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Sisters

Sisters. Lord Coke says, omnes sorores sunt quasi unus h'res-all sisters are, as it were, one heir. See COPARCENERS.

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,

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

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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...

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,

Material resources of the community

resources owned by the public; it means and includes all resources, natural and man-made, public and private-owned, Sanjeev Coke Manufacturing Company v. M/s. Bharat Coking Coal Limited, AIR 1983 SC 239 (251): (1983) 1 SCC 147: (1983)

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

Littleton

composed a book of tenures for the use of his son, to whom it is addressed. Sir Edward Coke's Commentary upon Littleton, 'Not the name of the author only, but of the law itself,' is one of

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,

Mine

Mine [fr. mwyn or mwy, Wel., fr. maen, a stone], an excavation or cavern in the earth; an excavation made for the purpose of getting coal or other minerals. The inspection and regulation of mines other...

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