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Specially appointed

Specially appointed, the expressional 'specially appointed' means appointment for specific purpose, AIR 1965 Pat 446 (447). [Bihar Panchayat Election Rules, 1959 r. 2(9)]The word 'specially' has reference to the special purpose of appointment and is not used to convey the sense of a special as against a general appointment. The word 'specially' thus connotes the appointment of an officer or officers to perform functions which ordinarily Collector would perform under the Act. It qualifies the word 'appointed' and means no more than that he is appointed specially to perform the functions entrusted by the Act to the Collector, Abdul Hussain Tayabali v. State of Gujarat, AIR 1968 SC 432 (436). [Land Acquisition Act, 1894, s. 3(c)]...


Solatium

Solatium, Solatium as the word goes, is 'money comfort', quantified by the statute, and given as a conciliatory measure for the compulsory acquisition of the land of the citizen, by a welfare State such as ours, Narain Das Jain v. Agra Nagar Mahapalika, (1991) 4 SCC 212 (215).Compensation esp., damages allowed for hurt feelings or grief, as distinguished from damages for physical injury, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1397....


Requires

Requires, the word 'requires' in s. 13(1)(g) of the Bombay Rents Hotel and Lodging House Rates (Control) Act, 1947 means that there must be an element of need before a landlord can be said to 'require' premises for his own use and occupation. It is not enough that the landlord should merely desire to use and occupy the premises. What is necessary is that he should need them for his own use and occupation, Phiroze Bamanji Desai v. Chandarkant M. Patel, AIR 1974 SC 1059 (1063): (1974) 1 SCC 661: (1974) 3 SCR 267.The word 'require' in s. 18 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 implies compulsion, Mohammed Hasnuddin v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1979 SC 404 (411): (1979) 2 SCC 572: (1979) 2 SCR 265....


Charity

Charity, the word 'charity' which in common parlance is a word denoting a giving to some one in necessitous circumstances and in law a giving for public good. A private gift to one's own self or kith and kin may be meritorious and pious but is not a charity in the legal sense and the courts in India have never regarded such gifts as for religious or charitable purposes even under the Mahomedan Law, Fazlul Rabbi Pradhan v. State of West Bengal, AIR 1965 SC 1722 (1727). [West Bengal Estates Acquisition Act, 1953 (1 of 1954), s. 6(1)(i)]Aid given to the poor, the suffering, or the general community for religious, educational, economic, public-safety, or medical purposes, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 228.Charity, means any institution, trust or undertaking, whether corporate or not, which is established solely for charitable purposes, (English) Banking Act, 1987; (Exempt Transactions) Regulations, 1988, reg. 3(2); Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 3(1), para 30, p. 26....


Nationalisation

Nationalisation, the expression 'nationalisation' means 'the acquisition and control of privately owned business by government', Maharashtra State Electricity Board v. Thana Electric Supply Co., AIR 1990 SC 153 (164): (1989) 3 SCC 709: (1989) 2 SCR 544. [Preamble General Insurance (Emergency Provisions) Act]...


Deputy Commissioner

Deputy Commissioner, 'deputy Commissioner' includes an Assistant Commissioner in charge of a sub-division of a State, AIR 1977 SC 2030. [Mysore Land Acquisition Act, s. 3(c)]...


Allowed

Allowed, may mean some positive sanction and not mere slackness on the part of the competent authority in not taking action for getting the premises vacated, Maheshchandra Trikamji Gajjar v. State of Maharashtra, (2003) 3 SCC 295. [Bombay Land Acquisition Act, 1948, s. 5(1A) and 15B]...


Acquired possession

Acquired possession, The words 'acquired possession' or 'keeping' in clause (b) of s. 135(1) are not to be restricted to 'possession' or 'keeping'acquired as an owner or a purchaser of the goods. the expression 'acquired possession' is of very wide amplitude and will certainly include theacquisition of possession by a person in a capacity other than as owner or purchaser. [Customs Act, 1962, s. 135(1)(b)], State of Maharashtra v. Natwarlal Damodaradas Soni, AIR 1980 SC 593: (1980) 2 SCR 340....


Proficience

The quality of state of being proficient advance in the acquisition of any art science or knowledge progression in knowledge improvement adeptness as to acquire proficiency in music...


erudition

The act of instructing the result of thorough instruction the state of being erudite or learned the acquisitions gained by extensive reading or study particularly learning in literature or criticism as distinct from the sciences scholarship...



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