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Coal mine

Coal mine, The expression 'no person, other than the Central Government or a government company or a corporation owned, managed or control in India, in any form' is semantically sweeping and is wide in meaning so as to spare no class of coal, including even coking coal, because coking coal is a species of coal, coal itself being the genus. A definition of 'coal mine' in the Coal Mines (Nationalisation) Act, 1973. S. 2(b) of the Act defines coal mine to mean 'a mine in which there exists one or more seams of coal'. It is apparent that even a coking coal mine is a coal mine because the definition is broad, Mahindra Nath Shukla v. State of Bihar, (1980) 3 SCR 595: (1980) 3 SCC 353: AIR 1980 SC 1308 (1311). [Coal Mines (Nationalisa-tion Act (26 of 1973) s. 2 (b)]The (English) Coal Mines Act 1911, (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 50), repealing and reenacting, with alterations, a great part of the existing law, and itself amended by the (English) Coal Mines Act, 1914 (4 & 5Geo. 5, c. 22), contains a set o...


Coke and coal

Coke and coal, two products are distinct and different. Whereas 'coal' is a stone-like product excavated from the earth, 'coke' is the processed product of coal obtained by indirect heating in beehive ovens and by-product ovens which are commonly known as 'coke oven plants', Bharat Coking Coal Ltd. v. Steel Abrasers and Allied Products Ltd., 1994 Supp (3) SCC 361 (362) [Colliery Control Order, 1945, cl. 2(1)(2)]...


Coal-whippers

Coal-whippers, labourers discharging the cargoes of vessels laden with coals in the port of London. See 6 & 7 Vict. c. ci., which established a coal-whipper's register....


Coking coal mine

Coking coal mine, Includes a 'coke oven plant', Sanjeev Coke Manufacturing Company v. Bharat Coking Coal Limited, (1983) 1 SCC 147: (1983) 1 SCR 1000: AIR 1983 SC 239 (244). [Coking Coal Mines (Nationalisation) Act (36 of 1972), s. 3(j)]...


Bovey coal

A kind of mineral coal or brown lignite burning with a weak flame and generally a disagreeable odor found at Bovey Tracey Devonshire England It is of geological age of the ooumllite and not of the true coal era...


Coal works

A place where coal is dug including the machinery for raising the coal...


Sea coal

Coal brought by sea a name by which mineral coal was formerly designated in the south of England in distinction from charcoal which was brought by land...


Coal

Coal may be sold by weight only by the (English) Weights and Measures Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 21), s. 20. The seller delivers a weight ticket for the whole quantity sold, Kyle v. Dunsdon, (1908) 2 KB 293. The weighing is to take place at the premises of the seller, not on delivery at the premises of the purchaser, Knowles v. Sinclair, 1898 (1) QB 170. See WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. As to the validity of bye-laws requiring coal carts to carry weighing machines, see Kent County Council v. Humphrey, 1895 (1) QB 903; Alty v. Farrell, 1896 (1) QB 636....


Coal measures

Coal measures, has been held to include those identifiable seams of coal which are or might be worth mining, Earl of Consdale v. A-G, (1982) 3 All ER 579....


root

root in the civil law of Louisiana : descendant by roots : per stirpes ...


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