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Development Commissioners

of co-operation, instruction in marketing produce, and the extension of the provision of small holdings; and by the adoption of any other means which appear calculated to develop agricultural and rural industries; (b) Forestry (including (1) the

Household

Household, means the members of family related to each other by blood, marriage or adoption and normally residing together and sharing meals or holding a common ration card [National Rural Employment Guarantee Act,

Enacting formula

disposed of, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha, 10th Edn., 2002, p. 92. Was adopted in 1954. It proceeds the clauses of the Bill, Practice and Procedure of Parliament, M.N. Kaul and S.L.

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Escheat

its right by escheat in favour of the family of the intestate, or of any person considered or adopted as part of his family, as pointed out by 59 Geo. 4, c. 94. See Hubback on Succession,

Floor crossing

Floor crossing, is the seating arrangements adopted in most of the Parliaments of the British Commonwealth, whereby the party in power and the opposition sit

Food and sale

emphasise that it is immaterial for the purposes of the Act what manner and method of sale is adopted. To give any other interpretation to the definition of 'sale' would be to exclude from the ambit of

Fraud

power. It may arise due to overstepping the limits of power or defeating the provision of statute by adopting subterfuge or the power may be exercised for extraneous or irrelevant considerations. The colour of fraud in public

Gas

Calorific Power) Act, 1916 (6 & 7 Geo. 5, c. 25). Finally, the thermal system of charge was adopted, see (English) Gas Regulation Act, 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 28). The heat unit of charge

Gavelkind

and sell his estate for money; but the livery upon the feoffment (the only assurance which could be adopted) had to be made by the heir in person; for, being under age, he could not, by the

Hindu joint family

of a group of persons who are united by the tie of sapindaship arising by birth, marriage or adoption, Surjit Lal Chhabda v. CIT, AIR 1976 SC 109 (114): (1976) 3 SCC 142.

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