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Public lamp
Public lamp, means an electric lamp used for the lighting of any street. [Electricity Act, 2003 (36 of 2003), s. 2(53)]...
Blast lamp
A lamp provided with some arrangement for intensifying combustion by means of a blast...
Carcel lamp
A French mechanical lamp for lighthouses in which a superabundance of oil is pumped to the wick tube by clockwork...
Fresnel lamp
A lantern having a lamp surrounded by a hollow cylindrical Fresnel lens...
Lamp post
A post generally a pillar of iron supporting a lamp or lantern for lighting a street park etc...
Pilot lamp
A small incandescent telltale lamp on a dynamo or battery circuit to show approximately by its brightness the voltage of the current...
Lights of vehicles
Lights of vehicles. The (English) Road Transport Lighting Act, 1927 (17 & 18 Geo. 5, c. 37), provides for the lighting of vehicles of every description (except railway locomotives, carriages and trucks, tramcars, trolley vehicles), but including machines and implements of any kind, whether drawn by animal or propelled mechanically. Briefly, the Act deals as follows:-S. 1. Obligatory lights to be carried by vehicles at night.S. 2. Restrictions on the number and nature of lamps to be carried.S. 3. Conditions regulating the use of lamps on vehicles.S. 4. Restrictions on movement of lamps.S. 5. Special provisions as to bicycles and tricycles.S. 6. Horse-drawn vehicles.S. 7. Vehicles carrying overhanging or projecting loads.S. 8. Special provisions as to vehicles towing and being towed.S. 9. Regulations as to reflectors.Penalties, repeals, provisions as to regulations, etc.As to bicycles, see the (English) Road Traffic Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 50), s. 19. (English) Road Transport Light...
Contempt of court
Contempt of court, means civil contempt or criminal contempt.--A disobedience to or disregard of the rules, orders, process, or dignity of a Court, which has power to punish for such offence by committal. Contempts are either direct, which only insult or resist the powers of the Court, or the persons of the judges who preside there; or consequential, which, without such gross insolence or direct opposition, plainly tend to create a universal disregard of their authority. Contempts may be divided into acts of contempt committed in the Court itself (in facie curi') and out of Court. Among the former are all unseemly behaviour (for which, and which only (see Reg. v. Lefroy, (1873) LR 8 QB 134), there is an express power to punish by s. 162 of the (English) County Courts Act, 1888), as talking boisterously, applauding any part of the proceedings, refusing to be sworn or to answer a question as a witness, interfering with the business of the Court on the part of a person who has no right to...
Public policy
Public policy, connotes some matter which concerns public good and the public interest. Expression does not admit of precise definition. Concept of 'public policy' is considered to be vague, susceptible to narrow or wider meaning depending upon the content in which it is used, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. v. Saw Pipes Ltd., AIR 2003 SC 2629.Public policy, connotes some matter which concerns the public good and the public interest, Central Inland Water Transport Corporation Ltd. v. Broja Nath Ganguly, AIR 1986 SC 1571; Shri Parsar v. Municipal Board, (1997) 1 WLC 443.Public policy, demands that where fraud might have been contemplated but was not perpetrated, the defendants should not be allowed to perpetrate a new fraud. If the illegality of the transaction is trivial or venial and the plaintiff is not required to rest his case upon that illegality, then public policy demands that the defendant should not be allowed to take advantage of the position, Kedar Nath Motani v. Prahla...
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