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Home Dictionary Name: consumers goods Page: 2 Page 2 of about 41 results (0.004 seconds)Capital goods
Capital goods, include all types of properties including consumable raw material, components etc. Capital goods become capital goods when used in the manufacture of products. Every Capital asset is not capital good, C.C.E. v. Ginni Filaments Ltd., (2005) 3 SCC 378 (388).Means plant, mechiners and equipment used in trade or manufacturing of goods, [Manipur University Act, 2005, s. 2(e)]Is very wide. Capital goods can be machines, machinery, plant, equipment, apparatus, tools or appliances, Commissioner of Central Excise, Coimbatore v. Jawahar Mills Ltd., (2001) 6 SCC 274.Means--(a) machines, machinery, plant, equipment, apparatus, tools or appliances used for producing or processing of any goods or for bringing about any changes in any substance for the manufacture of final products;(b) components, spare parts and accessories of the aforesaid machines, machinery, plaint, equipment, apparatus, tools or appliances used for aforesaid purpose; and(c) moulds and dies, generating sets and wei...
debt
debt [Old French dette, ultimately from Latin debita, plural of debitum debt, from neuter of debitus, past participle of debere to owe] 1 : something owed: as a : a specific sum of money or a performance due another esp. by agreement (as a loan agreement) [to pay the s…of the United States "U.S. Constitution art. I"] [a for alimony] b : an obligation to pay or perform on another's claim [discharged the ] compare asset, equity NOTE: It is often up to the courts to decide what is or is not a debt under various laws. Courts disagree whether criminal restitution is a debt under the Bankruptcy Code. The historical practice of imprisoning debtors for nonpayment is no longer used. antecedent debt : debt that is incurred prior to a property transfer paying or securing the debt compare preference bad debt : a debt that cannot be collected NOTE: An income tax deduction is allowed for bad debts. consumer debt : debt that is incurred by an individual primarily for the purchase of ...
Perishable goods
Perishable goods, goods which decay and lose their value if not consumed soon-as fish, fruit, and the like. By s. 48 (3) of the Sale of Goods Act, 1893, if on the sale of goods 'of a perishable nature' the buyer does not within a reasonable time pay or tender the price, the unpaid seller may resell and recover damages from the buyer; and by Ord. L., Rule 2, such goods, when the subject of an action, may, by order of the court or a judge be sold....
CPI
the consumer price index an index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer The increase of this value each year is one measure of monetary inflation...
Raw materials
Raw materials, means goods used as the ingredient in the manufacture of other goods and includes processing materials, consumable stores and material used in the packing of the goods so manufactured but does not include fuels for the purpose of generation of electricity. [Gujarat Value Added Tax Act, 2003, s. 2(19)]Raw materials, ought to be construed in the sense of those basic materials which are required for the production of finished articles which the manu-facturer manufactures and not in the sense of unmanufactured materials or materials in their raw state, Municipal Committee, Burhanpur v. Allauddin Aolia Saheb, (1957) MP LJ 279....
equipment
equipment : the implements used in an operation or activity ;specif in the Uniform Commercial Code : goods that are bought for or used in a business enterprise or by a debtor which is a nonprofit organization or a government agency and that are not inventory, farm products, or consumer goods ...
durables
durables : consumer goods (as vehicles or appliances) that are typically used repeatedly over a period of years called also durable goods ...
Restrictive trade practice
Restrictive trade practice, means a trade practice which tends to bring about manipulation of price or its conditions of delivery or to affect flow of supplies in the market relating to goods or services in such a manner as to impose on the consumers unjustified costs or restrictions and shall include--(a) delay beyond the period agreed to by a trader in supply of such goods or in providing the services which has led or is likely to lead to rise in the price.(b) Any trade practice which requires a consumer to buy, hire or avail of any goods or, as the case maybe, services as condition precedent to buying, hiring or availing of other goods or services. [The Consumer Protection Act, 1986 (68 of 1986), s. 2 (1) (nnn)]The definition of restrictive trade practice is an exhaustive and not an inclusive one. The decision whether trade practice is restrictive or not has to be arrived at by applying the rule of reason and not on the doctrine that any restriction as to area or price will per se b...
Layaway
Layaway, means an agreement between a retail seller and a consumer to hold goods for future sale. The seller sets the goods aside and agrees to sell them to the consumer at an agreed price in the future. The consumer deposits with the seller some portion of the price of the goods, and may agree to other conditions with the seller, such as progress payments. The consumer receives the goods once the full purchase price has been paid, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 895...
Unfair trade practice
Unfair trade practice, means a trade practice which, for the purpose of promoting the sale, use or supply any goods or for the provision of any service, adopts any unfair method or unfair or deceptive practice. [Consumer Protection Act, 1986 (68 of 1986), s. 2(r)]Section 36A of the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practice Act, 1969 defines 'Unfair Trade Practice': In this part, unless the context otherwise requires, 'unfair trade practice' means a trade practice which, for the purpose of promoting the sale, use or supply of any goods or for the provision of any services, adopts one or more of the following practices and thereby causes loss or injury to the consumers of such goods or services, whether by eliminating or restricting competition or otherwise, namely: (1) The practice of making any statement, whether orally or in writing or by visible representation which falsely represents that the goods are of a particular standard, quality, grade, composition, style or model; represents...
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