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Dealer, auction

words the place of residence or of business of the manager of the agent is utterly irrelevant. The artificial definition of a 'dealer' under the Explanation is merely an enabling provision which facilitates the assessment against a … Dealer, auction, a person who in the normal course of his business attends sales by auction for the purpose of purchasing goods

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 … 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),

Reasonableness of classification

to pass the test of permissible classification under Article 14 is that the classification must not be 'arbitrary, artificial or evasive' but must be based on some real and substantial distinction bearing a just and reason-able relation … Reasonableness of classification, it is clear that Article 14 does not forbid reasonable classification of persons, objects and transactions by the legislature for the purpose of attaining specific ends. What is necessary in order

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1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 45), contains analogous provisions for securing to agriculturists the purity of artificial manures and feeding stuffs for cattle, etc. … ADULTERATION), provision is made for the appointment in every district by the local authorities of one or more persons possessing competent medical, chemical, and miscroscopical knowledge as analysts of all Articles of food and drink. An article

Reasonable requirement

Reasonable requirement, belongs to the knowledge of the law and means reasonable not in the mind of the person requiring the accommodation but reasonable according to the actual facts, Damodar Sharma v. Nandram Deviram, AIR 1960 MP … opposed to a mere desire or wish. The connotation of the term 'need' or 'requirement; should not be artificially extended nor its language so unduly stretched or strained so as to make it impossible or extremely difficult

Harbour

England, 4th Edn., Vol. 36, para 401, p. 231. Means a harbour property so called whether natural or artificial, estuary, navigable river, pier, jetty, and other work in or at which ships can obtain shelter or ship … s. 130 in the case in which the harbour is given by the wife or husband of the person harboured, the word 'harbour' includes the supplying a person with shelter, food, drink, money, clothes, arms, ammunition or

Abortion

the contents of the womb before the term of gestation is completed. By the (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. C. 100), s. 58, the unlawful administration of drugs or unlawful use … of inducing premature labour in certain cases of disease,' see. Tayl. Med. Jur. Abortion, means the spontaneous or artificially induced expulsion of an embryo or foetus, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 5. Means no more than

Gas

'gaswork'. In Ballantine Law Dictionary, 3rd Edn., 1969 'gasworks' is defined as 'a plant for the manufacture of artificial gas'. Similarly in Web-ster's New 20th Century Dictionary, it is defined as 'an establishment in which gas for … Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 50), s. 23), any urban authority may contract with any person for the supply of gas or other means of lighting their district, and provide lamps and other materials

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