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E.D. Sassoon and Company Ltd. Vs. the Commissioner of Income-tax, Bomb ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1954SC470; (1955)57BOMLR639; [1954]26ITR27(SC); [1955]1SCR313

..... inserted in the managing agency agreement from the beginning. for the future period the transferor effected itself and the transferee took the place of the transferor and preserved the continuity of the managing agency so that whoever happened to satisfy the description of the managing agents at the time when the commission for the accounting ..... smith & son v. moore [1921] 2 a.c. 13 in the following passage : 'the business makes no profits. the profits are not fruits yielded by a tree spontaneously. they are the result of the operations carried on by the owner of the business for the time being.' 84. therefore, on principle, apart from authority, it ..... ); annual or periodical receipts accruing to a person or corporation' (oxford dictionary). the word clearly implies the ideal of receipt, actual or constructive. the policy of the act is to make the amount taxable when it is paid or received either actually or constructively. 'accrues,' 'arises' and 'is received' are three distinct terms. so .....

The Bengal Immunity Company Limited Vs. the State of Bihar and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1955SC661; [1955]2SCR603; [1955]6STC446(SC)

..... theory of territorial nexus between the respective provinces and the sales or purchases sought to be taxed. it was to cure this mischief of multiple taxation and to preserve the free flow of inter-state trade or commerce in the union of india regarded as one economic unit without any provincial barrier that the constitution makers adopted ..... the explanation are used in contrast to constructive or symbolic delivery as meaning physical delivery of goods, that under section 39(1) of the sale of goods act, 1930 (act iii of 1930) the common carrier is the agent of the purchaser, and that therefore delivery of the goods to the railway authorities in bengal was actual ..... is that it confers on the states proprio vigore, a power to tax sales when the conditions mentioned therein are satisfied. agreeably to this view, the bihar finance act, 1950 (act xvii of 1950) substituted for the words 'who carries on business of selling or buying goods in bihar' the words 'who sells or supplies any goods'. .....

Kinsella Vs. Kreuger

Court : US Supreme Court

..... existing system of courts-martial for this purpose, the enactment must be sustained. in the present day, we, as a nation, have found it necessary to the preservation of our security to maintain american forces in some sixty-three foreign countries. the practical necessity of allowing these men to be page 351 u. s. 477 ..... does not preclude, but must necessarily include, the power to provide for trial before a military tribunal unless that alternative is "so clearly arbitrary or capricious that legislators acting reasonably could not have believed it to be necessary or appropriate for the public welfare. [ footnote 8 ]" the choice among different types of legislative tribunals is ..... union." balzac v. porto rico, 258 u. s. 298 , 258 u. s. 304 -305. in an earlier case, this court had sustained the constitutionality of an act of congress which created consular courts to try, pursuant to treaties, american citizens for crimes committed in japan, china, and other countries. in re ross, 140 u. s. .....

Kamala Devi Vs. Bachu Lal Gupta

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1957SC434; [1957]1SCR452

..... considered as essential for the salvation of the soul of the deceased. the other relates to acts which although not essential or obligatory, are still pious observances which conduce to the bliss of the deceased's soul. in the later cases this distinction runs ..... there can be no doubt upon a review of the hindu law, taken in conjunction with the decided cases, that the hindu system recognises two sets of religious acts. one is in connection with the actual obsequies of the deceased, and the periodical performance of the obsequial rites prescribed in the hindu religious law, which are ..... criticism. the learned judges rightly pointed out a serious discrepancy which existed between the evidence of kamal narayan pandey (witness no. 8), who is said to have acted as the priest for the marriage, and the evidence of other witnesses with regard to the 'lagan' or time of marriage. taking all these circumstances into consideration, .....

Jencks Vs. United States

Court : US Supreme Court

..... basis for the privilege disappears, and there usually remains little need to conceal the privileged evidence from the jury. thus, when the government is a party, the preservation of these privileges is dependent upon nondisclosure of the privileged evidence to the defendant. this makes it page 353 u. s. 676 necessary for the trial court, ..... with the communist party may be proved by either circumstantial or direct evidence, or both." this instruction allowed the jury to convict petitioner on the basis of acts of intermittent cooperation. it did not require a continuing course of conduct "on a fairly permanent basis" "that could not be abruptly ended without page 353 u ..... the party members, including the petitioner, were informed of party policy not to sign affidavits required by 9(h) of the then recently enacted taft-hartley act. there was no testimony that that policy changed before october 15, 1949. the affidavit was filed shortly before a cio convention was scheduled to expel the mine .....

Workmen of Dimakuchi Tea Estate Vs. the Management of Dimakuchi Tea Es ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1958SC353; (1958)ILLJ500SC; [1958]1SCR1156

..... s hands not to give effect to the dismissal. that would have destroyed the industrial peace which the object of the act is to preserve. it is in order to achieve this object that the act recognises this dispute as an industrial dispute and provides for its settlement by the methods of conciliation or adjudication contained in it ..... would be no benefit to a person who was not a workman. further, i am unable to agree that the act is intended to confer benefit on workmen. its object is admitted by all to preserve industrial peace. it may confer some benefit on workmen but at the same time it takes away their power and ..... employers and employers, employers and workmen, or workmen and workmen. thus, an examination of the salient provisions of the act shows that the principal objects of the act are- 1167 (1) the promotion of measures for securing and preserving amity and good relations between the employer and workmen; (2) an investigation and settlement of industrial disputes, between employers .....

Express Newspapers (Private) Ltd. and anr. Vs. the Union of India (Uoi ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1958SC578; (1961)ILLJ339SC; (1964)ILLJ9SC; [1959]1SCR12

..... minimum of education, medical facilities and other amenities. we consider that a minimum wage must provide not merely for the bare sustenance of life but for the preservation of the efficiency of the worker. for this purpose, the minimum wage must also provide for some measure of education, medical requirements, and amenities.' (report ..... . 290. the position, however, as it obtains in the present case is that there is no such provision to be found in the impugned act. the impugned act does not say that the wage board shall not give any reason for its decision. it is left to the discretion of the wage board whether ..... :- 1. in selecting the press industry employers from all industrial employers governed by the ordinary law regulating industrial relations under the industrial disputes act, 1947, and act i of 1955, the impugned act subjects the press industry employers to discriminatory treatment. 2. such discrimination lies in (a) singling out newspaper employees for differential treatment; (b .....

Mohd. Hanif Quareshi and ors. Vs. the State of Bihar

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1958SC731; [1959]1SCR629

..... distinguishes them from those who kill goats and sheep and this differentia has a close connection with the object sought to be achieved by the impugned act, namely, the preservation, protection and improvement of our livestock. the attainment of these objectives may well necessitate that the slaughterers of cattle should be dealt with more stringently ..... read with entry 15 in list ii of the seventh schedule. it is, therefore, quite clear that the objects sought to be achieved by the impugned acts are the preservation, protection and improvement of livestocks. cows, bulls, bullocks and calves of cows are no doubt the most important cattle for the agricultural economy of this ..... in the seventh petition. by these petitions the petitioners all of whom are citizens of india, challenge the validity of the c.p. and berar animal preservation act, 1949 (c.p. and berar lii of 1949), as subsequently amended. 6. in order to appreciate the arguments advanced for and against the constitutional validity .....

Basheshar Nath Vs. the Commissioner of Income-tax, Delhi and Rajasthan ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1959SC149; [1959]35ITR190(SC); 1959Supp(1)SCC528; [1959]Supp1SCR528

..... making any law taking away or abridging the said rights. part iii is therefore enacted for the benefit of all the citizens of india, in an attempt to preserve to them their fundamental rights against infringement by the institutions created by the constitution; for, without that safeguard, the objects (1) [1950] s. c. ..... and as a direct result of the discriminatory procedure which it followed. indeed, the investigation commission followed the only procedure of investigation prescribed under the act, which was a drastic and summary procedure, and if that procedure became void on the coming into force of the constitution, the jurisdiction of the ..... evidence in any proceedings directed to be taken under sub-section (2). (8)......................................................... section 9 barred the jurisdiction of courts to call in question any act or proceeding of the commission or any authorised official appointed under s. 6. section 10 gave power to the central government to make rules by .....

The Corporation of the City of Nagpur Vs. Its Employees

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1960SC675; (1960)ILLJ523SC

..... of hoses or other appliances, any premises for the purpose of extinguishing the fire and generally to take such measures as many appear necessary for the preservation of life or property, and that the services of the firebrigade cannot be satisfactorily rendered without such powers and that no private individual can perform the ..... trade, undertaking, manufacture or calling of employers and to include any calling, service, employment, handicraft, or industrial occupation or avocation of workmen'. section 2(14) of the act divides the definition into three parts, namely, '(a) any business, trade, manufacturing or mining undertaking or calling of employers, (b) any calling, service, employment, handicraft ..... gardens department : the functions of this department are the maintenance of public parks and gardens and laying of new gardens and parks; and planting of trees on road sides. (see the evidence of witness no. 5 for party no. 1). this service is covered by the definition of 'industry' .....