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Artificial means, the exposure of the stud hole permits the insertion of foreign material inside the meter retarding the rotation of the inside disc, and is thus an 'artificial means' for preventing the meter from duly registering the energy supplied, Jagannath Singh v. B. S Ramaswamy, AIR 1966 SC 849 (851): (1966) 1 SCR 885. (Electricity Act, 1910, ss. 39 and 44)...
Abstraction
Abstraction, the word 'abstraction' in the context of s. 39 means taking or appropriation. Energy may be dishonestly abstracted by artificial means or unauthorised devices. For instance, energy before it passes through a consumer's meter may be abstracted from the main of the electric company by an unauthorised wire connecting the main with a private terminal, the connecting wire is the artificial means for abstraction, Jagannath Singh v. B.S. Ramaswamy, AIR 1966 SC 849 (850): (1966) 1 SCR 885. (Electricity Act, 1910 s. 39)...
Means of livelihood
Means of livelihood, the expression 'means of livelihood' in s. 11(2) had not been used in any artificial sense but in its ordinary meaning, that the said expression would mean resources of livelihood, that in ascertaining such recourses each case would depend on its own facts and circumstances, Mohan Lal v. Mohun Ram, AIR 1970 SC 1022: (1970) 3 SCC 177. [H.P. Abolition of Big Landed Estates and Land Reforms Act, 1954, s. 11 (2)]...
Rayon or artificial silk fabrics
Rayon or artificial silk fabrics, 'rayon or Artificial Silk Fabrics' includes varieties of fabrics manu-factured either wholly or partly from rayon or artificial silk but do not include any such fabrics... (iii) if it contains cotton and less than 60 per cent by weight of rayon or artificial silk;...' Union of India v. Ahmedabad Manufacturing and Calico Printing Co. Ltd., AIR 1986 SC 121 (122): (1985) 3 SCC 693: (1985) Supp 2 SCR 537. [Central Excise and Salt Act Act, (1 of 1944), Sch. I, Item No. 22]...
Accession
Accession [fr. accedo, Lat.], addition, arriving at, the commencement of a sovereign's reign; also the absolute or conditional acceptance by a nation of a treaty already concluded between other countries. The accession of a sovereign takes place immediately upon the death of the preceding monarch. See BILL OF RIGHTS.Accession, means property by. The doctrine of property arising from accession is grounded on the right of occupancy, and derived from the Roman Law; thus if any given corporeal substance receive an accession, either by natural or artificial means, as by the growth of vegetables, the pregnancy of animals, the embroidering of cloth, or the conversion of wood or metal into utensils, the original owner of the thing was entitled by his right of possession to the property of it under its improved state; but if the thing itself by such operation was changed into a different species, as by making wine, oil, or bread out of another's grapes, olives, or wheat (specificatio, Lat.), it...
Dependent
Dependent, 'dependent' has a wholly artificial meaning different from its statutory definition. No coparcener in a Hindu undivided family is a dependent of the family; he is an owner of the entire property of the family in common with the other coparceners. His rights arise on birth into the family, and so long as the family remains joint, his internest in the property is no whit less than the interest of any other coparcener, C.F.T. v. Darshan Surendra Parekh, AIR 1968 SC 1125: (1968) 2 SCR 589. [Expenditure Tax Act, 1957, s. 2(g)]Means any person who is related to an emigrant and is dependent on that emigrant. [Emigration Act, 1983 (31 of 1983), s. 2(1)(c)]...
Normal labour or normal delivery
Normal labour or normal delivery, means series of process by which the nature products of conception are expelled from the another's body and during which no artificial means are used, Mahendra v. Sushila, AIR 1965 SC 364 (388). (Evidence Act, 1872, s. 112)...
Flathead
Characterized by flatness of head especially that produced by artificial means as a certain tribe of American Indians...
Hypnotism
A form of sleep or trance in some respects resembling somnambulism but brought on by artificial means in which there is an unusual suspension of some powers and an unusual activity of others especially a heightened susceptibility to suggestion It is induced by an action upon the nerves through the medium of the senses by causing the subject to gaze steadily at a very bright object held before the eyes or on an oscillating object or by pressure upon certain points of the surface of the body usually accompanied by the speaking of the hypnotist in quiet soothing tones Called also hypnosis...
artificial
artificial 1 a : made by humans [ accessions] compare natural b : caused or produced by a human and esp. social or political agency [an price advantage] 2 : arising through operation of law ar·ti·fi·cial·ly adv ...
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