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Utility, means any person or entity engaged in the generation, transmission, sale, distribution or supply, as the case maybe, of energy. [Electricity Regulatory Commissions Act, 1998 (14 of 1998), s. 2 (l)]Means the electric lines or electrical plant, and includes all lands, buildings, works and materials attached thereto belonging to any person acting as a generating company or licensee under the provisions of this Act. [Electricity Act, 2003 (36 of 2003), s. 2(75)]Means equipment or material used in providing such a service or commodity, Ware v. Public Serv. Co., 412 A. 2d 84 (1980).Means the electric lines or electrical plant, and includes all lands, buildings words and materials attached thereto belonging to any person acting as a generating company or license under the provisions of the Act, Electricity Act, 2003, s. 2(75); A.P. Gas Power Corporation Ltd. v. A.P. Electricity Regulatory Commission, AIR 2006 AP 13....
Separate estate
Separate estate. The Common Law did not allow a married woman to posses any property independently of her husband, but when property was settled to her separate use and benefit, equity treated her, in respect to that property, as a feme sole, or unmarried woman. A wife's separate property might be acquired by a pre-nuptial contract with her husband, or by gift, either from the husband, or from any other person. the (English) Married Women's Property Act, 1882 (see MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY), almost abolished the Common Law distinction between married and unmarried women in respect of property, and the amending (English) Act of 1893 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 63) provided (s. 1) that:-1. Every contract hereafter entered into by a married woman otherwise than as agent,(a) shall be deemed to be a contract entered into by her with respect to and to bind her separate property whether she is or is not in fact possessed of or entitled to any separate property at the time when she enters into such contr...
Respectively
Respectively, means belonging or relating separately to each of several people, Canara Bank v. Demasis Das, (2003) SCC 557.The expression 'respectively', means belonging or relating separately to each of several people. It is a word of severance, Canara Bank v. Debasis Das, (2003) 4 SCC 557. [Canara Bank Officer Employees' (Conduct) Regulations, 1976, Regn 6(18), 6(21) (7)]...
Religious endowment or endowment
Religious endowment or endowment, the ex-pression 'religious endowment' or 'endowment' has been defined in clause (11) of s. 9 as follows: 'Religious endowment' or 'Endowment' means all property belonging to, or given or endowed for the support of maths or temples or for the performance of any service or charity connected therewith and includes the premises of maths or temple but does not include gifts of property made as personal gifts or offerings to the head of a math or to the archaka or other employee of a temple. It follows that 'all property' belonging to, or given or endowed for the support of a temple or for the performance of any service or charity connected with the temple will constitute its endowment, including the premises of the temple, Commissioner v. Sri Ratnavarma Heggade, AIR 1977 SC 1848: (1977) 1 SCC 525: (1977) 1 SCR 889....
Net wealth
Net wealth, 'net wealth' means the amount by which the aggregate value computed in accordance with the provisions of this Act of all the assets wherever located, belonging to the assessee on the valuation date, including assets required to be included in his net wealth as on that date under this Act, Commissioner of Wealth Tax v. Bishwanath Chatterjee, AIR 1976 SC 1492 (1494): (1976) 3 SCC 385: (1976) 3 SCR 1096. [Wealth Tax Act, 1957, ss. 2(m) and 21(5)]It means the amount by which the aggregate value computed in accordance with the provisions of this Act of all the assets, wherever located, belonging to the assessee on the valuation date, including assets required to be included in his net wealth as on that date under this Act, is in excess of the aggregate value of all the debts owed by the assessee on the valuation date which have been incurred in relation to the said assets. [Wealth-tax Act, 1957 (27 of 1957), s. 32 (m)]A coparcenary has unity of possession but not unity of owners...
Goodwill
Goodwill, may be the whole advantage belonging to the firm, its reputation as also connection thereof. It, thus, means that every affirmative advantage as contrasted with negative advantage that has been acquired in carrying on the business whether connected with the premises of business or its name or style, everything connected with or carrying the benefit of the business, Ramnik Vallabhdas Madhwani v. Taraben Pravinlal Madhwani, (2004) 1 SCC 407: AIR 2004 SC 1084 (Partnership Act, 1932, s. 55).A business's reputation, patronage, and other intan-gible assets that are considered when apprising the business, esp. for purchase; The ability to earn income in excess of the an come that would be expected from the business veined as a mere collec-tion of assets, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 703.The advantage or benefit which is acquired by a business, beyond the mere value of the capital, stock, funds, or property employed therein, incon-sequence of the general public patronage and ...
Enemy
Enemy, means:(i) any person or country committing external aggression against India,(ii) any person belonging to a country committing such aggression,(iii) such other country as may be declared by the Central government to be assisting the country committing such aggression,(iv) any person belonging to such other country.[Personal Injuries (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1962, s. 2(3),One who opposes or inflicts injury on another;an antagonist, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 548.Includes all armed mutineers, armed rebels, armed rioters, pirates and any person in arms against whom it is the duty of any person subject to this Act to take action. [Border Security Force Act, 1968 (47 of 1968), s. 2 (1) (j)]It includes all armed mutineers, armed rebels, armed rioters, pirates and any person in arms against whom it is the duty of any person subject to military law to act. [Army Act, 1950 (46 of 1950), s. 3 (x)]It includes all armed mutineers, armed rebels, armed rioters, pirates and any pe...
Employer
Employer, means (i) a company; (ii) a firm; (iii) an association of persons or a body of individuals, whether incorporated or not, but excluding any fund or trust or institution eligible for exemption under clause (23C) of section 10 or registered under section 12AA; (iv) a local authority; and (v) every artificial judicial person, not falling within any of the preceding sub-clauses. [Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), s. 115W(a)]Employer, means:A person who controls and direct a worker under an express or implied contract of hire and who pays the workers salary or wages, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.(a) in relation to contract labour, the principal employer, and(b) in relation to other labour, the person who has the ultimate control over the affairs of any establishment or who has, by reason of his advancing money, supplying goods or otherwise, a substantial interest in the control of the affairs of any establishment, and includes any other person to whom the affairs of the establi...
Thames
Thames. See (English) Thames Conservancy Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii.); defined in s. 3 as meaning and including:-So much of the rivers Thames and Isis respectively as are between the town of Cricklade and an imaginary straight line drawn from the entrance to Gantlet creek in the county of Kent to the City stone opposite to Canve Island in the county of Essex and so much of the river Kennet as is between the Common landing-place at Reading in the county of Berks and the river Thames and so much of the river Lee and Bow creek respectively as are below the south boundary stones in the Lee Conservancy Act, 1868, mentioned and all locks, cuts, and works within the said portions of rivers and creeks:Provided that no dock, lock, canal, or cut, existing at the passing of this Act and constructed under the authority of Parliament and belonging to any body corporate established under such authority, and no bridge over the river Thames or the river Kennet belonging to or vested in any c...
Accretion
Accretion [fr. accresco, or adcresco, Lat.], the act of growing to a thing; usually applied to the gradual and imperceptible accumulation of land out of the sea or a river. Accretion of land is of two kinds: by alluvion, i.e., by the washing up of sand or soil, so as to form firm ground; or by dereliction, as when the sea shrinks below the usual water mark. If this accretion of land be by small and imperceptible degrees, it belongs to the owner of the land immediately adjacent to it, but if it be sudden and considerable it belongs to the Crown, Hale, De Jure Maris, 14; 2 Bl. Com. Ch. Xvi; A.G. of Southern Nigeria v. John Holt & Co., 1915 AC p. 613. Consult Coulson & Forbes on the Law of Waters. See ACCESSION....
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