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The act or process of forming a channel or channels...
Distributor of TV Channels
Distributor of TV Channels, means any person including an individual, group of persons, public or body corporate, firm or any organisation or body re-transmitting TV Channels through electro-magnetic waves through cable or through space intented to be received by general public directly or indirectly, Telecommunication (Broadcasting and Cable Service) Interconnection Regulations (2004) Reg. 2(j)....
Channel
Channel, means any waterway, whether natural or artificial [Inland Waterways Authority of India, (82 of 1985), s. 2(c); means any waterway, whether natural or artificial: The National Highway (Allahabad-Haldia Stretch of the Ganga-Bhagerathi-Hoogly River) Act (49 of 1982), s. 4]...
Channel Islands
Channel Islands. Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark, part of the ancient Duchy of Normandy, annexed to the kingdom of England by William the Conqueror: by the (English) Interpretation Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 63), s. 18(1)(b), included in the expression British Isles. They ae governed by their own laws and not bound by any statute of the British Parliament, unless expressly named therein. An appeal lies from their Courts to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council....
Watercourse
Watercourse, means a stream of water, a river or brook; also an artificial channel for the conveyance of water. The bed or channel of a river or stream, Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 3rd Edn., 1944, p. 1510, Wilson v. First County Trust Ltd., (2001) LR 407 (QB).Means any channel existing or to be constructedby the government or by the land owners or byany agency to receive and distribute water froman outlet. [Rajasthan Farmers' Participation in Management of Irrigation System Act, 2000, s. 2(w)]Means any channel which is supplied with water from a channel but which is not maintained at the cost of the government, and all subsidiary works belonging to such channel, Beni v. State, AIR 1966 All 11....
Billabong
In Australia a blind channel leading out from a river sometimes called an anabranch This is the sense of the word as used in the Public Works Department but the term has also been locally applied to mere back waters forming stagnant pools and to certain water channels arising from a source...
Flume
A stream especially a passage channel or conduit for the water that drives a mill wheel or an artifical channel of water for hydraulic or placer mining also a chute for conveying logs or lumber down a declivity...
British Islands
British Islands. In (English) Acts of Parliament the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, see (English) Interpretation Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 68)British islands, are the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 6, 4th Edn., Para 805, p. 253....
Commercial assets
Commercial assets, of a building society comprise the society's class 1, class 2 and 3 assets. The aggregate of a society's class 1, class 2 and class 3 assets constitutes the total commercial assets of the society. Class 1 assets comprise class 1 advances secured on land in the United Kingdom or on land in the Isle of Man, the Channel Island or Gibraltar. Class 2 assets comprise class 2 advances secured on land in the United Kingdom or on land in the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands or Gibraltar. Class 3 assets comprise loons for mobile homes, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. (2), para 762, p. 464....
Four seas
Four seas. These are (1) The Atlantic, which comprises the Irish Sea and St. George's Channel; (2) The North Sea; (3) The German Ocean; and (4) The English Channel. See Woolrych on Waters. Before the reign of James the First, the four seas were understood with more restriction, the Scotch seas being excluded. The expression 'within the four seas,' 'intra quatuor maria,' means 'within the kingdome of England, and the dominions of the same kingdome.'-Co. Litt. 107 a....
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