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Home Dictionary Name: composition Page: 2Rhetoric
The art of composition especially elegant composition in prose...
homeostasis
The ability and tendency of certain systems to maintain a relatively constant internal state in spite of changes in external conditions this ability is achieved by the presence of feedback mechanisms which can adjust the state of the system to compensate for changes in the state caused by the external environment It is exemplified in homeothermal biological systems such as animals which maintain relatively constant blood temperature and composition in spite of variations in external temperature or the composition of the food ingested...
isomeric
Having the same chemical composition and molecular weight having the same number of atoms of each kind in the molecule said of chemical compounds with known chemical composition This property used to be called metameric to distinguish it from other forms of isomerism...
Chemistry
That branch of science which treats of the composition of substances and of the changes which they undergo in consequence of alterations in the constitution of the molecules which depend upon variations of the number kind or mode of arrangement of the constituent atoms These atoms are not assumed to be indivisible but merely the finest grade of subdivision hitherto attained Chemistry deals with the changes in the composition and constitution of molecules See Atom Molecule...
Arrangements between debtors and creditors
Arrangements between debtors and creditors. The 125th and 126th sections of the (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1869, which repealed an Act of 1861, allowed liquidation by arrangement and composition with creditors by resolutions passed at similar representative meetings to take the place of proceedings in bankruptcy. The (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1883, having repealed the Act of 1869 without re-enacting these clauses, arrangements with creditors outside the law of bankruptcy became common, and in order to legalize and regulate these arrangements, the (English) Deeds of Arrangement Act, 1887, was passed and amended in 1890 by 53 & 54 Vict. c. 24. The law has now been consolidated by the (English) Deeds of Arrangement Act, 1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 47), which repeals the Act of 1887, and also parts of the Bankruptcy and (English) Deeds of Arrangement Act, 1913, and contains practically the whole statute law on the subject. The Act is divided into five parts: (1) defining the deeds of arrangement...
Food
Food, Pan masala, gutka are held to be food within the meaning of s. 2(v) of Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954, Godawal Pan Masala Products Ltd. v. Union of India, (2004) 7 SCC 68 (101): AIR 2004 SC 4057.Food. In the Sale of Food and Drugs Act (see ADULTERATION) the word includes 'every article used for food or drink by man, other than drugs or water and any article which ordinarily enters into or is used in the composition or preparation of human food,' and also 'flavouring matters and condiments.'-(English) Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1899 (62 & 63 Vict. c. 51), s. 26; (English) Public Health Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 71), s. 72; and Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928 (18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 31), s. 34. For power to make regulations as to the importation of good, see AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE; AGRICULTURAL MARKETING; (English) Public Health (Regulations as to Food) Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 32). See generally, ADULTERATION, also (English) Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1927.Means ...
Kennelworth edict
Kennelworth edict (dictum sive edictum de Kennelworth). An edict or award between Henry III and those who had been in arms against him; so called because made at Kenilworth Castle in Warwickshire, anno 51 Hen. 3, A.D. 1266. It contained a composition of those who had forfeited their estates in that rebellion, which composition was five years' rent of the estate forfeited, Hale's Hist., p. 10, n. (d)....
Food and sale
Food and sale, 'Food' is defined by S. 2(v) of the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 as meaning 'any article used as food or drink for human consumption other than drugs and water and includes:(a) any article which ordinarily enters into, or is used in the composition or preparation of human food, and(b) any flavouring matter or condiments. 'Sale' is defined by S. 2(xiii) as follows: 'Sale' with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means the sale of any article of food, whether for cash or on credit or by way of exchange and whether by wholesale or retail, for human consumption or use, or for analysis, and includes an agreement for sale, an offer for sale, the exposing for sale or having in possession for sale of any such article, and includes also an attempt to sell any such article; According to the definition of 'food' any used as food or drink for human consumption and any article which ordinarily enters into or is used in the composition or preparation of hu...
Predominate
Predominate, in the context of a composite yarn made of different types of yarn, has a very simple meaning, namely, that the percentage of the particular yarn with which one is concerned should predominate over the weight of the other constituents of the composite yarn, Collector of Central Excise v. Rane Braker Lininge Ltd., (1998) 8 SCC 420....
Controlled business
Controlled business, the definition of 'controlled business' contemplates two kinds of insurers--(i) insurers who carry on life business only, and (ii) insurers who carry on composite business, that is to say certain other business which does not ex facie come within controlled business, Under sub-clause (a) of s. 2(3)(i) controlled business covers the entire life business of an insurer if he carries on no other class of insurance business and under sub-clause (b) all the business appertaining to his life insurance business is included if he is a composite insurer. The controlled business in either case is intended to embrace all the business concerning life insurance. In the first case it means the whole of the business of the insurer and in the second case the part which comes within the life businessbut not other, National Insurance Co. Ltd. v. Life Insurance Corporation of India, AIR 1963 SC 1911 (1913): (1964) 2 SCR 182. [Life Insurance Corpora-tion Act, (31 of 1950), s. 2(3)(i) E...
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