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Home Dictionary Name: dry goods Page 1 of about 6 results (0.004 seconds)Dealer
One who deals one who has to do or has concern with others esp a trader a trafficker a shopkeeper a broker or a merchant as a dealer in dry goods a dealer in stocks a retail dealer...
Dry goods
A commercial name for textile fabrics cottons woolens linen silks laces etc in distinction from groceries...
Nets
Nets. A custom for fishermen to spread their nets to dry on the lands of a private owner at all times seasonable for fishing is good, as was held of two fishermen of Walmer in Kent in Mercer v. Denne, (1904) 2 Ch 534....
Processing
Processing, in common parlance 'processing' is understood as an action which brings forth some change or alteration of the goods or material which is subjected to the act of processing. 'What is necessary in order to characterise an operation as 'processing' is that the commodity must, as a result of the operation, experience some change' (See Chowgule & Co. Pvt. Ltd. v. Union of India, 1981 (1) SCC 653: AIR 1981 SC 1014). In a cold storage, vegetables, fruits and several other articles which requires preservation by refrigeration are stored. While as a result of long storage, Scientific examination might indicate loss of moisture content that is not sufficient for holding that the stored articles have undergone a process, Delhi Cold Storage Pvt. Ltd. v. Commissioner of Income Tax, New Delhi, AIR 1991 SC 2125.Processing, include the preservation of such products as canning, freezing drying, salting, smoking, peeling or filleting etc., Regional Executive, Kerala Fishermen's Welfare Fund...
Contract
Contract, an agreement between competent parties, to do or to abstain from doing some act. For numerous other definitions, see Chalmers's Sale of Goods Act, App. II., where it is said that the 'disposition of the best modern writers appears to be to define ' contract ' as an agreement enforce-able at law,' but contended that this definition seems rather too narrow.Every contract is founded upon the mutual agree-ment of the parties; the other essentials are legality, capacity (depending on age, mental ability, sex and status) a mutual identity of consent (consensus ad idem), and form. When an agreement is stated either verbally or in writing it is usually called an express contract; when the agreement is matter of inference and deduction, it is called n implied contract. (See IMPLIED CONTRACT.)Contract, which provides that the price includes the cost of the goods, the freight and the insurance premium for the transit, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 3(1), para 253, p. 210.Contracts may...
Fruit
Fruit, as to larceny of and damage to, see Larceny Act, 1916, s. 8(3), and Malicious Damage Act, 1861, ss. 23, 24; as to compensation to market garden tenant for fruit trees and fruit bushes, see ss. 48 and 49 and Sched. III. Of the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923, which repealed and replaced the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1908, which itself had replaced the Market Gardeners Compensation Act, 1895, see Saunders-Jacob v. Yates, (1933) 2 KB 240 (market garden includes part of private premises so treated). As to importation and marking of foreign fruit, see AGRICULTURAL ACTS (marketing-produce-returns).In Webster Comprehensive Dictionary, International Edition at p. 509, the word 'fruit' has been defined, the edible, pulpy mass, covering the seeds of various plants and trees. They are classified as fleshy, as gourds, melons, oranges, apples, pears, berries, etc. drupaceous as cherries, peaches, plums, apricots, and others containing stones; dry as nuts, capsuls, ashenia, follicles, legume...
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