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Telephone

Union of India, AIR 1996 Kant 189. Telephone. See TELEGRAPHS, and the Telephone Transfer Act, 1911, and the amending Act of the same year, 1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 56, and later amending Acts.

Text

Text, the word 'text', in its dictionary meaning, means 'subject or theme'. When an enactment amends the text of another, it amends the subject or theme of it, though sometimes it may expunge unnecessary

This Act

'this Act' refer to the principal Act in which s. 3 (2) is inserted by virtue of the amend-ment, and that Act, by virtue of s. 2(2) as amended, must be deemed to have come into force

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Tribunal

a judge; a Court of justice. As defined by s. 2(r) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, as amended by Act 36 of 1956, read with amending Act, 18of 1957, empowers the govern-ment to Transfer a reference

Trout

s. 32, buying and selling of trout is prohibited between 31st August and 1st March, but by the Amendment Act, 1929, makes certain exemptions, the most important of which is canned, frozen, or otherwise preserved, trout.

Variance

very liberal in permitting variances in proceedings to be amended, especially where parties will suffer no prejudice. See AMENDMENT. A difference or disparity between two statements or documents that ought to agree especially in criminal procedure; a

Designs

Designs. The registration of and rights in designs are governed by the Patents and Designs Act, 1907, as amended by the Patents and Designs Acts,1919, 1928 and 1932 (cited as the Patents and Designs Acts, 1907 to

Witness

In civil cases, as a rule, husband and wife are competent and compellable witnesses against each other [Evidence Amendment Act, 1853 (16 & 17 Vict. c. 83), s. 1], but husbands and wives are not compellable to

Prevention of Crimes Act, 1871

subjecting to the supervision of the police persons who have been twice convicted of crime, and for the amendment of the law with regard to licences under the Penal Servitude Acts. See also PREVENTIVE DETEN-TION; BORSTAL INSTITUTION;

Voluntary conveyance

Property Act, 1925] This Act (ss. 172 and 173) repeals and reproduces the Acts above referred to with amendments. 'Good faith' appears to mean 'as between grantor and grantee,' since an intent to defraud creditors is the

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