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Warehouse, in common parlance, certainly means a place where a man stores or keeps his goods which are not immediately wanted for sale, Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, 3rd Edn. See also Goa Urban Co-op. Bank Ltd. v. Noor Mohd. Shikh Mussa, (2004) 6 SCC 166. Warehouse, is properly speaking a building used for the purpose of storing goods imported at a reasonable rent, Law Lexicon of British India, 1940 Edn. See also Goa Urban Co-op. Bank Ltd. v. Noor Mohd. Sheikh Mussa, (2004) 6 SCC 166. Means a building where wares or goods are stored, as before being distributed to retailers, a store-house, Webster's New Twentieth Century Diction-ary, Vol. II, 2nd End. See also Goa Urban Co-op Bank Ltd. v. Noor Mohd. Sheikh Mussa, AIR (2004) 6 SC 166. Means a property, Law Lexicon of British India, 1940 Edn. Means a public warehouse appointed under s. 57 or a private warehouse licensed under s. 58. [Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), s. 2 (43)] A building used to store goods and other items, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1578. Means any building, structure or other protected enclosure which is used or may be used for the purpose of storing goods on behalf of depositors, but does not include cloak rooms attached to hotels, railway stations, the premises of other public carries and the like. [Gujarat Warehouses Act, 2006, s. 2(j)] Means any enclosure, building or place where a dealer or a person keeps stocks of goods and includes a vessel, vehicle or godown. [West Bengal Value Added Tax Act, 2003, s. 2(56)]

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