Canals Act 1864 Section 17 - Law Dictionary Search Results
Otherwise directed
tax, Hardeodas Jagannath v. State of Assam, AIR 1970 SC 724: (1969) 2 SCR 261. [Assam Sales Tax Act, 1947 (17 of 1947), s. 30(1)] … authority can ask the assessee to deposit a portion of the amount and not the whole but the section gives no power to the appellate authority to permit the assessee to furnish security in lieu of cash
Public health
Health, either directly, as in the case of regulations for the prevention, etc., of disease, or relating to canals, or by the county councils or local authorities, or under bye-laws of such local authorities. The Ministry of … Public health. The first (English) Public Health Act was passed in 1848 (11 & 12 Vict. c. 63); this was an adoptive Act not applying to … Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), repeals certain sections of this Act, re-enacting them with amendments), which thus formed a sanitary
Development
is one of the modes of developing an area, Gujarat Industrial Development Corpn. v. C.I.T., (1997) 7 SCC 17 (20): AIR 1997 SC 3275. The word 'development' in the BDA Act is defined as development with its … or land, or planting of any tree on land and includes development. [Delhi Metro Railway (Operation and Maintenance) Act, 2002 (60 of 2002), s. 2(c)] Development with its grammatical variations means the carrying out of building, engineering,
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Unauthorised use
position, Jawala Ram v. State of Pepsu, AIR 1962 SC 1246 (1248): (1962) 2 SCR 503. [Northern India Canal and Drainage Act, 1873, s. 15] … Unauthorised use, the word 'unauthorised use' in the section does no import any idea of prohibition. The intention of the law clearly is to obtain payment for
Whenever the appropriate Government so directs
State of Bihar, AIR 1972 SC 1363 (1366): (1972) 1 SCC 714: (1972) 3 SCR 193. [Land Acquisition Act (10 of 1894), s. 17(1)] … Whenever the appropriate Government so directs, the expression 'whenever the appropriate Govt. so directs' in that section refers to the taking of possession and not to the declaration of urgency. Even in case of urgency,
Waste lands
this Court, while discerning the meaning of 'waste and arable land' in s. 17(4) of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, observed that the expression 'waste land' as contrasted to 'arable land', would mean 'land which is unfit … 3. A devastated region. In the sequence in which the expression 'waste lands' appears in the two relevant sections, it cannot but have its ordinary etymological meaning as given in the Shorter Oxford Dictionary i.e., land lying
Game
1860, s. 14, as amended by Revenue (No. 2) Act, 1161, s. 17; Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1893, s. 2; (English) Hares Preservation Act, … sorts of birds and beasts that are objects of the chase. The term is defined by the Game Act, 1831 (1 & 2 Wm. 4, c. 32), as including for the purposes of that Act 'hares, pheasants, … 258. S. 11(5) of the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923, gives the following definition:- For the purposes of this section the expression 'game' means deer, pheasants, partridges, grouse, and black game; And, subject to certain restrictions and conditions,
Obsolete
or battel' (see BATTEL, WAGER OF), the punishment of the stocks (see STOCKS), the provision of the Gaming Act of Henry VIII. (33 Hen. 8, c. 9) (Revised Statutes, 2nd Edn., vol. i. p. 378, published in … Christmas in their masters' houses and in their masters' presence; and that of 1285 in the Stat. Westm. Sec., 13 Edw. 1, c. 34, by which elopement with a nun from her convent, although the nun consent,
Chose
Baerselman, 1906 (2) KB 604. In Re Park Gate Waggon Company, (1881) 17 Ch D 234, it was held that a 'thing in action' under … that which is movable, and may be taken away, or carried from place to place. (3) Chose in action, otherwise called chose in suspense, a thing of which a man has not the possession or actual enjoyment, … v. Magee, 1902 KB p. 430, and 1903 (1) KB 644, for cases on the construction of the section. The above enactment does not, how ever impair or affect the validity of equitable assignments in any way,
Public trustee
the course of his administration of an estate. The Act does not extend to Ireland or Scotland [s. 17 (2)], and the Public Trustee cannot accept the trustee-ship of any settlement other than an English one [Re … Public trustee. The office of Public Trustee was established by the (English) Public Trustee Act, 1906, which came into force on 1st January, 1908. The Public Trustee is a corporation sole, and may
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