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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...

Coal mine

for establishing a minimum wage in the case of workmen employed under ground in coal mines; see Lofthouse Colliery v. Ogden, (1913) 3 KB 120; Davies v. Glamorgan Coal Co., (1914) 1 KB 674; Richards v. Wrexham

Actio personalis moritur cum persona.

after death); and the maxim does not apply in cases under the Workmen's Compen-sation Act, 1906 (English), United Collieries, Ltd. v. Simpson, 1909, AC 383. See DEPENDANT. A further restriction upon the doctrine has been effected by

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Check-weigher

in (English) Various Industries Act, 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 51). See Date v. Gas Coal Collieries, 1914 (3) KB 1175.

Fixed assets

purpose of converting into cash, and they include real estate, building, machinery, etc. Union of India v. United Collieries Ltd., AIR 1985 SC 192 (195): (1985) 1 SCC 305: (1985) 2 SCR 209. [Coal mines (Nationaliza-tion) Act,

Fixtures

injury to the estate; furnaces, coppers, brewing vessels, fixed vats, salt pans, and the like; machinery in breweries, collieries, and mills, such as steam-engines, cider mills, etc.; buildings for trade, as a varnish-house, built on plates laid

Necessaries

as has been attached to it in other connections, e.g., in cases of infants' contracts, Kennedy v. Horden Collieries Ltd., (1925) 2 KB 438. It does not, however, include savings, Welsh Navigation Steam Coal Co. Ltd. v.

Preferential payments

KB 746; Re Beeton, (1913) 2 Ch 279; Re Havana Co., (1916) 1 Ch 8, and Lewis Merthyr Collieries, Ltd., Lloyds Bank v. Company, (1929) 1 Ch 498; and STANNARIES. As to improper preferential payments, see FRADULU-ENT

Truck Acts (1831 to 1896)

damages awarded to an employer in an action is a violation of these Acts, Williams v. North's Navigation Collieries, 1906 AC 136.

Union Assessment Committee

obtain relief from such committee. As to time of giving notice of appeal, see Denaby Overseers v. Denaby Collieries, 1909 AC 247. The Act of 1864 (27 & 28 Vict. c. 38), has been repealed by the

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