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Animal article

Animal article, 'animal article' means an article made from any captive animal or wild animal, other than vermin, and includes an article or object in which the whole or any part of such animal has been used, and ivory imported into India and an article made there form. [Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972, s. 2(2)]...


Scheduled animal article

Scheduled animal article, means an article made from any schedule animal and includes an article or object in which the whole or any part of such animal has been used but does not include tail feather of peacock, an article or trophy made therefrom and shake venom or its derivative. [Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 (53 of 1972), s. 49A (b)]...


Dealer, auction

Dealer, auction, a person who in the normal course of his business attends sales by auction for the purpose of purchasing goods with a view to reselling them, Auctions (Bidding Agreements) Act, 1927, s. 1(2) (UK), Halsbury's Laws of England (2), para 944, p. 461.means a person carrying on the business of selling fertilisers, whether wholesale or retail (or industrial use), and includes a manufacturer and a pool-handling agency carrying on such business and the agents of such person, manufacturer or pool-handling agency, State of Punjab v. Gunomajra Cooperative Agriculture Service Society Ltd., (2000) 9 SCC 210.There is nothing either in the main definition in s. 2(5) or in the Explanation of the Orissa Taxation (on Goods Carried by Road and Inland Water ways) Act, 1959 to suggest that the manager or agent of the dealer (principal) should have his own business within the State of Orissa before he could be proceeded against or assessed under the Act. It would be sufficient if the manager...


Animals

Animals may be divided into--(1) Domestic animals, such as dogs, horses, cows, etc., sometimes called animals mansuet' natur'. See White v. Fox, 48 TLR 641.(2) Animals that are naturally dangerous, i.e., wild beasts, such as lions, bears, etc.(3) Animals fer' natur', butharmless, such as hares, pheasants, partridges, etc. see FER' NATUR' and GAME.Animals of the first or second class are ordinary subjects of property in this country. But there is no property in those of the third class until they are caught or reclaimed. As to the liability of the owner for mischief done by a wild beast, or by a vicious domestic animal, see MISCHIEVOUS ANIMAL.Dogs. As to injury by dogs and seizure of stray dogs, see DOG.Malicious Damage. By the Malicious Damage Act, 1861, s. 40, the unlawful and malicious killing, maiming, or wounding of cattle is made a felony. And by s. 41, the unlawful and malicious killing or wounding any animal not being cattle, but being the subject of larceny at Common Law, or be...


Article

Article [articulus, Lat.], a complaint exhibited in the Ecclesiastical Court by way of libel. The different parts of a libel, responsive allegation, or counter allegation in the Ecclesiastical Courts.Means (as respects standardisation and marking) any substance, artificial or natural, or partly artificial or partly natural, whether raw or partly or wholly processed or manufactured. [Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 1986 (63 of 1986), s. 2 (a)]An article of the Constitution. [Representation of the People Act, 1950 (43 of 1950), s. 2 (a)]Any article of manufacture and any substance, artificial, or partly artificial and partly natural; and includes any part of an article capable of being made and sold separately. [Designs Act, 2000 (16 of 2000), s. 2 (a)]A machine is a tangible thing which can both be seen and felt and as such it answers the description of an 'article' within the meaning of s. 2(b) (iii) of the Act, Zaffar Mohd v. State of West Bengal, AIR 1976 SC 171 (172). [Drugs and Mag...


Articles of religion

Articles of religion, commonly called the Thirty-nine Articles, a body of divinity drawn up by the convocation in 1562, required of the clergy to be subscribed to by 13 Eliz. C. 12, and confirmed by James I. Consult Burnet's Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles.' The Oxford University Act, 1854 (17 & 18 Vict. c. 81), ss. 43, 44, has rendered unnecessary subscription to these Articles, or any oath, on matriculating or on taking a degree in the University of Oxford; and the Cambridge University Act, 1856 (19 & 20 Vict. c. 88), ss. 45, 46, contains a similar enactment in regard to the University of Cambridge; a declaration of assent to them is required by the Clerical Subscription Act, 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 122) (see CLERICAL SUBSCRIPTION), to be subscribed by every deacon or priest before ordination, and also by every person about to be instituted to a benefice, or licensed to a perpetual curacy; every such person being also required to read the Articles publicly in church on the firs...


Association, Articles of

Association, Articles of, (see Companies Act, 1929, ss. 6, 11 and 380). This is the formal contract of the members of a company with each other and with the company embodying its regulations for the conduct of the company and its affairs according to its constitution under the Memorandum of Association. In case of conflict the Memorandum is to prevail, Ashbury Railway Carriage Co. v. Riche, (1875) 7 HL 653. The Articles may be altered or added to by special resolution, Companies Act, 1929, s. 10, but not so as to increase a member's liability without his consent in writing to take more shares than subscribed for by him, or to contribute to the share capital, or to pay money to the company, s. 22. Every member is entitled to a copy of the Memorandum and Articles of the company on payment of one shilling or smaller agreed sum. The Memorandum and Articles must be delivered to and retained and registered by the Registrar of Companies, s. 12, and when registered they bind the company and it...


Fer' natur', animals

Fer' natur', animals. Beasts and birds of a wild disposition, such as deer, hares, coneys in a warren, pheasants, partridges, etc., as distingui-shed from those domit' natur', or tame, such as horses, sheep, poultry, etc. They are not whilst living the subjects of absolute property, so that they cannot be the subject of larceny, nor are they liable to distress for rent. But a man may acquire a qualified property in them, either (1) Per industriam, by his reclaiming and making them tame by art and industry, or by so confining them that they cannot escape, e.g., deer in a park, hares or rabbits in an enclosed warren, etc. The property in them only continues so long as they remain in a man's actual possession, but ceases if they regain their liberty, unless they have animus revertendi, as in the case of pigeons, tame hawks, etc. (2) Ratione impotenti', on account of their inability, as when birds, coneys, etc., make their nests or burrows on a mans' land, then he has a qualified property ...


Animal

Animal, 'Animal' means any living creature other than a human being. [Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960 (59 of 1960), s. 2(a)]Animal includes mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians fish, other chordates and invertebrates and also includes their young and eggs. [Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 (53 of 1972), s. 2(a)]In common parlance animal is understood as a quadruped creature but fish is also an animal but of a different kind. Prawn is included in the definition of fish as given in the Maritime Zones of India (Regulation of Fishing by Foreign Vessels) Act and has all the essential attributes of an animal viz. life, sensation and voluntary motion. It is therefore not possible to accept the contention that prawn is not a livestock, I.T.C. v. Person in charge, Agricultural Market Committee, (2004) 2 SCC 794 (799): AIR 2004 SC 1796. [Maritime Zones of India (Regulations of Fishing by Foreign Vessels) Act, 1981, ss. 2(b), 3 & 12]The word 'animal' denotes any living creature, other ...


New article

New article, in relation to an industrial undertaking which is registered or in respect of which a licence or permission has been issued under this Act, means--(a) any article which falls under an item in the First Schedule other than the item under which articles ordinarily manufactured or produced in the industrial undertaking at the date of registration or issue of the licence or permission, as the case may be, fall;(b) any article which bears a mark as defined in the Trade Marks Act, 1940, or which is the subject of a patent, if at the date of registration or issue of the licence or permission, as the case may be, the industrial undertaking was not manufacturing or producing such article bearing that mark or which is the subject of that patent. [Industries (Development and Regulation) Act, 1951 (65 of 1951), s. 3 (dd)]...


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