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Cloth manufactured by mills

Cloth manufactured by mills, cloth has been divided broadly into two categories, mill made and loom made. The loom made cloth would include all cloth manufactured on looms. The energy by which the looms are worked would not make any difference. In other words whether the energy is supplied manually or by power cannot convert the essential character of the cloth, namely, its manufacture on looms. As regard mill made cloth the actual process of weaving is more or less automatic, pre-conceived and definite and it involves the functioning of machinery, Sales Tax Commissioner v. Ladha Singh Mal Singh, (1971) Supp SCR 941: AIR 1971 SC 2221: (1971) 2 SCC 407. [U.P. Sales Tax Act (15 of 1948), s. 3A]...


Cloth

Cloth. By 12 Edw. 3, c. 3, no cloth made beyond sea might be brought into the kingdom on paint of forfeiture of the goods and punishment of the importer.Going by the meaning given in dictionaries as well as by its generally accepted popular connotation 'cloth' is woven, knitted or felted material which is pliable and is capable of being wrapped, folded or wound around. It need not necessarily be material suitable for making garments because there can be 'cloth' suitable only for industrial purpose; but nevertheless it must possess the basic feature of pliability. Hard and thick material which cannot be wrapped or wound around cannot be regarded as 'cloth', Filterco v. Commissioner of Sales Tax, (1986) 1 SCR 239: AIR 1986 SC 626 (627): (1986) 2 SCC 103. [MP General Sales Tax Act (2 of 1959) s. 42B and Sch. I, Entry 6]...


Cotton cloth factories

Cotton cloth factories. There are specially regulated by the (English) Factory and Workshop (Cotton Cloth Factories) Act, 1929 (c. 15), and the regulations made under that Act; the (English) Cotton Cloth Factories Regulations, 1929 (S.R. & O. 1929, No. 300). This Act repeals the (English) Factory and Workshop Act, 1901 (1 Edw. 7, c. 22), ss. 90-96, and Schedl. IV., so far as it relates to cotoon cloth factories which took the place of therepealed Cotton Cloth Factories Act, 1889, in respect to restricting the amount of moisture in the atmosphere, the admission of fresh air, and the prevention of the inhalation of dust....


Ready made clothing

Ready made clothing, the expression ready made clothing mean clothing which is ready for immediate use, AIR 1953 All 245. [Cotton Cloth and Yarn Control Order, (1945), Cl. 3(a)]...


Green cloth

Green cloth. The counting-house of the king's household was commonly called the Green Cloth in respect of the green cloth upon the table whereat the lord steward, the treasurer of the king's house, and other inferior officers sat:-(1) For daily taking the accounts for all expenses of the house-hold. (2) For making provisions for the household, according to the laws and statutes of the realm. (3) For making of payments for the same. (4) For the good government of the king's servants. (5) For payment of the wages of the king's servants. The officers of the counting-house never held plea of anything, 4 Inst. 131....


drop cloth

a sheet of material used to cover objects or surfaces while painting a ceiling or wall of a house so as to protect objects from being marred by drops of paint splashed inadvertantly in the painting process Originally such drop cloths were made of cloth but more recently paper or plastic have also commonly been used...


Bearing cloth

A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized...


carborundum cloth

Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum a foprm of sandpaper...


Cloth

A fabric made of fibrous material or sometimes of wire as in wire cloth commonly a woven fabric of cotton woolen or linen adapted to be made into garments specifically woolen fabrics as distinguished from all others...


cloth bound

having rigid front and back covers covered with cloth of books Contrasted to softcover...


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