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A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane called also a contrate wheel or face wheel...
Wheels
Wheels, sub-clause (xiv) specifies 'wheels, tyres, axles and wheel sets.' The rim of a cycle, manufactured by the appellant is admittedly a part of a wheel. Without a rim the other parts cannot be regarded as a wheel. Moreover the entry has to be read as a whole and the meaning also assigned to the words 'wheel sets' in the said entry and a rim which is admittedly a part of a wheel set would fall in the said entry, Dewan Enterprises v. C.S.T., (1996) 8 SCC 351 (352). [Uttar Pradesh Sales Tax Act, 1948 (15 of 1948), s. 3A and item 10]...
Abrasive wheel
Abrasive wheel, means any of the following which is, or is intended to be, power driven and which is for use in any grinding or cutting operation (i) a wheel, cylinder, disc or cone which, whether or not any other material is comprised in it, consists of abrasive particles held together by mineral, metallic or organic bonds whether natural or artificial, (ii) a mounted wheel or point and a wheel or disc with separate segments of abrasive materials; (iii) a wheel or disc made of metal, wood, cloth, felt, rubber or paper with any surface consisting wholly or partly of abrasive material and (iv) a wheel, disc or saw to any surface of which is attached rim or segments consisting diamond abrasive particles, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 21, 4th Edn., para 721, Note 2, p. 563....
Ferris wheel
An amusement device consisting of a giant power driven vertically oriented steel wheel revolvable on its horizontal stationary axle and carrying a number of balanced passenger cars or open seats around its rim the seats are suspended so as to remain horizontal as the wheel rotates and depending on the size of the wheel the passengers when they reach the top may have a grand vista of the surrounding area so called after G W G Ferris American engineer who erected the first of its kind for the Worlds Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893...
Crown
Crown [fr. Couronne, Fr.; corona, Lat.], an ornamental badge of regal power worn on the head by sovereign princes. The word is frequently used when speaking of the sovereign himself, or the rights, duties, and prerogatives belonging to him.The Act of Supremacy (English) (1 Eliz. C. 1), 'restoring to the Crown the Ancient Jurisdiction over the State Ecclesistical and Spiritual and abolishing all Foreign Power repugnant to the same,' after repealing 1 & 2 P. & M. c. 8, reviving the Foreign Citations Act,the Act of Appeals, Abolition of Annates Act, the Act of Submission, the Confirmation of Bishops Act, the Archiepiscopal Licenses Act (23 Hen. 8, Contract Act, 1872 '. 9, 20; 24 Hen. 8, c. 12 l 25 Hen. 8, Contract Act, 1872 -. 19-21; 26 Hen. 8, c. 14; 28 Hen. 8, c. 16), and also repealing 1 & 2 P. & M. c. 6 (see HERESY), enacted that-Such jurisdictions, privileges, superiorities and pre-eminences spiritual and ecclesiastical as by any spiritualor ecclesiastical power or authority hath her...
Crown lands
Crown lands. The demesne lands of the Crown, which it is now usual for the sovereign to surrender at the commencement of his reign for its whole duration, in consideration of the Civil List settled upon him. Crown lands have been distributed and are managed respectively by the Commissioners of (English) Crown Lands (incorporated by Crown Lands Act, 1927 (17& 18 Geo. 5, c. 23), the Commissioners of Works; the Board of Trade; the Forestry Commissionrs; the Treasury. The revenues go to the Consolidated Fund, and they are managed under a series of (English) Crown Lands Acts, from the (English) Crown Lands Act, 1829 (c. 50), to the (English) Crown Lands Act, 1927 (17 & 18 Geo. 5, c. 23). See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Crown....
Crown debts
Crown debts. It is a prerogative of the Crownto claim priority for its debts before all other creditors, and to recover them by a summary process called an extent. See 33 Hen. 8, c. 39.Every person having money belonging to the Crown is a Crown-debtor. When upon in quisition a personis found to be a Crown-debtor by simple contract, the debt immediately becomes a specialty; but a person givien to the Crown a bond on condition is not a bond-debtor before the condition is broken.S. 28(1) of the Bankruptcy Act, 1914, provides that an order of discharge shall not release a bankrupt from his Crown debts.It is provided by the (English) Land Chargs Act, 1900 (63 & 64 Vict. c. 26), replaced by the Land Charges Act,1925, ss. 6 and 7, and see also the Law of Property Act, 1925, that Crown debts shall not affectlands until writ or ordr for the purpose of enforcing the judgment has been issued and registered. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Land,' and titles EXTENT; PREFERENTIAL PAYMENTS....
Catherine wheel
Same as Rose window and Wheel window Called also Catherine wheel window...
Pelton wheel
A form of impulse turbine or water wheel consisting of a row of double cup shaped buckets arranged round the rim of a wheel and actuated by one or more jets of water playing into the cups at high velocity...
Side wheel
Having a paddle wheel on each side said of steam vessels as a side wheel steamer...
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