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Amrit Banaspati Co. Ltd. and anr. Vs. State of Uttar Pradesh and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1965SC560; 1965(0)BLJR54; [1964]8SCR313; [1965]16STC93(SC)

..... section 13 of the coinage act iii of 1906 (which was substituted by act 28 of 1947 for the original sections 13 and 14) in so far as it is material provides: "(1) the coins issued under the authority of section 6 shall be a legal tender in payment or on account,- (a) in the case of a rupee coin, for any sum; (b) in the case of a half-rupee coin, for any sum not exceeding ten rupees; (c) in the case of any other coin, for any sum not exceeding one rupee: (2) * * *" section 14 which added by act 31 of 1955 provides: "(1) the rupee shall be divided into one hundred units ..... when these two condi- tions are present, those coins would be legal tender in pay- ment or on account at the rate of 16 annas, 64 pice or 192 pies to 100 naye paise which is the new coin referred to in sub-s. (1) of s. 14. ..... in every existing law, all references to any value expressed in annas, pice and pies, shall be construed at references to that value ex- pressed in new coins referred to in subsection (1) of section 14 of the indian coinage act, 1906 (central act iii of 1906), converted thereto at the rate specified in sub-section (2) of section 14 of the said act. ..... 14 requires is that references to any value expressed in annas, pice and pies will be construed to such values ,expressed in new coins which would be absolutely equivalent to the value of the old coins when their value is converted at the rate of 16 annas, 64 pice and 192 pies to 100 naye paise. .....

Mangalore Ganesh Bedi Works Vs. the State of Mysore and anr.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1963SC589; [1963]Supp(1)SCR275; [1963]14STC198(SC)

..... secondly, it was submitted that the indian coinage act, being a central act dealing with 'coinage and legal tender' under item 36 of list i, could not change the rate of tax under the mysore sales tax act. ..... is divided into a hundred naya paisas, the old legal tender of sixteen annas or sixty four pice or one hundred any ninety two pies to a rupee remains legal tender which will be equivalent to one hundred naya paisas and for purposes of calculation and conversion of old coins into new coins, one old coin or a number of such coins have to be calculated to the nearest new coin or coins and where the new coin above and the new coin below are equally near then the calculation ..... coins issued under the authority of this act in any denomination of annas, pice and pies shall, to the extent specified in section 13, be a legal tender in payment or on account at the rate of sixteen annas, sixty four pice or one hundred and ninety two pies to one hundred new coins referred to in sub-section (1), calculated in respect of any such single coin or number of such coins tendered at one transaction, to the nearest new coin, or where the new coin above and the new coin below are equally near, to the new coin ..... 91,690/- but after the amendment of the indian coinage act (act 3 of 1906) by the amending act 31 of 1955 the rate of sales tax which was levied on the appellant's beedis was .02 nps. .....

Hodel Vs. Irving

Court : US Supreme Court

..... an examination of the circumstances surrounding congress' enactment of 207 discloses the abruptness and lack of explanation with which congress added the escheat section to the other provisions of the indian land consolidation act that it enacted in 1983. ..... as the chief justice has written: "[t]his court has generally" "been unable to develop any 'set formula' for determining when 'justice and fairness' require that economic injuries caused by public action be compensated by the government, rather than remain disproportionately concentrated on a few persons. ..... upon existing causes of action; though what shall be considered a reasonable time must be settled by the judgment of the legislature, and the courts will not inquire into the wisdom of its decision in establishing the period of legal bar, unless the time allowed is manifestly so insufficient that the statute becomes a denial of justice. ..... in one form or another, the right to pass on property -- to one's family in particular -- has been part of the anglo-american legal system since feudal times. ..... but the character of the government regulation here is extraordinary, since it amounts to virtually the abrogation of the right to pass on property to one's heirs, which right has been part of the anglo-american legal system since feudal times. ..... as the court below recognized, one of these prudential principles is that the plaintiff generally must assert his own legal rights and interests. .....

The Commissioner of Income Tax, Bombay City I, Bombay Vs. Narsee Nagse ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1960SC1232; [1960]40ITR307(SC); [1960]3SCR988

..... that section, omitting again the provisos that do not affect the present matter, provides : 'this act shall apply to every business of which any part of the profits made during the chargeable accounting period is chargeable to income-tax by virtue of the provisions of sub-clause (i) or sub-clause (ii) of clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 4 of the indian income-tax act, 1922, or of clause (c) of that sub-section : 'provided....... ..... 11, it is submitted next, is without any limit of time, and a limitation cannot be read into a section, when the legislature has not thought it fit to lay it down. ..... in our opinion, the high court was right when it held that sections 11 and 14 of the act have to be read together. 7. ..... the tribunal, therefore, held that inasmuch as the notice in this case was issued in january, 1953, more than four years after october 31, 1948, when the chargeable accounting period came to an end, the notice and the assessment were barred by time. ..... 14 of the act that when a notice issued under that section all the requirements of the notice under s. ..... these sections lead to the conclusion that every business to which the act applies is liable to the risk of being assessed to business profits tax and it is well settled that income escapes assessment when the process of assessment has not been initiated as also in a case where it has resulted in no assessment after completion of the process of assessment. .....

Godrej and Boyce Mfg.Co.Ltd. and anr. Vs. State of Maharashtra and ors ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... completely unknown to godrej and not disclosed by the state in suit no.413 of 1953 even till 8th january 1962 when the consent decree was passed by the bombay high court, a notice bearing no.wt/53 had been issued to godrej under section 35(3) of the forest act (as amended) and published in the bombay government gazette of 6th september 1956 in respect of the disputed land in ..... the property of the estate-holder but have not been appropriated or brought under cultivation before the 14th august 1951, and (c) all other kinds of property referred to in section 37 of the code situate in an estate which is not the property of any individual or an aggregate of persons legally capable of holding property other than the estate-holder and except in so far as any rights of persons may be established in or over the same and except as may ..... connected therewith is the question whether the word issued in section 2(f) (iii) of the maharashtra private forests acquisition act, 1975 read with section 35 of the indian forest act, 1927 must be given a literal interpretation or a ..... thus clear that after the issue of notices under section 35(3) or notification under 35(1) of the indian forest act, no follow-up action was taken by the state ..... it must be recalled, at this stage, that the words or land under section 35(3) of the forest act had been deleted by the indian forest (bombay amendment) act, 1948 being bombay act no.62 of 1948 and, additionally therefore, such an objection could validly have been .....

Jaishree Anant Khandekar Vs. State of Maharashtra

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : 2009AIRSCW5997; JT2009(4)SC198; 2009(4)SCALE172; (2009)11SCC647; 2009(3)LHSC1439

..... become incapable of giving evidence, or whose attendance cannot be procured, without an amount of delay or expense which under the circumstances of the case appears to the court unreasonable, are themselves relevant facts in the following cases:(1) when it relates to cause of death - when the statement is made by a person as to the cause of his death, or to any of the circumstances of the transaction which resulted in his death, in cases in which the cause of that person's death comes into question.such ..... the queen 1982 (1) all elr 183 (pc), while hearing an appeal from the court of appeal of jamaica, made a comparison of the english law and indian law by referring to the underlined portions of section 32(1) of the indian evidence act at page 187 of the report. ..... statements are relevant whether the person who made them was or was not, at the time when they were made, under expectation of death, and whatever may be the nature of the proceeding in which the cause of his death comes into question. ..... if after careful scrutiny, the court is satisfied that it is true and free from any effort to induce the deceased to make a false statement and if it is coherent and consistent, there shall be no legal impediment to make it the basis of conviction, even if there is no corroboration. ..... justice willes coined it as a 'settled hopeless expectation of death' (r v. .....

Cotton Petroleum Corp. Vs. New Mexico

Court : US Supreme Court

..... leases may only be offered for sale pursuant to specified standards governing notice and bidding, 25 cfr 211.3(a) (1988), that the secretary reserves "the right to reject all bids when in his judgment the interests of the indians will be best served by so doing," 211.3(b), that corporate bidders must submit detailed information concerning their officers, directors, shareholders, and finances, 211.5, that no single lease for oil ..... [ footnote 1 ] the full text of the executive order reads as follows: " executive mansion, february 11, 1887" "it is hereby ordered that all that portion of the public domain in the territory of new mexico which, when surveyed, will be embraced in the following townships, viz:" "27, 28, 29, and 30 north, ranges 1 east, and 1, 2, 3 west; 31 and 32 north, ranges 2 west and 3 west, and the south half of the township 31 north, range ..... that uncertain legal climate, the 1927 act is best viewed as a compromise: indian interests acquiesced in the states' claim that they had a right to increase their general revenues by sharing in the profits of reservation mining activities; in return, the indians avoided legislation that would have obliterated any hope of obtaining recognition of their legal entitlement ..... the majority appropriately acknowledges that congress knew when it enacted the 1938 act that a statute governing tribal leases that failed expressly to authorize state taxation of indian royalty interests would have the effect of leaving the states without the .....

Energy Watchdog Vs. Central Electricity Regulatory Commission and Ors. ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... last 40 years.this being the case, in both the cases, adani power filed a petition before the central electricity regulatory commission being petition no.155 of 2012 on 5th july, 2012 under section 79 of the electricity act seeking relief on the score of the impact of the indonesian regulation to either discharge them from the performance of the ppa on account of frustration, or to evolve a mechanism to restore the ..... generation, supply, transmission and wheeling of electricity, wholesale, bulk or retail, as the case may be, within the state: provided that where open access has been permitted to a category of consumers under section 42, the state commission shall determine only the wheeling charges and surcharge thereon, if any, for the said category of consumers; (b) regulate electricity purchase and procurement process of distribution licensees including the price ..... it is further argued, in the alternative, that in any case, force majeure either under section 56 of the indian contract act, 1872 or under clauses 12.3 and 7 of the respective ppas make it clear that it must be an unforeseen event or circumstance that wholly or partly prevents the affected party ..... price of coal will not absolve the generating companies from performing their part of the contract for the very good reason that when they submitted their bids, this was a risk they knowingly took. ..... it created the legal framework for laying down of wires ..... criteria was to be followed in order to arrive at the lowest tender.3. .....

In Re: the Delhi Laws Act, 1912, the Ajmer-merwara (Extension of Laws) ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : [1951]2SCR747

..... in the light of the authorities discussed above and adopting the line of approach laid down there, i am of opinion that section 7 of the delhi laws act, 1912, fell within the general scope of the affirmative words of section 22 of the indian councils act, 1861, which conferred the law-making power on the governor-general in council and that the provision did not violate any of the clauses by which, negatively, that power was restricted ..... 246 as between parliament and the legislatures of the states specified in part a and part b of the first schedule, which, however, does not affect the question we have to determine, for article 246(4), like section 100(4) of the government of india act, 1935, provides that parliament has power to make laws with respect to any matter for any part of the territory of india not included in part a or part b notwithstanding that such matter is a matter ..... there is no justification for the assumption that the expression 'abdication' is only applicable when there is a total effacement or a legal extinction of such a body ..... at the trial, before the high court, the prosecutor tendered in evidence the commonwealth gazette containing a proclamation by the governor-general in council under section 52(g) declaring opium in that condition to be prohibited import ..... 175] the respondent was indicted for having misbranded certain sacks containing corn meal contrary to the provisions of the food and drugs act of 1906 ..... they have been so regarded by the privy council [1906] a.c .....

Kesavananda Bharati Sripadagalvaru and ors.Vs. State of Kerala and anr ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1973SC1461; (1973)4SCC225; [1973]SuppSCR1

..... 1160. while the claim was so made and at the time when the resolution was adopted, the legal sovereignty over india remained vested in the british crown and british parliament, and when that power was transferred, it was transferred to the constituent assembly by the indian independence, act, 1947, sections 6 and 8 of which conferred on the constituent assembly the power to enact a constitution, as well as the full powers ..... 31-a and if article 31-a had no application, that article also should be left out of consideration....on the basis of the similarity of the language in the opening part of article 31-b with that of sub-section (2) of section 2 of the defence of india act "without prejudice to the generality of the provisions contained in article 31-a", it was urged that article 31-b was merely illustrative of article 31- a and as the latter was limited in its application to estates ..... production to the common deteriment;(d) that there is equal pay for equal work for both men and women;(e) that the health and strength of workers, men and women, and the tender age of children are not abused and that citizens are not forced by economic necessity to enter avocations unsuited to their age or strength;(f) that childhood ..... arises that if the word 'amount' which has no legal concept, and as the amended clause indicates, means only cash, which would be in the currency of the country, can the lowest amount of the current coin be fixed, and if fixed, will it ..... ' is not a coinage of ..... legislative .....