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Its capacity of efficiency

Its capacity of efficiency, the expression 'its capacity or efficiency' means the capacity or efficiency of the irrigation tank. The word 'capacity' in its ordinary dictionary sense means 'holding-power ' or 'receiving-power', Y. Lakshmi Narayana Reddy v. State of Andhra Pradesh, AIR 1965 SC 580 (583). [T.N. Irrigation Tanks (Improvement) Act, (19 of 1949), s. 3(1)]...


efficience

The quality of being efficient or producing an effect or effects efficient power effectual agency...


efficiency apartment

a small apartment4 sometimes furnished with minimal kitchen and bath facilities The unit may comprise a single room plus a bathroom and the kitchen facilities are often open to the main room or may form a small niche in a corner There are many variations of efficiency apartment including some in which furnishings such as a bed may be pulled out from a wall recess and stored there again when not in use Also called an efficiency...


Efficiency

Efficiency, are included all relevant matters necessary for discharging his duties efficiently and satisfactorily, State of Uttar Pradesh v. Dr. K.V. Ansari, (2002) 1 SCC 616....


efficient breach

efficient breach see breach ...


efficient intervening cause

efficient intervening cause see cause ...


efficient market

efficient market : a securities and commodities market whose prices always reflect the most accurate and up-to-date information compare fraud on the market theory ...


efficient

Causing effects producing results that makes the effect to be what it is actively operative not inactive slack or incapable characterized by energetic and useful activity as an efficient officer power...


Nulla pactione effici potest ut dolus prestetur

Nulla pactione effici potest ut dolus prestetur [Lat.], a man cannot validly contract that he shall be irresponsible for his own fraud....


Public interest

Public interest, means an act beneficial to the general public. It means action necessarily taken for public purpose, Babu Ram Verma v. State of Uttar Pradesh, (1971) All LJ 653: (1971) Serv LR 649: (1971) 2 Lab LJ 235: (1971) Lab IC 1162 (All).Means of concern or advantage to people as a whole, T.M.A. Pai Foundation v. State of Karnataka, (2002) 8 SCC 481.Means retention of honest and efficient employees and weeding of inefficient and dishonest, Indira Saxena v. Municipal Council, 1995 Jab LJ 28.Means those interests which concern the public at large, Law Lexicon, 2nd Edn., Reprint 2000, at p. 1557). See also T.M.A. Pai Foundation v. State of Karnataka, (2002) 8 SCC 481.Refers to cases where the interests of public adminis-tration require the retirement of a government servant who with the passage of years has pre-maturely ceased to possess the standard of efficiency, competence and utility called for by the government service to which he belongs. No stigmas or implication of misbehav...


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