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Commercial purpose, 'Commercial' denotes 'pertaining to commerce'; it means 'connected with, or engaged in commerce; mercantile; having profit as the main aim' whereas the word 'commerce' means 'financial transactions especially buying and selling of merchandise, on a large scale', Laxmi Engineering Works v. P.S.G. Industrial Institute, (1995) 3 SCC 583: AIR 1995 SC 1428 (1435). [Consumer Protection Act (68 of 1986), s. 2(d)]Means a hydrocarbon mixture consisting predominantly of propane, propylene or any mixture of them, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 20, para 669, p. 535.Observation of the National Commission that commercial purpose would mean 'profit-making activity on a large scale', Kalpavruksha Charitable Trust v. Toshniwal Brothers (Bombay) Pvt. Ltd., (2000) 1 SCC 512....
Held for Commercial Purpose
Held for Commercial Purpose, an individual acquiring (or having acquired for his own use subsequently decides to hold) products for a purpose other than his own use, such products are to be regarded as held for commercial purposes, Regina (Hoverspeed Ltd.) v. Customs and Excise Commissioners, (2003) 2 WLR 950 (EWCA)...
Industrial purpose
Industrial purpose, there is no doubt that what was intended by this clause was that the site sold to the appellant shall not be used by him, for a commercial purpose as contradistinguished from an industrial purpose, that is to say, that he shall use it for the purpose of his own industry or business but not for any other purpose, Chandigarh Paper Board Mills Private Limited v. Chief Commissioner, (1982) 3 SCC 507. [Capital of Punjab (Development and Regulation) Act, 1952 (27 of 1952)]...
Commercial exploitation
Commercial exploitation, in relation to Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design, means to sell, lease, offer or exhibit for sale or otherwise distribute such semiconductor integrated circuit for any commercial purpose. [Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Act, 2000 (37 of 2000), s. 2 (e)]...
Consumer
Consumer, 'consumer' would include 'any person who consumes electrical energy supplied by a person who generates electrical energy for his own consumption', Jiyajee Rao Cotton Mills Ltd. v. State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1963 SC 414: (1962) Supp 1 SCR 282.The definition of the word 'consumer' shows that it would include a person who consumes energy generated by himself. The proposition that in the matter of the levy of electricity tax the Court should differentiate between cases wherein the energy consumed has been generated by someone other than the consumer and those wherein such energy has been generated by the consumer himself cannot, therefore, be countenanced, State of Mysore v. West Coast Papers Mills Ltd., (1975) 3 SCC 448: AIR 1975 SC 5: (1975) 2 SCR 127.The word 'consumer' is a comprehensive expression. It extends from a person who buys any commodity to consume either as eatable or otherwise from a shop, business house, corporation, store, fair price shop to use of private or p...
Commercial and domestic
Commercial and domestic, in Stroud's Judicial Dictionary (Fifth Edition) the term 'commercial' is defined as 'traffic, trade or merchandise in buying and selling of goods'. In the said dictionary the phrase 'domestic purpose' is stated to mean use for personal residential purposes. In essence the question is, what is the character of the purpose of user of the premises by the owner or landlord and not the character of the place of user. The New Delhi Municipal Council is entitled to charge for use of electricity in a guest house at the rate applicable to 'commercial' use, New Delhi Municipal Council v. Sohan Lal Sachdev, (2000) 2 SCC 494: AIR 2000 SC 1859 (1861). [Electricity Act, 1910, s. 23]...
Residential house
Residential house, must be treated as including a flat constructed above the commercial plot on the ground floor. This will be so even if originally the plot was allotted for commercial purposes, if incidentally construction of residential plot above the ground floor, commercial plot is permitted as per the plans, Chandigarh Housing Board v. Narinder Kaur Makol, AIR 2000 SC 2616Residential house, includes flats constructed over commercial premises on ground floor, Chandigarh Housing Board v. Narinder Kaur Makal, (2000) 6 SCC 415: AIR 2000 SC 2616....
Building
Building, defined by Lord Esher in Moir v. Williams, (1892) 1 QB 270, as an inclosure of brick or stone covered by a roof, and said by Park, J., in R. v. Gregory, (1833) 5 B. & Ad. At p. 561, not to include a wall; but the definition depends on circumstances, and may include a reservoir, Moran v. Marsland, (1909) 1 KB 744. The London Building Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. clviii.), has no definition. The term 'new building' was defined in s. 23 of the (English) Public Health Acts Amendment Act,1907 (c. 53) (now repealed); and see also Southend-on-Sea Corporation v. Archer, (1901) 70 LJ KB 328; South Shields Corporation v. Wilson, (1901) 84 LT 267. An old railway carriage will be a 'new building' if the interior arrangements are altered, Hanrahan v. Leigh Urban Council, (1909) 2 KB 257. An advertisement hoarding is a building within a restrictive covenant, Nussey v. Provincial Bill Posting Co., (1909) 1 Ch 734; Stevens v. Willing & Co. Ltd., 1929 WN 53. See also Paddington Corporation v...
Commercial site
Commercial site, Commercial site' means (leaving out the inapplicable portion) any land which is used 'principally for the purposes of any trade, commerce, industry, manufacture or business', Chettiam Veettil Ammad v. Taluk Land Board, AIR 1979 SC 1573 (1584): (1980) 1 SCC 499: (1979) 3 SCR 839. [Kerala Land Reforms Act (1 of 1964), s. 2(5)]...
Commercial establishment
Commercial establishment, in the definition of a Commercial Establishment in s. 2 cl. 3 of the U.P. Shops and Commercial Eastblishment Act, 1947, the clerical and other establishments of a factory to whom the provisions of the Factories Act, 1934, do not apply, are included in the connotation of that expression. It is true that the reference in the definition by which clerical and other establish-ments of factories are included is to the Factories Act of 1934, but by virtue of s. 8 of the General Clauses (1987 10 of 1897), it must be construed as a reference to the provisions of the Factories Act LXIII of 1948 which repealed the Factories Act of 1934 and re-enacted it. It is difficult to say that field workers who are employed in guiding, supervising and controlling the growth and supply of sugarcane to be used in the factory are employed either in the precincts of the factory or in the premises of the factory; and if these workers are not employed in a factory, the provisions of the F...
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