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Class II service

Class II service, the words 'Class II service' in Rule 8 (2) of the Haryana Service of Engineers Class I P.W.D. (Irrigation Branch) Rules,1964 must bear the same meaning as the expression 'Class II service' as defined in Rule 2 (5). The artificial definition of 'Class II service' introduced by amendment of Rule 2 (5) in 1975 was obviously to bring persons who were not Assistant Engineers i.e. members of Class II service within the zone of consideration for purposes of promotion the post of Executive Engineer under Rule 6 (b) of Class I Rules, Ashok Gulati v. B.S. Jain, 1986 Supp SCC 597: (1987) 1 SCR 603: AIR 1987 SC 424 (431)....


To which the provisions of Part II apply

To which the provisions of Part II apply, the words 'to which the provisions of Part II apply' in s. 28 of the Bombay Rent Act indicate that the exclusive jurisdiction for recovery of possession is to be exercised when the provisions of Part II which include ss. 12 and 13 apply, Nagindas Ramdas v. Dalpatram Ichharam Alias Brijram, AIR 1974 SC 471: (1974) 1 SCC 242: (1974) 2 SCR 544...


Notwithstanding, the words 'notwithstanding' in clause (1) and 'subject to' in clause (3) mean that where an entry is in general terms in List II and part of that entry is in specific terms in List I, the entry in List I takes effect notwithstanding the e

Notwithstanding any judgment, decree or other authority, the words 'notwithstanding and judg-ment, decree or order of any Court or other authority' in the proviso make it clear and leave no doubt that the legislature intended that the finality of 'judgment, decree or order of any Court or other authority' should not stand in the way of giving full effect to the retrospective introduction of the proviso in s. 3 and applying the provisions of the Delhi Rent Control Act, 1958 in cases falling within the proviso, Sunder Dass v. Ram Parkash, AIR 1977 SC 1201 (1206): (1977) 2 SCC 662: (1977) 3 SCR 60....


Qui per fraudem agit, frustra agit (2 Rol. Rep 17)

Qui per fraudem agit, frustra agit (2 Rol. Rep 17), What a man does fraudulently, he does in vain....


Undertaking

Undertaking, denotes 'any business or any work or project which one engages in or attempts as an enterprise analogous to business or trade, Secretary Madras Gymkhana Club Employees Union v. Manage-ment of Gymkhana Club, AIR 1968 SC 554: (1968) 2 SCJ 138: (1968) 1 SCA 379: (1967) 2 SCWR 618: (1967) 2 Lab LJ 720: 33 FJR 157: (1968) Lab JC 547: (1968) 2 Andh WR (SC) 6: (1968) 2 Mad LJ (SC) 6: 15 Fac LR 411: 16 Law Rep 140.Undertaking, denotes, with reference to company law, all the assets of the company past present and future, and is a mortgageable interest being commonly charged by the debentures of the company. 'Undertaking' means a unit, such as a factory or a granary, Industrial Disputes Tribunal (in re:), (1956) 3 All ER 111.Undertaking, in a compromise decree does not mean a promise to a court. It is merely a solemn promise by one party to the other when it appears in an agreement between the two, Nisha Kant Roy v. Sandji Bashnai, Goho, AIR 1948 Cal 294: 49 Cr LJ 567.Undertaking, i...


Rate

Rate, A contribution levied by some public body for a public purpose, as a poor rate, a highway rate, a sewers rate, upon, as a general rule, the occupiers of property within a parish or other area.Proportional or relative value; the proportion of which quantity or value is adjusted, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1268.The term 'rate' is also used to mean a charge by a water, gas, railway, or other public undertaking for services rendered e.g., (English) Railways Act, 1921, s. 20; Metropolitan Water Board Charges Act, 1921 (11 & 12 Geo. 5, c. xciv.).The poor rate was levied under the (English) Poor Relief Act, 1601 (43 Eliz. s. 2), on the occupiers in each parish of 'lands, houses, tithes, coal mines, or saleable underwoods,' and the (English) Rating Act, 1874, extended the liability to rates to: (1) land used for a plantation or a wood, or for the growth of saleable underwood, and not subject to any right of common; (2) rights of fowling, shooting, taking, or killing game, or ra...


Trade

Trade [fr. trutta, Ital.], traffic; intercourse; commerce; exchange of goods for other goods, or for money.The business of buying and selling or bartering goods or services, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1500.As to contracts in restraint of trade, see RESTRAINT OF TRADE.A 'trade association' means an association of tradesmen, businessmen or manufacturers for the protection and advancement of their common interest, State of Gujarat v. Mahesh Kumar Dhirajlal Thakkar, AIR 1980 SC 1167: (1980) 2 SCC 322.It means any trade, business, industry, profession or occupation relating to the production, supply, distribution or control of goods and includes the provision of any services. [Monopolies and restrictive Trade Practices Act, 1969 (54 of 1969), s. 2 (s)]Means any trade, business, industry, profession or occupation relating to the production, supply, distribution, storage or control of goods and includes the provision of any services. [Competition Act, 2002 (12 of 2003), s. 2(x)]The ...


Manufacture

Manufacture, implies a change but every change is not manufacture. But something more is necessary and there must be transformation, a new and different article must emerge having a distinctive name, character or use, Hindustan Poles Corporation v. Commissioner of Central Excise, (2006) 4 SCC 85: (2006) 4 JT 185: (2006) 3 SCALE 601: (2006) 4 SLT 445: (2006) 3 SCJ 645: (2006) 6 SCJ D 230: (2006) 145 STC 625: (2006) 196 ELT 400.Manufacture, implies a change, but every change is not manufacture and yet every change of an article is the result of treatment, labour and manipulation. But something more is necessary and there must be transformation; a new and different article must emerge having a distinctive name, character or use, Union of India v. Delhi Cloth and General Mills, AIR 1963 SC 791.Implies a change, but every change is not manufacture and yet every change of an article is the result of treatment, labour and manipulation. But something more is necessary and there must be transfo...


Salary or wages

Salary or wages, means all remuneration (other than remuneration in respect of over-time work) capable of being expressed in terms of money, which would, if the terms of employment, express or implied, were fulfilled, be payable to an employee in respect of his employment or of work done in such employment and includes dearness allowance (that is to say, all cash payments, by whatever name called, paid to an employee on account of a rise in the cost of living), but does not include--(i) any other allowance which the employee is for the time being entitled to;(ii) the value of any house accommodation or of supply of light, water, medical attendance or other amenity or of any service or of any concessional supply of foodgrains or other articles.(iii) any travelling concession;(iv) any bonus (including incentive, production and attendance bonus);(v) any contribution paid or payable by the employer to any pension fund or provident fund or for the benefit of the employee under any law for t...


Precedent

Precedent, a decision is a precedent of its own features. Further, the enunciation of the reason or principle on which a question before a court has been decided is alone binding as a precedent, Uttaranchal Road Transport Corporation v. Mansaram Nainwal, (2000) 6 SCC 366.A precedent acquirers added authority from lapse of time, the longer a precedent has remained unquestioned, the more hard it becomes to reverse it. The courts has to adopt a construction of law, which would inevitably result in upsetting titles long founded on the contrary view, Pratap Bahadur Sahi v. Lakshmidhar Singh, AIR 1946 PC 189: 73 IA 231; Vijaya Charari v. Khubchand, AIR 1964 SC 1099.Precedent, are not an immutable dogma. Courts may evolve principles which are applicable to the facts involved in each case, Rumana Begum v. Government of Andhra Pradesh, 1992 Cr LJ 3512.Means every judgment must be based upon facts, declared by the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 to be relevant and duly proved. But when a Judge, in dec...


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