Bait And Switch - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: bait and switchBait and switch
Bait and switch, means a sales practice whereby a merchant advertises a low-priced product to lure customers into the store only to induce them to buy a higher priced product. Most States prohibit the bait and switch when the original product is not actually available are advertised, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 137....
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Enclosed switch-station
Enclosed switch-station, means any premises or en-closure or part thereof, being large enough to admit the entrance of a person after the apparatus therein is in position, containing apparatus for switching, controlling or otherwise regulating energy at or above medium voltage but not for transforming or converting energy (other than for transforming or converting solely for the operation of switchgear or instruments), and includes the apparatus therein. [Indian Electricity Rules, 1956, R. 2 (1) (u)]...
Baiting animals
Baiting animals. The fighting or baiting of any animal, or being concerned therein in any way, is punishable as 'cruelty,' under s. 1(1) of the (English) Protection of Animals Act, 1911, and the (English) Protection of Animals Act (1911) its Amendment Act, 1912, by fine, or imprisonment for not exceeding three months, or both....
Bull baiting
Bull baiting. See BAITING....
Knife switch
A switch consisting of one or more knifelike pieces hinged at one end and making contact near the other with flat gripping springs...
Point switch
A switch made up of a rail from each track both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track...
Jamaican switch
Jamaican switch, means an illegal scheme whereby one conspirator convinces the victim of a need for help in handling a large sum of money, usu. by claiming to be an unsophisticated foreigner and promises to share part of the money with the victim or asks the victim for help in finding a suitable charity to donate to, at which time the other conspirator appears and promises to assist if both the victim and first conspirator provide good-faith money, the intent being for the two conspirators to leave with all the money, including the victim's, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 839....
Public switched telephone network
Public switched telephone network, means a network set up and operated by Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited/Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, or other Licensed Basic Service providers for the specified purpose of providing fixed communication between subscribers using telephone sets/accessories. [Regulation on Quality of Service of Basic and Cellular Mobile Telephone Service, 2005 (11 of 2005), R. 2(xii)]...
Detector bar
A bar connected with a switch longer than the distance between any two consecutive wheels of a train 45 to 50 feet laid inside a rail and operated by the wheels so that the switch cannot be thrown until all the train is past the switch...
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