Carte Blanche - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: carte blancheCarte blanche
Carte blanche, a white card, or free permission, signed at the bottom with a person's name, and sometimes sealed, giving another person power to subscribe what conditions he pleases. Applied generally in the sense of unlimited authority being granted....
Carte blanche
A blank paper with a persons signature etc at the bottom given to another person with permission to superscribe what conditions he pleases Hence Unconditional terms unlimited authority...
Blanch
To grow or become white as his cheek blanched with fear the rose blanches in the sun...
Blanch-firmes
Blanch-firmes. In ancient times the Crown rents were many times reserved in libiris albis or blanch-firmes, in which case the buyer was holden dealbare firman, i.e., his base money or coin, below standard, was melted down in the Exchequer, and reduced to the fineness of standard silver, or instead thereof, he paid twelve pence in the pound by way of addition, Jac. Law Dict....
Blanch holding
Blanch holding, an ancient tenure of the law of Scotland, the duty payable being trifling, as a penny or peppercorn, 20 Geo. 2, c. 50; 25 Geo. 2, c. 20....
Carte-bote
Carte-bote. See BOTE....
cartload
as much as will fill or load a cart the quantity that a cart holds In excavating and carting sand gravel earth etc one third of a cubic yard of the material before it is loosened is estimated to be a cart load...
Etiolation
The operation of blanching plants by excluding the light of the sun the condition of a blanched plant...
Vegetables
Vegetables, as understood in common parlance are not products of manufacture unless, agriculture is an industry for certain purposes and vegetables are products of the Industry, Saraswati Sugar Mills v. Haryana State Board, AIR 1992 SC 228.The word 'vegetables' in taxing statutes is to be understood as in common parlance, Vegetables in item 6 does not include betel leaves, Ramavatar Budhaiprasad v. Asst. Sales Tax Officer, AIR 1961 SC 1325 (1327): (1962) 1 SCR 279. [C.F. and Bezar Sales Tax Act, (21 of 1947), Sch. II, Item 6]The word 'vegetables' should be understood as denoting the class of vegetables which are grown in kitchen garden or in a farm and are used for the tables. There can be no dispute that both chillies and lemons are grown in kitchen gardens or at any rate in farms and they are used for the tables, Mangulu Sahu Ramahari Sahu v. Sales Tax Officer, AIR 1974 SC 390: (1972) 4 SCC 423. [Orissa Sales Tax Act, 1947, s. 6]The word 'vegetables' is not defined in the Act and it ...
Cartwright
An artificer who makes carts a cart maker...
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