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Plan. In the (English) Copyright Act, 1911, 'literary work' includes 'plans' (s. 35); and see also as to plans, s. 2, sub-s. (1) (ii). see COPYRIGHT. Under various Acts, plans have to be deposited with local authorities for various purposes. If the local authority neglects to pass the plans the remedy is by mandamus, Davis v. Bromley Corporation, (1908) 1 KB 170 and R. v. Cambrdige Corporation, (1922) 1 KB 250. As to a purchaser's right to have the property conveyed to him by reference to a plan on his conveyance, see Re Sansom, (1910) 1 Ch 741; Re Sparrow, ib. 2 Ch 60, and as to maps as evidence, Storey v. Eastborune R.D.C., (1927) 1 Ch 367.Under the Land Registration Act, 1925, s. 76, land may be described by description on a map or plan. For the practice of the Land Registry, consult The Land Registry General Map, by W.S. Tratman, and LR Rules, 272-285.As to the property in plans, see ARCHITECT.In common acceptation mean 'a drawing or diagram made by projections on a horizontal plan...
Occupation
Occupation, also is employed as referring to that which occupies time and attention; a calling; or a trade; and it is only as employed in this sense that the word is discussed in the following paragraphs.There is nothing ambiguous about the word 'occupation' as it is used in the sense of employing one's time. It is a relative term, in common use with a well-understood meaning, and very broad in its scope and significance. It is described as a generic and very comprehensive term, which includes every species of the genus, and encompasses the incidental, as well as the main, requirements of one's vocation calling, or business. The word 'occupation' is variously defined as meaning the principal business of one's life; the principal or usual business in which a man engages; that which principally takes up one's time, thought, and energies; that which occupies or engages the time and attention; that particular business, profession, trade, or calling which engages the time and efforts of an ...
Of
Of, 'of' is sometimes the equivalent of after. V.S. Metha (in re:), AIR 1970 AP 234 (236). (Factories Act, 1948, s. 106)Of, may denote 'novice, such as origin or existence. It is also defined as meaning 'belonging to, pertaining to, connected with or associated with'. It is also defined as meaning 'from, among by, concerning in, or over'. It also means 'owned or manufactured by' or it may mean residing or resident in, Corpus Juris Secundum (Vol. 67, p. 85)....
Pertain
Pertain, the words 'pertain' is synonymous with the word 'relate', see Corpus Juris Secundum, Volume 17, page 693, Doypock Systems Pvt. Ltd. v. Union of India, AIR 1988 SC 782 (799)....
To merge
To merge, means to sink or disappear in something else, to become absorbed or extinguished, to be combined or be swallowed up, Corpus Juris Secundum, Vol. LVII, pp. 1067-1068....
Professional misconduct
Professional misconduct, may consist in betraying the confidence of a client, in attempting by any means to practise a fraud or impose on or deceive the court or the adverse party or his counsel, and in fact in any conduct which tends to bring reproach on the legal profession or to alienate the favourable opinion which the public should entertain concerning it, Corpus Juris Secundum (p. 740, Vol. 7), see also R.D. Saxena v. Balram Prasad Sharma, (2000) 7 SCC 264.Means dishonesty or some conduct involving moral turpitude, State of Uttar Pradesh v. Kashi Prasad, AIR 1969 All 363.The test to be applied in all such cases is whether the proved misconduct of the advocate is such that he must be regarded as unworthy to remain a member of the honourable profession to which he has been admitted and unfit to be entrusted with the responsible duties that an advocate is called upon to perform. There is a world of difference between the giving of improper legal advice and the giving of wrong legal ...
Revoke
Revoke, carries within the idea of cancellation by the same power which originally acted and not to setting aside of an original order by higher forum of power or jurisdiction. It does not mean repudiation, Corpus Juris Secundum, 1952 Edn., Vol. 77.Means an act of recalling or calling back, the act by which one having the right annuls something pre-viously done, Webster's Third New International Dictionary.Means the recall of some authority or thing granted or a destroying or making void of some deed that had existence until the act of revocation made it void, Black's Law Dictionary....
Terminus, terminal and terminal tax
Terminus, terminal and terminal tax, the word 'terminus' according to Oxford Dictionary means a point situated at or forming the end or extremity of somethings situated at the end of a line of railway. In other words, terminus means the point to which main action tends, goal, end, finishing point, the point at which something comes to an end. In Corpus Juris Secundum, Vol. 62, page 729 the word 'terminal' in connection with transportation means the fixed beginning or ending point of a given run. It would thus appear that a terminal tax could be levied only by the Corporation or the State which is the final destination of the goods sent from any other area, Man Mohan Tuli v. Municipal Corporation of Delhi, AIR 1981 SC 991 (994): (1981) 2 SCC 467: (1981) 2 SCR 894.Terminus means the point to which motion or action tends, goal, end, finishing point; sometimes that from which it starts; starting point. An end; extremity; the point at which something comes to an end, Express Mills v. Munici...
Timber
Timber, has an enlarged or restricted sense, according to the connection in which it is employed, and may refer to standing trees or wood suitable for the manufacture of lumber to be used for building and allied purposes, Corpus Juris Secundum, Vol. 54, p. 1.Timber, may be used in a restricted as well as enlarged sense. In the restricted sense it means specified trees like oak, ash, elm, teace, blackwood, ebony etc. and in the enlarged sense it means woods suitable for building, furniture, and carpentry etc., and includes standing trees. Its true meaning has to be determined from the context in which it is employed, Divisional Forest Officer v. Tata Finlay Ltd., AIR 2001 SC 2672. [See also Kerala Grants and Leases (Modification of Rights) Act, 1980, s. 4]Means at common law oak, ash and elm are timber if over twenty years old, but not so old as to have unusable wood in them. Other trees may be timber by the custom of the country. Thus beech is timber by the custom of Buckinghamshire an...
Novell'
Novell', those constitutions of the Civil law which were made after the publication of the Theodosian code; but sometimes the Julian edition only is meant.Novell', or Novell' Constitutiones, from a part of the Corpus Juris. Most of them were published in Greek, and their Greek title is Avtokpatopos' Invotiviavov Auyovotov nepai Siataeves. Some of them were published in Latin, and some in both languages.The first of these Novell' of Justinian belongs to the year A.D. 535 (Nov. 1), and the latest on the year A.D. 565 (Nov. 137), but most of them were published between the years 535 and 539. These Constitutiones were published after the completion of the second edition of the Code, for the purpose of supplying what was deficient in that work. Indeed, it appears that on the completion of his second edition of the new Code, the emperor designed to form many new constitutions which he might publish into a body by themselves, so as to render a third revision of the Code unnecessary, and that ...
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