Drop Cloth - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: drop clothdrop cloth
a sheet of material used to cover objects or surfaces while painting a ceiling or wall of a house so as to protect objects from being marred by drops of paint splashed inadvertantly in the painting process Originally such drop cloths were made of cloth but more recently paper or plastic have also commonly been used...
Dropping
The action of causing to drop or of letting drop falling...
Ruperts drop
A kind of glass drop with a long tail made by dropping melted glass into water It is remarkable for bursting into fragments when the surface is scratched or the tail broken so called from Prince Rupert nephew of Charles I by whom they were first brought to England Called also Ruperts ball and glass tear...
Drop
Drop: When the members of a court are equally divided on the argument showing cause against a rule nisi, no order is made, i.e., the rule is neither discharged nor made absolute, and is said to drop. In practice, there being a right to appeal, it has been usual to make on order in one way, the junior judge withdrawing his judgment; see e.g., Bunch v. Great Western Railway Company, (1886) 17 QBD 217....
Cloth manufactured by mills
Cloth manufactured by mills, cloth has been divided broadly into two categories, mill made and loom made. The loom made cloth would include all cloth manufactured on looms. The energy by which the looms are worked would not make any difference. In other words whether the energy is supplied manually or by power cannot convert the essential character of the cloth, namely, its manufacture on looms. As regard mill made cloth the actual process of weaving is more or less automatic, pre-conceived and definite and it involves the functioning of machinery, Sales Tax Commissioner v. Ladha Singh Mal Singh, (1971) Supp SCR 941: AIR 1971 SC 2221: (1971) 2 SCC 407. [U.P. Sales Tax Act (15 of 1948), s. 3A]...
Cloth
Cloth. By 12 Edw. 3, c. 3, no cloth made beyond sea might be brought into the kingdom on paint of forfeiture of the goods and punishment of the importer.Going by the meaning given in dictionaries as well as by its generally accepted popular connotation 'cloth' is woven, knitted or felted material which is pliable and is capable of being wrapped, folded or wound around. It need not necessarily be material suitable for making garments because there can be 'cloth' suitable only for industrial purpose; but nevertheless it must possess the basic feature of pliability. Hard and thick material which cannot be wrapped or wound around cannot be regarded as 'cloth', Filterco v. Commissioner of Sales Tax, (1986) 1 SCR 239: AIR 1986 SC 626 (627): (1986) 2 SCC 103. [MP General Sales Tax Act (2 of 1959) s. 42B and Sch. I, Entry 6]...
Cotton cloth factories
Cotton cloth factories. There are specially regulated by the (English) Factory and Workshop (Cotton Cloth Factories) Act, 1929 (c. 15), and the regulations made under that Act; the (English) Cotton Cloth Factories Regulations, 1929 (S.R. & O. 1929, No. 300). This Act repeals the (English) Factory and Workshop Act, 1901 (1 Edw. 7, c. 22), ss. 90-96, and Schedl. IV., so far as it relates to cotoon cloth factories which took the place of therepealed Cotton Cloth Factories Act, 1889, in respect to restricting the amount of moisture in the atmosphere, the admission of fresh air, and the prevention of the inhalation of dust....
Ready made clothing
Ready made clothing, the expression ready made clothing mean clothing which is ready for immediate use, AIR 1953 All 245. [Cotton Cloth and Yarn Control Order, (1945), Cl. 3(a)]...
Drop
The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass a liquid globule a minim hence also the smallest easily measured portion of a fluid a small quantity as a drop of water...
drop forge
a device for making large forgings in which a heavy hammer drops onto the metalwork to be forged pressing it into a form or anvil underneath or between dies...
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