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Convention country
Convention country, means a country notified as such under s. 93. [Semiconductor Integrated Cir-cuits Layout-Design Act, 2000 (37 of 2000), s. 2 (f)]means a country or a country which is member of a group of countries or a union of countries or an Inter-governmental organisation notified as such under sub-s. (1) of s. 133. [Patents Act, 1970 (39 of 1970), s. 2 (1) (d)]'Convention country' means a country which has acceded to an international convention for the protection of plant varieties to which India has also acceded, or a country which has a law on protection of plant varieties on the basis of which India has entered into an agreement for granting plant breeders' right to the citizens of both the countries. [Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmer's Rights Act, (53 of 2001), s. 2(f)]...
Berne Convention country
Berne Convention country, means a country which is a party to any Act of the International Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 9(2), 4th Edn., p. 80....
Hague conference
Hague conference. A conference of representatives of different States to consider the question of international peace and kindred subjects. So called because the place of meeting has been The Hague in South Holland (Netherlands). The first Hague Conference was the outcome of a circular letter of the Czar of Russia handed to all the foreign representatives accredited to the Court of St. Petersburg on the 24th August, 1898, and as a result the first Peace Conference met on 18th May, 1899. This conference brought about the creation of a Permanent Court of Arbitration, and each of the Powers signing the Hague Arbitration Convention could appoint four persons, who constituted a panel or general list of arbitrators from which as occasion arises selection can be made. The Hague Arbitration Court has dealt with complicated international disputes. A second Peace Conference met at the Hague on 18th June, 1907. Consult Higgins, Hague Conference.Means the convention on the service Abroad of Judici...
Foreign award
Foreign award, an award in pursuance of an arbitration agreement governed by India Law, if the conditions under s. 44 are satisfied, will not cease to be a foreign award, merely because the arbitration agreement is governed by the law of India, Centrotrade Minerals & Metal Inc. v. Hindustan Copper Ltd., 2006 (2) R.A.J. 531: 2006 (5) JT 507: 2006 (5) SCALE 535: 2006 (6) Supreme 519: 2006 (4) SCJ 217: 2006 (7) SCJD 112: 2006 (20 Arb LR 547. [Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, s. 44 & 2(e)]An award made outside India, even if governed by Indian Law, may be a foreign award but it must satisfy two conditions, viz., that it is made (i) in pursuance of an agreement in writing for arbitration to which the New York Convention applies, and (ii) in one of such territories which the Central Government has notified in the Official Gazette to be a territory to which the New York Convention applies, Centrotrade Minerals & Metal Inc. v. Hindustan Copper Ltd., 2006 (2) R.A.J. 531: 2006 (5) JT 507:...
Consul
Consul, an officer appointed by competent authority to reside in a foreign country, to facilitate and extend the commerce carried on between the subjects of the country which appoints him and those of the country or place in which he is to reside. The office appears to have originated in Italy, about the middle of the twelfth century, and was generally established all over Europe in the sixteenth century. British consuls were formerly appointed by the Crown, upon the recommenda-tion of great trading companies, or of merchants engaged in trade with a particular country and place; but they are now directly appointed by Government, without requiring any such recommendation, though it, of course, is always attended to wen made. The right of sending consuls to reside in foreign countries depends either upon a tacit or express convention.The duties of a consul, even in the confined sense in which they are commonly understood, are important and multifarious. It is his business to be always on...
Letters-patent, or letters overt
Letters-patent, or letters overt [fr. liter' patentes, Lat.], writings of the sovereign, sealed with the Great Seal of England, whereby a person or public company is enabled to do acts or enjoy privileges which he or it could not do or enjoy without such authority. They are so called because they are open with the seal affixed and ready to be shown for confirmation of the authority thereby given. Peers are sometimes created by letters-patent, and letters-patent of precedence were granted to barristers. By letters-patent aliens are made denizens, and especially new inventions are protected; hence the incorporeal chattel of patent-right.A 'patent-right' is a privilege granted by the Crown to the first inventor of any new contrivance in manufactures, that he alone shall be entitled, during a limited period, to make Articles according to his own invention--Statute of Monopolies, 21 Jac. 1, c. 3.To be the subject of a patent-right an article must be material and capable of manufacture, an i...
Declaration of London, 1909
Declaration of London, 1909. A suggested International agreement to settle doubts concerning inter alia the application of the doctrines of contraband, neutral destination and continuous voyage. A list of three classes of goods was made: (1) absolute contraband or munitions of war; (2) conditionally contraband, or foodstuffs, forage, money, railway materials, fuel, lubricants, barbed wire and optical instruments; (3) not contraband, or any raw textile materials, rubber, hides, metallic ores, earths. Eleven countries signed the convention. With a prescience justified by the developments of science and the uncontrollable nature of a desperate war, the House of Lords refused to ratify it. In practice the declaration was followed by Great Britain and other belligerents with increasing alterations until it was formally, and finally abandoned by this country in April, 1916. A modified list of Articles absolutely or conditionally contraband was issued shortly after. See Hall or Lawrence on In...
Foreign law
Foreign law in the courts of this country is a question of fact, which is decided by the judge, not the jury (Administration of Justice Act, 1920, s. 15). See LAW, QUESTIONS OF, and SKILLED WITNESS. By the (English) Foreign Law Ascertainment Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 11), the High Court of Justice may remit a case with queries to foreign courts of the countries with which a convention shall have been entered into for the purpose by the British Crown for ascertainment of the foreign law, and may apply the opinion obtained to the facts of the case. According to a note in the Annual Practice, 1936 p. 658, 'in the only case in which it is known to have been used, the report of the foreign authority was received through the diplomatic channel and was filed in the Central Office, in the same way as depositions are filed; an office copy being taken for use.'...
Parliament
Parliament, British Parliament consists of sovereign, House of Lords and the House of Commons. The Power of Parliament is transcendent and its Acts bind every subject; no authority other than Parliament can create, amend or abrogate a statute, Office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth Wilding and Philip Laundry, p. 429.Parliament, consists of the President, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha; each of its branches has peculiar powers in connection with their joint legislative function, Constitution of India, Art. 79, Parlia-mentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997.Parliament, has power to amend Constitution. (Constitution of India, Art. 368)Parliament, has power to make any law for the whole or any part of the territory of India for implementing any treaty, agreement or convention with any other country or countries or any decision made at any international conference, association or other body, Constitution of India, Art. 253.Parliament, like the British Parliament, the Par...
Postal Convention
Postal Convention, a treaty made at Berne in October, 1874, for the regulation of rates of postage and matters connected with the Post Office, between England and various other countries. See 38 & 39 Vict. c. 22, now repealed by the (English) Post Office Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 48). See now (English) Post Office Acts, 1908-1935, and 45 & 46 Vict. c. 74, ss. 14 and 15....
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