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dv See Diversity Visa. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...


Remuneration

Remuneration, 'remuneration' is only a mere formal version of payment, Bala Subrahmanya Rajaram v. B.C. Patil, AIR 1958 SC 518: (1958) SCR 1504.Payment; compensation, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1298.The word 'remuneration' must be given its meaning with reference to the context in which the word occurs in the statute. In the Banking Act the word 'remuneration' has been used in the widest sense. In that sense, it undoubtedly includes bonus, Central Bank of India v. Their Workmen, AIR 1960 SC 12: (1960) 1 SCR 200. [Banking Regulation Act, 1949, s. 10(1)(b)(ii)]The expression 'remuneration' in Article 314 is not used in any limited sense as merely salary. If a person was in receipt of a payment, or in receipt of a percentage, or any kind of payment which would not be actual money payment, the amount he would receive annually in respect of this would be remuneration, Accountant General v. N. Bakshi, AIR 1962 SC 505: (1962) 1 Supp SCR 505.Means the basic wage or salary, and any ad...


rank order number

rank order number The number that Kentucky Consular Center gives to the entries of DV Program (lottery) as the computer selects them. The first entries chosen have the lowest numbers. The Visa Office of the Department of State gives winning entries a chance to apply for immigration according to their rank order number for their region. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...


kentucky consular center (kcc)

kentucky consular center (kcc) A U.S. Department of State facility located in Williamsburg, Kentucky. It gives domestic (U.S.) support to the worldwide operations of the Bureau of Consular Affairs Visa Office. It manages the Diversity Visa (DV) Program. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...


Heard

Heard, The word 'heard' means that cases which have already been instituted or filed at Lucknow may in the discretion of the Chief Justice under the second proviso to paragraph 14 of the U.P. High Court (Amalgamation) Order, 1948 be directed to be heard at Allahabad, Nasiruddin v. State Transport Appellate Tribunal, AIR 1976 SC 331: (1975) 2 SCC 671: (1976) 1 SCR 505 [U.P. High Courts (Amalgamation) Order, 1948 (Para 7, 14)]...


Under colour of duty

Under colour of duty, means where a police officer, taking advantage of his position as a police officer and availing himself of the opportunity coerces a person to pay illegal gratification to him, this cannot be said to have been done under colour of duty, Bhanuprasad Hariprasad Dave v. State of Gujarat, AIR 1968 SC 1323: (1968) Cr LJ 505....


Supplies and services

Supplies and services, all supplies are not services and all services are not supplies but the complex needs and samenities of modern life and the multifarious obligations of a welfare State mingle supplies and services so much that the concentric circle geometry becomes a misleading stroke of conceptualism in this journal area. For example, an essential commodity is at once a supply and a service. Rushing food supplies to a nation in hunger is a composite operation of supplies and services essential to the life of the community and the order is not bad because it telescopes both, Jagdish Prasad v. State of Bihar, AIR 1974 SC 911: (1974) 4 SCC 455: (1974) 3 SCR 369.Indulging in black-marketing is conduct which is prejudicial to the maintenance of supplies. It is hardly necessary to read supplies conjunctively with services as was contended although cases may exist where supplies and services may both be affected. The word 'and' is not used conjunctively but disjunctively. If sweepers' ...


Restoration

Restoration, Restoration under s. 70 of the Indian Contract Act means that the defendant would have to restore the goods to the plaintiff by delivering the same to the plaintiff. As long as there is intimation by the defendant to the plaintiff that the plaintiff can take back the goods the defendant evinces intention of restoration, Union of India v. Sita Ram Jaiswal, AIR 1977 SC 329 (331): (1976) 4 SCC 505. (Contract Act, 1872, s. 70)...


Restitution

Restitution, the restoring anything unjustly taken from another; also putting in possession of lands or tenements him who had been unlawfully disseised of them; a person being attainted of treason, etc., he or his heirs may be restored to his lands, etc., by royal charter of pardon.The word 'restitution' in its etymological sense means restoring to a party on the modification, variation or reversal of a decree what has been lost to him in execution of the decree or in direct consequence of the decree. In such a proceeding, the party seeking restitution is not required to satisfy the court about its title or right to the property save and except showing its deprivation under a decree and the reversal or variation of the decree, Zafar Khan v. Board of Revenue, AIR 1985 SC 39 (46): (1984) Supp SCC 505: (1985) 1 SCR 287. (Civil Procedure Code, 1908, s. 144)Return or restoration of some specific thing to its rightful owner or status, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1315...


Official

Official, according to the dictionary, means pertain-ing to an office, S.K. Zutshi v. Bimal Debnath, (2004) 8 SCC 31 (38); See also State of Orissa v. Ganesh Chandra Jew, (2004) 8 SCC 40. (Criminal PC, 1973, s. 197)Official, formal; authorised.In the Civil Law, he is a minister of, or attendant upon, a magistrate. In the Canon Law, he is the person to whom a bishop commits the charge of his spiritual jurisdiction; there is one in every diocese, called officialis principalis, i.e., chancellor; the rest,if there are more, are officiales foranei, i.e., commissaries. in our statute she is the person whom the archdeacon appoints as his substitute. Wood's Inst. 30, 505...


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