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beaten up
worn by use into a deplorable condition...
Eggnog
A drink consisting of eggs beaten up with sugar milk and usually wine or spirits...
mayonnaise
A thick white sauce compounded of raw yolks of eggs beaten up with olive oil to the consistency near to that of a gel and seasoned with vinegar pepper salt etc used in dressing salads fish etc Also a dish dressed with this sauce...
omelet
A dish consisting of eggs beaten up with a little flour etc and cooked in a frying pan until just set into a semisolid consistency it may be folded around eg ham or cheese or jelly as a plain omelet When additional ingredients are mixed in the names of the ingredients may be mentioned in the name of the omelet as a ham and cheese omelet a bacon and cheese omelet...
Winding-up
Winding-up, the process by which an insolvent estate is distributed, as far as it will go, amongst the persons having claims upon it. The term is most frequently applied to the winding-up of joint-stock companies.The property of a company is collected and distributed firstly in discharge of its liabilities, and secondly, among its members according to their respective rights with a view to its dissolution. If the assets are not sufficient to meet the liabilities, a company is usually wound up by the Court. In other cases the winding-up is usually voluntary and conducted by the company itself either with or without the supervision of the Court. The provisions of the (English) Companies Act, 1929, govern a winding-up in any of these three modes (s. 156). In any winding-up the members who may be called upon to contribute are ascertained and their liability determined under ss. 157-162; see CONTRIBUTORIES. Debts and claims of all kinds require to be proved and if not of certain value to be...
Voluntary winding up and winding up by the court
Voluntary winding up and winding up by the court, the expressions 'voluntary winding up' and 'winding up by the Court' have acquired a technical meaning in our Company and Insurance jurisprudence. Like the Co-operative Society Laws, the Companies Act and the Insurance Act also make a distinction between the cessation of business by a company and its voluntary winding up or winding up by an order of the Court. There is nothing unequivocal in s. 15(a) of the Act to show that Parliament intended to depart from the technical meaning of 'voluntary winding up' and 'winding up by the Court' and to bid a good-bye to the distinction in our Company and Insurance jurisprudence between mere cessation of business by a company and its voluntary winding up or winding up by an order of the Court. The phrase 'voluntarily wound up' in the first limb would mean the voluntary winding up of an insurance public company in accordance with s. 54 of the Insurance Act, The Neptune Assurance Co. Ltd.v. Union of ...
wind up
wind up wound up wind·ing up : to bring to an end by taking care of unfinished business [ordered to wind up his practice] ;specif : to conclude by removing liabilities and distributing any remaining assets to partners or shareholders [wind up the business and affairs of a corporation in dissolution] [wind up a receivership] ...
Set up
Set up, means a unit cannot be said to have been set up, unless it is ready to discharge the function for which it is being set up. It is only when the unit has been put into such a shape that it can start functioning as a business or a manufacturing organization that it can be said that the unit has been set up. The word 'set up' in the principal clause is equivalent to the word established, CWT Madras v. RS Cotton Mills, AIR 1967 SC 509: (1967) 1 SCJ 123: (1967) 1 ITJ 1: (1967) 1 Andh WR (SC) 25: (1967) 1 Mad LJ (SC) 25: (1967) 63 ITR 478....
Affairs of a company have been completely wound up
Affairs of a company have been completely wound up, The phrase 'the affairs of a company have been completely wound up' significant. It shows that the expressions 'winding up of a company' and 'winding up of the affairs of a company' convey the same sense, for we think that the phrase 'the affairs of a company' means the business affairs of the company, The Neptune Assurance Company Ltd. v. Union of India (1973) 2 SCR 940: AIR 1973 SC 602: (1973) 1 SCC 310. [General Insurance (Emergency Provisions) Act (17 of 1971) s. 15(a)]...
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