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Duty
Duty, a tax, an impost, or imposition; also an obligation. See PENSION.It means a duty of customs leviable under this Act. [Customs Act, 1962, s. 2 (15)]The expression 'duty' means an 'amount' which shall be collected as a condition for granting the permission to possess, transport import/export or sell opium, Organon (India) Ltd. v. C.C.F, AIR 1994 SC 2489. [Opium Act, (1 of 1878), s. 5]...
duty of candor
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duty of care
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Duty of excise
Duty of excise, a duty of excise is a tax-levy on home-produced goods of a specified class or description, the duty being calculated according to the quantity or value of the goods and which is levied because of the mere fact of the goods having been produced or manufactured and unrelated to and not dependent on any commercial transaction in them, Chhotabhai Jethabhai Patel v. Union of India, AIR 1962 SC 1006 (1016): 1962 Supp (1) SCR 1. [Constitution of India, Sch. VII, List I, Entry 84]See also Union of India v. Madras Rubber Ltd., (1986) 4 SCC 661: AIR 1986 SC 1992....
duty of fair representation
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duty of loyalty
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Duty to report defective plant
Duty to report defective plant, where a self-employed person or an employee discovers any defect in any plant which he is required to use in the course of dock operations which he cannot rectify, he must, without unreasonable delay, report that defect to the person in control of that plant, or in the case of an employee, to his employer or the person in control of the plant, Halsbury's Laws of England (20), para 795, p. 646...