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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)]...
Controller
Controller [fr. Controle, Fr., the copy of a roll of accounts], an overseer or officer appointed to examine and verify the accounts of other officers, also Controller under Patents Act, 1911.Means the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks referred to in s. 73. [Patents Act, 1970 (39 of 1970), s. 2 (1) (b)]Means the Controller of Certifying Authorities appointed under sub-s. (l) of s. 17. [Information Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000), s. 2 (1) (m)]Means the Controller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks referred to in s. 3. [Designs Act, 2000 (16 of 2000), s. 2 (b)]Means the person appointed by the State Government to give effect to the provisions of this Act and includes every Additional, Deputy or Assistant Controller who may be authorised by the Controller under sub-s. (3) of s. 5 to exercise any power under this Act. [Dangerous Machines (Regulation) Act, 1983 (35 of 1983), s. 3 (b)]...
res ipsa loquitur
res ipsa loquitur Latin, the thing speaks for itself] : a doctrine or rule of evidence in tort law that permits an inference or presumption that a defendant was negligent in an accident injuring the plaintiff on the basis of circumstantial evidence if the accident was of a kind that does not ordinarily occur in the absence of negligence [a plaintiff who establishes the elements of res ipsa loquitur can withstand a motion for summary judgment and reach the jury without direct proof of negligence "Cox v. May Dept. Store Co., 903 P.2d 1119 (1995)"] NOTE: For res ipsa loquitur to apply, the accident in question must not be due to any voluntary action or contribution by the plaintiff. The doctrine has traditionally required that a defendant have exclusive control over the instrumentality of an injury, but now it is commonly applied when multiple defendants have joint or sometimes successive control (as by the manufacturer and retailer of a defective product). In addition to the control ...
Composite insurer
Composite insurer, means an insurer carrying on in addition to controlled business any other kind of insurance business. [Life Insurance Corporation Act, 1956 (14 of 1957), s. 2 (2)]...
standstill agreement
standstill agreement : an agreement providing for the preservation of the status quo for a specified or indefinite period: as a : an agreement under which litigation is forestalled between two parties b : an agreement under which a party agrees to refrain from taking further steps to acquire control of a corporation (as by additional purchases of stock) ...
tax stamp
tax stamp : a stamp affixed to an item as evidence that a tax on it has been paid ;esp : one that the dealer of a controlled substance is required to purchase by payment of a tax according to a state law [an additional count of failure to purchase a tax stamp] ...
Merchant shipping
Merchant shipping. The Acts relating to Merchant Shipping have been twice consolidated: first, in 1854, by 17 & 18 Vict. c. 104; and, secondly, in 1894, by the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60), which contains 748 ss. and 22 schedules, the 22nd Schedule containing 48 repealed enactments.By s. 713 of the (English) Act the Board of Trade exercises a general control over merchant shipping. Additions and amendments have been made to the Act of 1894 by various Acts, the most important of which re: the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1906,1907, 1911, 1920, and 1921; the Merchant Shipping (Stevedores and Trimmers) Act, 1911; the Merchant Shipping (Seamen's Allotment)Act, 1911; the Marine Conventions Act, 1911; Merchant Shipping (Certificates) Act, 1914; Merchant Shipping (Salvage)Act, 1916; Merchant Shipping (Wireless Telegraphy)Act, 1919; Merchant Shipping Acts (Amendment) Act, 1923; Fees (Increase) Act, 1923; Merchant Shipping (International Labour Conventions) Act, 1925; ...
Salami
Salami, 'salami' is a single payment made for the acquisition of the right of the lessor by the lessee to enjoy the benefits granted to him by the lease. That general right may properly be regarded as a capital asset and the money paid to purchase it may properly be held to be a payment on capital account, Maharaja Chintamani Saran Nath Sah Deo v. CIT, AIR 1972 SC 80 (81): (1971) 2 SCC 521: (1972) 1 SCR 36.'Salami' is defined as; 'a free gift by way of compliment or in return of a favour'. Salami is a payment by the tenant as a present or as price for parting by the landlord with his rights under the lease of a holding. It is a lump sum payment as consideration for what the landlord transfers to the tenant, Member for the Board of Agricultural Income Tax v. Sindhurani Chaudhurani, AIR 1957 SC 729 (733): (1955) SCALE 772: 1957 ITR 169.Salami, are (i) its single non-recurring character; and (ii) payment prior to the creation of the tenancy. It is the consideration, paid by the tenant for...
Controlled crop or plants
Controlled crop or plants, grown for any purpose, of the types or varieties of plants which are protected by the order in that area, and such additional kind of crops or plants whether grown or self-sown and whether of those or any other types or varieties, as may be specified in the order for the purpose of this definition in that area, Plant Varieties and Seeds Act, 1964, s. 33(4) (ii) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 1(2), para 623, p. 364....
Building
Building, defined by Lord Esher in Moir v. Williams, (1892) 1 QB 270, as an inclosure of brick or stone covered by a roof, and said by Park, J., in R. v. Gregory, (1833) 5 B. & Ad. At p. 561, not to include a wall; but the definition depends on circumstances, and may include a reservoir, Moran v. Marsland, (1909) 1 KB 744. The London Building Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. clviii.), has no definition. The term 'new building' was defined in s. 23 of the (English) Public Health Acts Amendment Act,1907 (c. 53) (now repealed); and see also Southend-on-Sea Corporation v. Archer, (1901) 70 LJ KB 328; South Shields Corporation v. Wilson, (1901) 84 LT 267. An old railway carriage will be a 'new building' if the interior arrangements are altered, Hanrahan v. Leigh Urban Council, (1909) 2 KB 257. An advertisement hoarding is a building within a restrictive covenant, Nussey v. Provincial Bill Posting Co., (1909) 1 Ch 734; Stevens v. Willing & Co. Ltd., 1929 WN 53. See also Paddington Corporation v...
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