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Use, connotes that the traveling or stationary vehicle at the time when it becames the subject-matters of a delictum was at the place where it is found in the course of its user in accordance with the permit granted to it, TV Moidu (in re:), AIR 1960 Mad 265.

Use, in application of law is the profit or benefit of lands and tenement, or a trust and confidence reposed in a man for the holdings of lands, that he to whose use the trust is made shall take the profits thereof, Tomlins.

Use, in relation to narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, means any kind of use except personal consumption. [Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (61 of 1985), s. 2 (xxviiia)]

Meaning of the word 'use' in the Oxford Dictionary some of which are as follows: 'To make use of as a means or instrument; To employ for a profitable end;' Automotive Manufacturers (P) Ltd. v. Govern-ment of Andhra Pradesh, AIR 1972 SC 229 (231): (1972) 1 SCC 125: (1972) 2 SCR 593.

1. The application or employment of something esp. a long continued possession and employment of a thing for the purpose for which it is adapted, as distinguished from a possession and employment that is merely temporary or occasional 2. A habitual or common practice, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1540.

Use, in the context of motor vehicles, has been cons-trued in a wider sense to include the period when the vehicle is not moving and is stationary, being either parked on the road and when it is not in a position to move due to some breakdown or mechanical defect, Shivaji Dayana Patil v. Vatschala Uttam More, AIR 1991 SC 1769: (1991) 3 SCC 530; Kanhei Rana v. Gangadhar Swain, AIR 1993 Ori 89: (1992) 74 Cut LT 228: (1992) 2 TAC 208: (1992) 2 ACC 362: (1992) 1 Ori LR 580: (1992) ACJ 1124.

Means to make use of as a means or instrument; to employ for a profitable end, Automotive Manufacturers Pvt. Ltd. v. Government of Andhra Pradesh, AIR 1972 SC 299: (1972) 1 SC 125.

Use, suggests 'something done' positively e.g. utili-zation of disposal. Mere 'non-use' is not included in the word 'use', State of Uttar Pradesh v. Ramagya Sharma Vaidya, AIR 1966 SC 78.