In the course of trade or business, this expression means, that the mining lease, if it was a contract, was in the course of the business of the respondent. It was not necessary that a course of business based upon other transactions must have first existed before the offending contract could be said to be in the course of business, C.V.K. Rao v. Dantu Bhaskara Rao, AIR 1965 SC 93: (1964) 8 SCR 152.
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