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Home Dictionary Name: bodyBody corporate established by any law
Body corporate established by any law, the words 'body corporate established by any law' should be deemed to include even a body corporate established under any law i.e., even a company. But it appears that the words 'body corporate established by any law' have been deliberately used. While all companies and corporations, as defined in the Act are liable to pay bonus, the intention seems to be that only subsidies paid by body corporate established by any law, should be deductible items and not subsidies paid by bodies corporate established under any law. Sch. II, item 6(g), Payment of Bonus Act, 1965. Shri Ambica Mills Ltd. No. 1 v. Textile Labour Association, (1973) 3 SCR 123: AIR 1973 SC 1081: (1973) 3 SCC 787 (796)....
Body corporate
Body corporate, does not include a corporate sole, nor a Scottish firm, but includes a company incorporated elsewhere than in Great Britain, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 9(2), 4th Edn., Para 1189, p. 673.Body corporate, does not include 'corporation sole but includes a company incorporated elsewhere than in Great Britain, it does not include a Scottish firm, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 21, 4th Edn., Para 772, p. 552.The expression 'body corporate' is used in legal parlance to mean a public or private corporation, Ashoka Marketing Ltd v. Punjab National Bank, (1990) 4 SCC 406: AIR 1991 SC 855....
Corporation or body politic
Corporation or body politic, an artificial person es-tablished for preserving in perpetual succession certain rights, which being conferred on natural persons only would fail in process of time. It is either aggegate, consisting of many members, or sole, consisting of one person only, as a parson. It is also either spiritual, created to perpetuate the rights of the Church, or lay'sub-divided into civil, created for many temporal purposes, and eleemosynary, to perpetuate founders' charities. It is by virtue of the sovereign's prerogative exercised by a charter, or of an Act of Parliament, or of prescription, that the artificial personage called a corporation, whether sole or aggregate, civil or ecclesiastical, is created. The royal charter gives it a legal immortality, and a name by which it acts and becomes known. It has power to make bye-laws for its own government, and transacts its business under the authority of a common seal-its hand and mouthpiece; it has neither soul nor tangibl...
Bodied
Having a body usually in composition as able bodied...
male body
The body of an adult human male a term used especially in art as Da Vinci was unexcelled in painting the male body...
Accusatory body
Accusatory body, means a body, such as a grand jury, charged with the duty to hear evidence and determine whether a person should be charged with a crime, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 22....
Body
Body, the main part of any instrument; in deed sit is spoken of as distinguished from the recitals and other introductory parts and signatures; in affidavits, from the title, and jurat, q.v.; also the term is used in writs to describe the person who is to be taken (as habeas corpus). And see CORPSE.What constitutes a body has not been judicially defined. There must have been independent life, a non-viable fetus expelled at a stage of pregnancy at which separate existence is impossible does not fall within the coroner's jurisdiction, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 9, 4th Edn., Para 1055, p. 659....
Executive Body
Executive Body, means a group of duly elected persons who manage and control the affairs of a sports Association, by whatever name such body may be called, the Rajasthan Sports (Registration, Recognition and Regulation of Association) Act, 2005, s. 2(i)....
General body
General body, in relation to a multi-State co-operative society, means all the members of that society and in relation to a national co-operative society or a federal co-operative means all the delegates of member co-operative societies or delegates of Multi-State Co-operative Societies and includes a body constituted under the first proviso to sub-s. (1) of s. 38. [Multi-State Co-operative Societies Act, 2002 (39 of 2002), s. 3 (l)]...
Local bodies
Local bodies, 'local bodies' means Panchayats and Municipalities, by whatever name called, with the meaning of clause (1) of Article 243B and clause (1) of Article 243Q of the Constitution and in the absence of any Panchayats or Municipalities, institutions of self-government constituted under any other provision of the Constitution or any Central Act or State Act. [Biological Diversity Act, 2002 (18 of 2003), s. 2(h)]...
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