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Home Dictionary Name: china wareChina ware
dishes made of china porcelain so called in the 17th century because brought from the far East and differing from the pottery made in Europe at that time also loosely crockery in general...
Glass ware
Glass ware, the dictionary meaning of the expres-sion 'glass ware' is 'articles made of glass' (see WEBSTER'S NEW WORLD DICTIONARY).However, in commercial sense glass ware would never comprise articles like clinical syringes, thermometers, lectometers, and the like which have specialised significance and utility. In popular or commercial parlance a general merchant dealing in 'glass ware' does not ordinarily deal in articles like clinical syringes, thermometers, medical stores or with the manufacturers thereof like the assessee. It is equally unlikely that consumer would ask for such articles from a glass ware shop. In popular sense when one talks of glass ware such specialised articles like clinical syringes, thermometer, lectometers and the like do not come up to ones mind, Indo International Industries v. Commissioner of Sales Tax, AIR 1981 SC 1079 (1081): (1981) 2 SCC 528: (1981) 3 SCR 294. [U.P. Sales Tax, (15 of 1948)]...
mainland China
The Peoples Republic of China also called Communist China in distinction from Nationalist China the government located on the island of Taiwan Both governments claim to represent the entire people of China but the Peoples republic is recognized as China by the United Nationss and most of its member states...
Waring, Ex parte, Rule of
Waring, Ex parte, Rule of. The principle established in Ex parte Waring, (1815) 19 Ves. 345, that securities held by the acceptor of a bill against his acceptances are available to the bill-holders if both acceptor and drawer are insolvent, even though the bill-holders had no knowledge that the securities had been appropriated for the purpose....
Pseudo china
The false china root a plant of the genus Smilax Smilax Pseudo china found in America...
Biddery ware
A kind of metallic ware made in India The material is a composition of zinc tin and lead in which ornaments of gold and silver are inlaid or damascened...
VerbarRaku ware
A kind of earthenware made in Japan resembling Satsuma ware but having a paler color...
Merse-ware
Merse-ware, the ancient name for the inhabitants of Romney Marsh, Kent....
Pessurable, Pestarble, or Pestarable Wares
Pessurable, Pestarble, or Pestarable Wares, mer-chandise which takes up a good deal of room in a ship....
Minerals
Minerals, means all substances which can be obtained from the earth by mining, digging, drilling, dredging, hydraulicking, quarrying or by any other operation and includes mineral oils. [Mines Act, 1952, s. 2(jj)]This term may include all substances of commercial value which can be got from beneath the earth, either by mining or quarrying, except common clay [Glasgow v. Farie, (1888) 13 App Cas 657], or sandstone (N.B. Ry. v. Budhill Coal and Sandstone Co., 1910 AC 116); but china clay is a mineral (G.W. Ry. v. Carpalla China Clay Co., 1910 AC 83). See also Waring v. Foden, (1932) 1 Ch 276.By the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 205 (1) (ix.), mines and minerals include any strata or seam of minerals or substances in or under any land and the powers of working and getting the same, but not an undivided share thereof.Minerals would include minor minerals unless minor minerals are expressly excluded or the context otherwise requires, D.K. Trivedi & Sons v. State of Gujarat, AIR 19...
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