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Additional Controller, Additional Controller includes joint controller, Deputy Controller and an assistant controller appointed under s. 5 [Standards of Weights and Measures(Enforcement) Act, (54 of 1985), s. 3 (a)]...
Patent of addition
Patent of addition, means a patent granted in accordance with s. 54. [The Patents Act, 1970, s. 2(g)]...
Structural alteration, addition or renewal
Structural alteration, addition or renewal, shall not be deemed to include any renewal or replacement of a petty nature, when the part or fitting used for replacement is not inferior in strength, efficiency of otherwise to the replaced part or fitting. [Boilers Act, 1923 (5 of 1923), s. 2(g)]...
In addition and without prejudice to any powers
In addition and without prejudice to any powers, in s. 14 of the Official Secrets Act 1923, is merely an enabling and not a barring provision and it reserves the inherent powers of the court to exclude the public from the proceedings if the court is of the opinion that it is just and expedient to do so, Superintendent and Remembrancer of Legal Affairs v. Satyen Bhowmick, AIR 1981 SC 917: (1981) 2 SCC 109: (1981) 2 SCR 661....
Additional accommodation
Additional accommodation, takes in both residential as well as non-residential building, Davis v. Sebastian, (1999) 6 SCC 604....
Additional legacy
Additional legacy, means a legacy given to a legatee in the same will or in a codicil to the same will that gave the first legacy, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 902....
Peccatum peccato addit qui culpe facit patrocium defensionis adjungit
Peccatum peccato addit qui culpe facit patrocium defensionis adjungit [Lat.], he adds one offence to another who, when he commits an offence, joins the protection of a defence....
Bonus
Bonus, premium or advantage; an occasional extra dividend; a gratuity. As to the respective rights of tenant for life and remaindermen in a bonus declared by a company, see Bouch v. Sproule, (1887) 12 App Cas 385; Re Northage, (1891) 60 LJ Ch 488, and see Palmer's Company Law, 15th Edn., 228.Means a premium paid in addition to what is due or expected e.g. year end bonus. In the employment context, worker's bonuses are not a gift or gratuity; they are paid for services or on consideration in addition or in excess of the compensation that would ordinarily be given; a payment made to the lessee for the execution of an oil-and-gas lease, the lessee received a large bonus at closing, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 176.Bonus is not, as its etymological meaning would suggest, a mere matter of bounty gratuitously made by the employer to his employees; nor is it a matter of deferred wages. It has been held by this Court in Muir Mills Co. Ltd. v. Suti Mills Mazdoor Union, Kanpur, (1955) 1 SC...
Wages
Wages, if the remuneration is to be paid daily or weekly, it can be called wages. But when it is monthly remuneration payable on the last day of the month or after that date, and when the remuneration considering the general standards of payments is fairly high, then it has to be understood as salary, K.V.V. Sharma (in re), (1952) 2 Mad LJ 917.Includes any bonus or other additional remunera-tion etc., and any sum 'payable to such person by reason of the termination of his employment, A.R. Sarin v. B.C. Patil, AIR 1951 Bom 423.Means remuneration payable to an employee under an award or settlement, Purshottam v. Potdar, AIR 1966 SC 856.Means remuneration which an employer is liable to pay, if the term of the contract of employment are fulfilled. In other words, they are payments made by an employer for services rendered, G.M. Joshi v. First Civil Judge, AIR 1958 Bom 262.Wages, ought to include gratuity as well, Tirjugi Sitaram v. Badlu Prasad Bheru Prasad, AIR 1962 MP 361.The compensatio...
Judge
Judge [fr. juge, Fr.; judex, Lat.], one invested with authority to determine any cause or question in a Court of judicature. The word 'judge' denotes not only every person who is officially designated as a judge but also every person who is empowered by law to give, in any legal proceeding, civil or criminal, definitive judgment, or a judgment which, if not appealed against, would be definitive, or a judgment which, is confirmed by some other authority, would be definitive or who is one of a body of persons which body of persons is em-powered by law to give such a judgement (Indian Penal Code, 1860, s. 19)To secure the dignity and political independence of the judges of the Supreme Court, it is enacted by s. 5 of the (English) Jud. Act, 1875 (replaced by Jud. Act, 1925, s. 12), repeating in effect a provision of the Act of Settlement (12 & 13 Wm. 3, c. 2), that the judges of the Supreme Court (with the exception of the Lord Chancellor, who goes out with the Ministry) shall hold their o...
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