees. ..... notification in the official gazette, declare any establishment or class of establishments to which, or any person or class of persons to whom, this act or any of the provisions thereof does not for the time being apply, to be an establishment or class of establishments or a person or class of persons to which or whom this act or any provisions thereof with such modifications or adaptations as may in the opinion of the state government be necessary shall apply from such date as .....

Vijay Madanlal Choudhary Vs. Union Of India

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... . paragraph16offences under the juvenile justice (care and protection of children) act, 2000 (56 of 2000) section description of offence ..... was derived from an offence or offences established in accordance with subparagraph a) of this paragraph or from an act of participation in such offence or offences; ii) the possession of equipment or materials or substances listed in table i and table ii, knowing that they are being or are to be used in or for the illicit cultivation, production or iii ..... of the true nature, source, location, disposition, movement, rights with respect to, or ownership of property, knowing that such property is derived from an offence or offences established in accordance with subparagraph a) of this paragraph or from an act of participation in such an offence or offences; c) subject to its constitutional principles and the basic concepts of its legal system: i) the acquisition, possession or use of property, knowing, at the time of receipt, that such property ..... shall be presumed is employed in section 20(1) of the act it must have ..... under the child labour (prohibition and regulation) act, 1986 (61 of 1986) section description of offence 14 punishment for employment of any child to work in contravention ..... the ed is alleged to employ this language in attaching property purchased much before the commission of scheduled offences ..... .....

The Conqueror

Court : US Supreme Court

..... 209, it was held that a ship was not an "article," within the meaning of an act forbidding the employment of children to labor in the manufacture of articles or parts of articles, but that an iron plate was an article of metal, even though used in shipbuilding, and the shaping of the plate was ..... administering oaths to its own members, a duty was laid upon "goods, wares and merchandise" imported into the united states, in which no mention whatever is made of ships or vessels; but by the next act, entitled "an act imposing duties on tonnage," a duty was imposed "on all ships or vessels entered in the united states" at the rate of six cents per ton upon all such as were built within the united states, ..... 970, which provides that "when, in any prosecution commenced on account of the seizure of any vessel, goods, wares, or merchandise, made by any collector or other officer, under any act of congress authorizing such seizure, judgment is rendered for the claimant, but it appears to the court that there was reasonable cause of seizure, the court shall cause a proper certificate thereof to be ..... 970, which provides that, "when, in any prosecution commenced on account of the seizure of any vessel, goods, wares or merchandise, made by any collector or other officer, under any act of congress authorizing such seizure, judgment is rendered for the claimant, but it appears to the court that there was reasonable cause of seizure, the court shall cause a proper certificate thereof to be entered .....

Bhalchandra Alias Bapu and anr. Vs. State of Maharashtra

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1968SC1319; (1969)71BOMLR248; 1968CriLJ1501; 1968MhLJ423(SC); [1968]3SCR766

..... of the immediate cause of the explosion referred to the conclusion of the courts below that the appellants had committed a number of hazardous breaches of the rules framed under the act and the conditions of the licences issued to them, particularly the storage of prohibited explosives and employment of children below the age of 18. ..... where the explosion took place the persons who were employed were mostly women who brought their small children with them and young children below the age of 18 had been employed in the manufacture of the fire works etc. ..... although there was no direct evidence of the immediate cause of the explosion but indisputably the explosives the possession of which was prohibited under the notifications issued under the act were found in the shops on the premises where the appellants carried on their business and on the substances that have been mentioned which were of a highly hazardous ..... under sections 304a and 377 of the code as it has not been established that the deaths or injuries caused were the direct result of any rash or negligent act on the part of the appellants or that any such act had been proved which was the proximate and efficient cause of the explosion without the intervention of another's negligence. ..... it was found that the direct or proximate cause of the fire which resulted in seven deaths was the act of a labourer who acted in a hurry and who did not wait until the bitumen or rosin cooled down and thus it was his negligence which was the .....

M.C. Mehta Vs. State of Tamil Nadu and Others

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1991SC417; 1991CriLJ2648; [1991(61)FLR759]; JT1990(4)SC263; 1991LabIC231; (1991)1MLJ44(SC); 1990(2)SCALE947; (1991)1SCC283; [1991]3SCR312; [1990]Supp2SCR518; 1991(1)LC16

..... constitution has been brought before this court by way of a public interest litigation and is connected with the problem of employment of children in match factories of sivakasi in kamaraj district of tamil nadu state. ..... with these directions we are cognizant of the position that all the problems relating to employment of children are not covered by the present directions. ..... we are of the view that employment of children within the match factories directly connected with the manufacturing process up to final production of match sticks ..... would be ready to contribute a matching grant to the fund and even if necessary, a little more funds could be provided so that facilities for education and recreation can be provided for the children working in the factories we direct that the state of tamil nadu shall take appropriate steps in the matter of creating the welfare fund and finalising the method of contribution and collection thereof so ..... the spirit of the constitution perhaps is that children should not be employed in factories as childhood is the formative period and in terms of article 45 they are meant to be subjected to free and compulsory education ..... article 39(f) of the constitution provides that 'the state should direct its policy towards securing that children are given opportunities and facilities to develop in a healthy manner and in conditions of freedom and dignity and that childhood and youth are protected against ..... under the factories act there is a statutory requirement for .....

Taylor Vs. Bemiss

Court : US Supreme Court

..... we are of opinion that on the appeal of taylor and wood the decree of the court below must be reversed, and as the minor children, plaintiffs below, assign no error, because they had no decree against their mother, a decree must be rendered in that court dismissing the ..... made it her duty to take the necessary legal steps to obtain this money from the united states, and that whether the suit was brought in her own name or in hers jointly with her children, she was equally bound to prosecute it with diligence, and to do all that was necessary to recover the money. ..... is the law of louisiana, which must govern as to her powers as tutrix, since it is there she was appointed, and there both she and her children resided when she made the agreement with taylor and wood. ..... widow of john bemiss, having a claim against the united states pending before the commission commonly called the southern claims commission, under the act of march 3, 1871, employed george taylor and f. c. ..... it was her duty to take legal steps to recover the money from the united states, and that whether the action was brought in her own name or in hers jointly with the children, she was equally bound to prosecute it with diligence. 2. ..... bemiss had no authority to bind her children, the minor heirs of her deceased husband, by such a contract, and that as to their interest in the award it ..... bemiss and her children by name, her authority as tutrix under the louisiana appointment did not authorize payment to her in the district .....

Ceballos and Co. Vs. United States

Court : US Supreme Court

..... with a copy of this contract, to any officer of the army or navy of the united states visiting the vessel:" "the president of the united states to all whom it may concern, greeting: this is to certify that the _____ _____ is employed under contract with the government of the united states in the business of transporting from santiago de cuba to a port in spain spanish prisoners heretofore surrendered to the army of the united states in cuba; that the government of ..... in the light of all the surrounding circumstances, it will not be assumed that the united states, in carrying out its stipulations for the capitulation of manila, would commit an act of inhumanity such as separating the surrendered officers from their wives and children by furnishing the former with cabin and the latter with steerage accommodations on the voyage to spain under the repatriation provision of the treaty of peace. 42 ct.cl. ..... . it follows from the reasoning heretofore employed that the wives and children of such officials were likewise entitled, when tendered by the agents of the united states for transportation, to receive cabin accommodations, and ceballos & company, on furnishing such accommodations, were entitled to compensation at the rate stipulated for ..... . the proposals invited as the basis of a written contract were couched in similar phraseology to that employed in the cuban contract, and called for proposals for the transportation "of the spanish prisoners of war now in the philippine islands . . .....

WisconsIn Vs. Yoder

Court : US Supreme Court

..... other than manufacturing or mining or an occupation found by the secretary of labor to be particularly hazardous for the employment of children between the ages of sixteen and eighteen years or detrimental to their health or wellbeing." 29 u.s.c. ..... the federal fair labor standards act of 1938 excludes from its definition of "[o]ppressive child labor" employment of a child under age 16 by "a parent ..... for, while agricultural employment is not totally outside the legitimate concerns of the child labor laws, employment of children under parental guidance and on the family farm from age 14 to age 16 is an ancient tradition that lies at the periphery of the objectives ..... [ footnote 2/2 ] "no question is raised concerning the power of the state reasonably to regulate all schools, to inspect, supervise and examine them, their teachers and pupils; to require that all children of proper age attend some school, that teachers shall be of good moral character and patriotic disposition, that certain studies plainly essential to good citizenship must be taught, and that nothing be taught which is ..... ] in the present case, the state is not concerned with the maintenance of an educational system as an end in itself; it is rather attempting to nurture and develop the human potential of its children, whether amish or non-amish: to expand their knowledge, broaden their sensibilities, kindle their imagination, foster a spirit of free inquiry, and increase their human understanding and tolerance. .....

King Vs. Smith

Court : US Supreme Court

..... [ footnote 31 ] whatever doubt there might have been over this proposition has been completely dispelled by the 1968 amendments to the social security act, which provide that the states must develop a program: "(i) in the case of a child born out of wedlock who is receiving aid to families with dependent children, to establish the paternity of such child and secure support for him, and" "(ii) in the case of any child receiving such aid who ..... [ footnote 29 ] we think it apparent that neither congress nor any reasonable person would believe that providing employment for some man who is under no legal duty to support a child would in any way provide meaningful economic security for ..... it beyond reason to believe that congress would have considered that providing employment for the paramour of a deserted mother would benefit the mother's children whom he was not obligated to support. ..... clear, as we have noted, that congress expected "breadwinners" who secured employment would support their children. ..... the sort of breadwinner that it had in mind, congress employed the word page 392 u. s. ..... presents the question whether a regulation of the alabama department of pensions and security, employed in that department's administration of the state's federally funded afdc program, is consistent with subchapter iv of the social security act, 42 u.s.c. ..... of private industry" would provide employment for their fathers. ..... program was designed to meet a need unmet by programs providing employment for breadwinners. .....

Dandridge Vs. Williams

Court : US Supreme Court

..... court found that, of maryland's more than 32,000 afdc families, only about 116 could be classified as having employable members, and, of these, the number to which the maximum grant regulation was applicable is not disclosed by ..... of work incentive programs for afdc recipients, which include the placement of recipients over the age of 16 in employment, "institutional and work experience training for those individuals for whom such training is likely to lead to regular employment," and "special work projects for individuals for whom a job in the regular economy cannot be found. ..... noted that, to the extent there is a legitimate state interest in encouraging heads of afdc households to find employment, application of the maximum grant regulation is also grossly underinclusive, because it singles out and affects only large families ..... in its initial ruling that the maryland regulation was inconsistent with the social security act, relied primarily on 402(a)(10) of the act, which provides that "all individuals wishing to make application for aid to families with dependent children shall have opportunity to do so, and that aid to [families with] dependent children shall be furnished with reasonable promptness to all eligible individuals. " 42 u.s.c. ..... rationally supportable and free from invidious discrimination, since it furthers the state's legitimate interest in encouraging employment and in maintaining an equitable balance between welfare families and the families of the working poor. .....