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Amenity, the expression 'amenity' as defined in Rule 2(b) of the Rules is wider than 'development works', DLF Qutab Enclave Complex Educational Charitable Trust v. State of Haryana, (2003) 5 SCC 622 (634): AIR 2003 SC 1648. [Haryana Development and Regulation of Urban Areas Rules 1976, R. 2(b)]Amenity, includes roads, water supply, street lighting, drainage, sewerage, public building, horticulture, landscaping and any other public utility service, Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh v. Shantikunj Investment Pvt. Ltd., AIR 2006 SC 1270. [Capital of Punjab (Development and Regulation) Act, 2006]Construction of schools, hospitals, community centres, community buildings falls within the meaning of amenity, DLF Qutab Enclave Complex Educational Charitable Trust v. State of Haryana, (2003) 5 SCC 622.Means something tangible or intangible that increase the enjoyment of real property, such as location, view, landscaping, security, or access to recreational facilities, Black Law Dictionary, 7th E...
Amenable
Amenable [fr. amener, Fr., to lead unto].1. Tractable, that may be easily led or governed; formerly applied to a wife who is governable by her husband, Blount.2. Responsible or subject to answer, etc., in a Court of justice....
amenable
amenable 1 : legally subject or answerable [the corporation is not to suit in New York] 2 a : suited by nature [an adult is not to a juvenile treatment program] b : readily yielding, submitting, or cooperating [defendant is to rehabilitation "National Law Journal"] ame·na·bil·i·ty [ə-mē-nə-bi-lə-tē, -me-] n ...
amenity
amenity a feature of the home or property that serves as a benefit to the buyer but that is not necessary to its use; may be natural (like location, woods, water) or man-made (like a swimming pool or garden). Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
Improvement of towns
Improvement of towns. The (English) Towns Im-provement Clauses Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 34), 'comprises in one Act sundry provisions usually contained in' special Acts of Parliament theretofore passed 'for paving, draining, cleansing, lighting, and improving towns and populous districts,' to avoid the necessity for repeating such provisions in each special Act, and to ensure greater uniformity in the provisions themselves.Of this Act, ss. 64-83, which relate to the naming of streets and numbering of houses, to the improving the line of streets and removal of obstructions, to the securing or demolition of ruinous buildings, and to the taking precaution during the erection of works, and ss. 125-131, which relate to slaughter-houses, are incorporated with the (English) Public health Act, 1875, by ss. 160, 169 of that Act.The Town and Country Planning Act, 1932 (English) (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 48), a codifying Act, repealing the (English) Town and Country Planning Act, 1925, authorises loc...
Advertisement
Advertisement, [fr. avertissement, Fr.], a public notice or announcement of a thing.The duties payable on advertisements were repealed by 16 & 17 Vict. c. 63, s. 5.As to the protection afforded to Trustees and Personal Representatives by issuing an advertisement for creditors before distributing any real or personal property, see (English) Trustee Act, 1925, s. 27, amended by the (English) Law of Property (Amend.) Act, 1926, s. 7, and extending the (English) Law of Property Amendment Act, 1859 (22 & 23 Vict. c. 35), s. 29; Re Bracken, (1890) 43 Ch D 1.The regulation of advertisements is provided for by the (English) Advertisements Regulation Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 27), and the (English) Ancient Monuments Act, 1931 (20 & 21 Geo. 5), s. 7. See also Advertisements Regulation Act, 1925, respecting advertisements affecting the view or amenities of a village or historic building. Advertisements for stolen property may amount to an offer to compound a felony, and thus constitute an offence w...
Operator
Operator, means a person employed directly or by or through any agency (including a contractor, whether as a regular worker or as a casual worker, with or without the knowledge of the principal employer, whether for remuneration or not, in the operation or cleaning of any dangerous machine or any part thereof or in any other kind of work incidental to, or connected with, the operation or cleaning of any dangerous machine or any part thereof. [Dangerous Machines (Regulation) Act, 1983 (35 of 1983), s. 3(k)]Operator is defined by s. 2(b) of the Act as amended by Act 4 of 1973 as the owner or the person having possession or control of the vehicle and includes any person whose name is entered in the permit as the holder thereof. This definition is wide enough to include the appellant-company who was owner of the vehicles and on the date of the notice of demand it had further possession and control of the vehicles, Sundaram Finance Ltd. v. Regional Passport Officer, 1992 Supp (2) SCC 436: A...
Rent
Rent [fr. reditus Lat.], a certain profit issuing yearly out of lands and tenements corporeal; it may be regarded as of a two fold nature--first, as some-thing issuing out of the land, as a compensation for the possession during the term; and secondly, as an acknowledgment made by the tenant to the lord of his fealty or tenure. It must always be a profit, yet there is no necessity that it should be, as it usually is, a sum of money; for spurs, capons, horses, corn, and other matters, may be, and occasionally are, rendered by way of rent; it may also consist in services or manual operations, as to plough so many acres of ground and the like; which services, in the eye of the law, are profits. The profit must be certain, or that which may be reduced to a certainty by either party; it must issue yearly, though it may be reserved every second, third, or fourth year; it must issue out of the thing granted, and not be part of the land or the thing itself.Consideration paid, usu. periodically...
liable
liable [ultimately from Old French lier to bind, from Latin ligare] 1 : answerable according to law : bound or obligated according to law or equity [one is as an accomplice to the crime of another "W. R. LaFave and A. W. Scott, Jr."] [the estate is for succession taxes "Commissioner of Revenue Services v. Estate of Culpepper, 493 A.2d 297 (1985)"] 2 a : being in a position to incur used with to [ to a fire] [property to duties] b : subject or amenable according to law ...
Controllable
Capable of being controlled checked or restrained amenable to command...
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