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Definition clause

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Goods

some programs may be tailored for specific purposes need not alter their status as 'goods' because the Code definition includes 'specially manufactured goods', Advent Systems Ltd. v. Unisys Corpn., 925 F. 2d 670 3d Cir 1991. Associated … AIR 1977 SC 687: (1977) 2 SCC 77: (1977) 2 SCR 149. The term 'goods' is defined in clause (7) of s. 2 of the Sale of Goods Act as follows: Goods means every kind of movable

Includes

ingredient or element. It is no doubt true that generally when the word 'Include' is used in a definition clause it is used as a word of enlarge-ment, that is to make the definition extensive and not restrictive … the effect is not otherwise be regarded as included in that sense. It is undoubtedly true that a definition clause, so expressed, is ordinarily not exhaustive but it can be so in certain contexts, Tarak Chandra v. Ratanlal,

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State

in Part IV of the Constitution under Article 36. No reason was shown as to why the enlarged definition of 'State' given in Parts III and IV of the Constitution would be attracted to Article 131 of … SCC 67. (Constitution of India, Art. 131) Though the definition of 'State' in s. 3(58) of the General Clauses Act, 1897, taking within it Union territories applies to the interpretation of the Constitution, this inclusive definition is

Clause

Matched in: Term Clause

Industry

1976 SC 145: (1975) 2 SCC 847: (1976) 2 SCR 138. The definition of the word 'industry' in clause (b) of the Explanation to that section is undoubtedly unduly wide since it includes 'any business, profession, trade, … Industry, 'Industrial dispute' and 'workman' taken in the extended significance, or exclude it. Though the word 'undertaking' in definition of industry is wedged in between business and trade on the one hand and manufacture on the other,

Criminal contempt

Clause (c) of S. 2 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 (70 of 1971) merely codifies the definition of 'criminal contempt' which had previously been crystallised by judicial decisions. It defines 'criminal contempt' to mean publication

Interpretation Clause

Matched in: Term Interpretation Clause

Means and/or includes

Means and/or includes, Where an interpretation clause defines a word to mean a particular thing, the definition is explanatory and prima facie restrictive; and whenever an interpretation clause defines a term to include something, the

Unlawful activity, unlawful association

Unlawful activity, unlawful association, clauses (f) and (g) of s. 2 contain definition of 'unlawful activity' and 'unlawful association' respectively. An 'unlawful activity', defined in clause (f), means 'any action taken'

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