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Amusement, Amusement would mean diversion, pastime or enjoyment or a pleasurable occupation of the senses, or that which furnished it, M.J. Sivani v. State of Kamataka, AIR 1995 SC 1770 (1772): (1995) 6 SCC 289. (Banglore City Licencing and Controlling of Places of Public Amusements Order, 1989)...
Place of public amusement
Place of public amusement, s. 2(k) 'place of public amusement' means any place where music, singing, dancing, or game or any other amusement, diversion or recreation or the means of carrying on the same is provided, to which the public are admitted either on payment of money or with the intention that money may be collected from those admitted and includes a race course, circus, theatre, music hall, billiard or bagatelle room, gymnasium, fencing school, swimming pool or dancing hall. [Delhi Police Act, 1978 (34 of 1978) s. 2(e)]...
Amusements
Amusements, words 'entertainments' and 'amusements' are wide enough to include theaters,dramatic performances, cinemas, sports and the like, Y.V. Srinivasamurthy v. State of Mysore, AIR 1959 SC 894 (896). (Constitution of India, Sch VII List II, Entry 62, 63)...
Entertainments amusements
Entertainments amusements, the words 'enter-tainments' and 'amusements' are wide enough to include theatres, dramatic performances, cinemas, sports and the like, Y.V. Srinivasamurthy v. State of Mysore, AIR 1959 SC 894. [Karnataka Cinemato-graph Shows Tax Act, 1951 (16 of 1951), s. 3]...
Entertainment
Entertainment, In Stroud's Judicial Dictionary (4th Edn., Vol. 2, p. 916) the word 'entertainment' has been defined thus:Entertainment ..... for a public or special occasion ...... is an entertainment in the sense of a gathering of persons for entertainment.Entertainment (Small Lotteries and Gaming Act, 1956) c. 45, s. 4(1) included a tombola drive alone without accompanying festivities.The monologue or patter of a comedian, even if delivered at an entertainment provided by an institution whose activities are parly educational, was held to be a variety 'entertainment' within the meaning of the section.Similarly in Words and Phrases, Judicially Defined (Vol. 2, pp. 206- 207) the word entertainment has been defined thus:Entertainment is something connected with the enjoyment of refreshment-rooms, tables, and the like. It is something beyond refreshment; it is the accommodation provided, whether that includes a musical or other amusement or not.Similarly in Words and Phrases (Permanent Ed...
Service
Service [fr. servitium, Lat.], that duty which a tenant, by reason of his estate, owes to his lord. There are many divisions of this duty in our ancient law books, as into personal and real, which is either urbane or rustic, free and base, continua land annual, casual and accidental, intrinsic and extrinsic, certain and uncertain, etc. see TENURE.The formal delivery of a writ, summons of other legal process 2. The formal delivery of some other legal notice such as pleading, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1372.The formal mode of bringing a writ or other process, or a notice in a suit, to the knowledge of the person affected by it.The service of writs of summons is regulated by (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. IX., which by r. 1 dispenses wit service, when (as is usual) the defendant, by his solicitor, agrees to accept service, and enters an appearance. By r. 2, service, when required, must be personal, unless an order for 'substituted service, or the substitution of notice for service,...
Merry go round
Any revolving contrivance for affording amusement esp a group of seats in the shape of hobbyhorses or other fanciful animals arranged in a circle on a platform that is rotated by a mechanical drive often to the accompaniment of music the seats often move up and down in synchrony with the rotation called also carousel It is employed primarily for the amusement of children and is typically found at an amusement park...
Roller coaster
An amusement railroad of varying design in which open cars coast by gravity over a long winding track in a closed circuit with steep pitches and ascents and in some cases loops in which the cars are briefly upside down typically the cars are pulled by a chain device to the top of the first peak after which gravity and momentum provide the only propulsive forces In some cases the cars are suspended from a monorail rather than resting on a track and such cars may be made to swing outward at an angle near to the horizontal It is a popular amusement at many amusement parks but is sufficiently frightening to some people that they refuse to ride in one...
pastime
That which amuses and serves to make time pass agreeably sport amusement diversion as that great American pastime baseball...
Luxury
Luxury, as an entirely relative term; a free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastees; also a mode of life characterized by material abundance and gratification of expensive tastes, (Corpus Juris Secundum, Vol. IV, p. 887).Luxury, could among other meanings be defined as (1) abundance, sumptuous enjoyment; (2) the habitual use of, or indulgence in, what is choice or costly; (3) refined and intense enjoyment; means of luxurious enjoyment; (4) in a particularized sense; something which conduces to enjoyment or comfort in addition to what are accounted the necessaries. Hence, in recent use, something which is desirable but not indispensable; and (5) as an attribute as luxury coach, cruise duty, edition, flat, liner, shop, tax, trade, Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edn., Vol. IX.Means something which conduces enjoyment over and above the necessaries of life. It denotes something which is superfluous and not indispensable and...
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