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Home Dictionary Name: contriveContrivable
Capable of being contrived planned invented or devised...
Contrivance
The act or faculty of contriving inventing devising or planning...
Contrivement
Contrivance invention arrangement design plan...
Contriver
One who contrives devises plans or schemas...
Enginer
A contriver an inventor a contriver of engines...
Machinate
To plan to contrive esp to form a scheme with the purpose of doing harm to contrive artfully to plot...
Captive animal
Captive animal, means any animal (not being a domestic animal) which is in captivity or confinement, whether permanent or temporary, or which is subjected to any appliance or contrivance for the purpose of hindering or preventing its escape from captivity or confinement or which is pinioned or which is or appears to be maimed. [Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960 (59 of 1960), s. 2 (c); See also Wild Life (Protection) Act (53 of 1972) s. 2(5)]Means any non-domestic animal of whatsoever kind or species, whether a quadruped or not, including any bird, fish or reptile, which is in captivity or confinement or is maimed, pinioned or subjected to any appliance or contrivance for hindering or preventing its escape, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, para 405, p. 199 [Protection of Animals Act, 1911, s. 15(a)-(d) (UK)]...
Copyright
Copyright, an incorporeal right, being the exclusive privilege of printing, reprinting, selling, and publishing is own original work which the statute law first gave to an author in 1709, by 8 Anne, c. 19, for the term of fourteen years. Whether the right exited at Common Law is a long-vexed and still undetermined question. See Jeffries v. Boosey, (1854) 4 HLC 815. There is no copyright in an illegal or immoral publication, Southey v. Sherwood, (1817) 2 Mer 435; Stockdale v. Onwhyn, (1826) 5 B&C 173.The law of copyright now depends mainly on the (English) Copyright Act,1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 46) (July 1, 1912), and 'no person shall be entitled to copyright or any similar right in any literary dramatic, musical, or artistic work, whether published or unpublished, otherwise than under and in accordance with the provisions of this Act, or of any other statutory enactment for the time being in force' (s. 31).By sub-s. 2 of s. 1 of this Act 'copyright' is thus defined:--For the purposes of ...
Machinery
Machinery. As to the riotous destruction of machinery, see Malicious Damage Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 97), s. 11, as amended. As to the fencing of machinery in factories, see FACTORY.Chimneys which are merely solid structure built upon the ground whose part do not move at all cannot be considered to be 'machinery', Municipal Council v. M/s. Birla Jute Manufacturing Company Ltd., AIR 1983 MP 161 (166). [M.P. Nagriya Statewar Sampati Kar Adhiniyam, (14 of 1964), s. 5(ii)]The air cooling plant is also liable to be classified as machinery, Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay v. Blue Stars Ltd., AIR 1995 Bom 38 (40). [Bombay Municipal Corporation Act, (3 of 1888), Sch. H, Item 50]Includes prime movers, transmission machinery and all other appliances whereby power is generated, transformed, transmitted or applied. [Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948), s. 2 (j)]The word 'machinery' when used in ordinary language prima facie, means some mechanical contrivances which, by themselves or in com...
Sky Sign
Sky Sign. This expression is defined in s. 91 (3) of the Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907, as follows:-'Sky sign' meansAny word, letter, model, sign, device, or representa-tion in the nature of an advertisement, announce-ment, or direction supported on or attached to any post, pole, standard, framework, or other support wholly or in part upon, over, or above any house, building or structure which, or any part of which, sky sign shall be visible against the sky from some point in any street or public way, and includes all and every part of any such post, pole, standard, framework, or other support.The expression 'sky sign' shall also include:Any balloon, parachute, or other similar device employed wholly or in part for the purposes of any advertisement or announcement on, over, or above any house, building, structure, or erection of any kind, or on or over any street or public way;But shall not include:(a) Any flagstaff, pole, vane, or weathercock unless adapted or used wholly or ...
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