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Cock oven plant

Cock oven plant, 'Coke oven plant' means the plant and equipment with which the manufacture of hard coke has been or is being, carried on, and includes-(i) all lands, building, works, machinery and equipment, vehicles, railways,

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...

Jews

Jeuerie (Statutes of the Realm, vol. 1., p. 221), of uncertain date, but probably passed in 1375 (though? Coke put the date at 1390), which prohibited usury by Jews and compelled them to wear a distinctive dress,

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Shelley's case, Rule in

is the antique feudal doctrine generally known as the rule in Shelley's Case, which is reported by Lord Coke in 1 Rep. 93 b (23 Eliz. in C.B.), and elaborately examined by Lord Macnaghten in Van Grutten

Managing contractor

Govern-ment has entered into an arrangement, contract or understanding, with the owner of a coking coal mine or coke oven plant under which the operations of the coking coal mine or coke oven plant are substantially controlled

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

Possibility on a possibility

Possibility on a possibility. Lord Coke lays it down as a rule that the event on which a remainder is to depend must be

Maxim

Maxim [fr. maximum Lat.], an axiom; a general principle; a leading truth so called, says Coke, quia maxima est ejus dignitas et certissima auctoritas, atque quod maxime omnibus probetur, 1 Inst. 11. Modern opinion,

Misprision

case of Roger, Earl of Rutland, in 43 Eliz., concerned in Essex's rebellion. Every great misdemeanour, according to Coke, which has no certain term appointed by the law, is sometimes called a misprision. Misprisions are divided in

Murder

Murder [fr. morthor, morthen, Sax.; murdrum, Low Lat.]. It is thus defined by Coke (3 Inst. 47): 'When a person of sound memory and discretion unlawfully killeth any reasonable creature in being,

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