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Electric lighting. The supply of electricity for light-ing is facilitated and regulated by the (English) Electric Lighting Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 56). Under this Act powers may be obtained either (1) by license from the Board of Trade; or (2) by Provisional Order of the Board of Trade, needing confirmation by special Act of Parliament; or (3) by special Act of Parliament. The (English) Electric Lighting Clauses Act, 1899 (62 & 63 Vict. c. 19), has incorporated in one Act the usual clauses of provisional orders and special Acts, and directed that such clauses are to apply to every undertaking under the Electric Lighting Acts except so far as expressly varied. These licenses and orders may either be granted to the local authorities themselves or, with their consent, to independent contractors. Licenses continue in force for any period not exceeding seven years, but are renewable. By s. 27 of the (English) 1882 Act an undertaking autho-rized by provisional order or special Act may be...
Electric lighting fittings
Electric lighting fittings, the expression 'electric lighting fittings' is normally understood in context with the household. The dippers and switches manufactured for use in cars are not understood either in the trade circle or in common parlance as electric lighting fittings. The words 'switches, plugs and sockets' have been widened by use of the expression 'all kinds', but the words used have to take colour from the genesis of the entry, that is, electric lighting fittings. Since the main or the principal entry deals with electric lighting fittings in the households, the switches and dippers manufactured by the respondent for exclusive use in motor vehicles cannot be said to be covered in the aforesaid entry, Union of India v. J.M.A. Industries, (1995) 3 SCC 389. [Central Excise and Salt Act, 1944, Items 61 (as introduced in 1981), 34A (as amended in 1979) and 68]...
droplight
An electric or gas light suspended from the ceiling by a flexible cord or tube allowing artificial light to be brought down from a chandelier nearer to a table or desk a pendant also an electric light bulb in a small holder which can be held in the hand or hung from a hook and attached to a long electric cord allowing light to be brought close to work in dark areas of a room...
Photo electric
Acting by the operation of both light and electricity said of apparatus for producing pictures by electric light...
Full compensation
Full compensation. See s. 16 of the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 16), Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Railways,' and s. 17 of the Electric Lighting Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 56), ibid., tit. 'Electric Lighting,' by which 'full compensation' is granted for damage by exercise of the powers under the Acts. See COMPENSATION....
Electrical light
the light produced by a current of electricity which in passing through a resisting medium heats it to incandescence or burns it See under Carbon...
Bulk
Bulk. See LADEN IN BULK. The electric Lighting Act, 1909 (9 Edw. 7, c. 34), provides (s. 4) for the 'supply of electricity in bulk,' which means (s. 25) to supply electricity-(a) to any local authority, company, or person authorized to distribute electricity to be used for the purposes of distribution, or(b) to any local authority authorized by any general or special Act to undertake or contract for the lighting of streets, bridges, or public places, to be used for the purposes of lighting streets, bridges, and public places....
jacklight
A portable source of light as an oil lantern or electric light used as a lure for hunting at night...
Injunction
Injunction, Expression 'injunction' in s. 41(b) is not qualified by an adjective and, therefore, it would, comprehend both interim and perpetual injunc-tion, Cotton Corporation of India v. United Industries Ltd., AIR 1983 SC 1272 (1277): (1983) 4 SCC 625. [Specific Relief Act, 1963, s. 41(b)]This is the discretionary process of preventive and remedial justice, whereby a person is required to refrain from doing a specified meditated wrong, not amounting to a crime. It is either (1) inter-locutory, i.e., provisional or temporary, until the coming in of the defendant's answer, or until the hearing of the cause; or (2) perpetual, i.e., forming part of a decree made at a hearing upon the merits, whereby the defendant is perpetually inhibited from the assertion of a right, or perpetually res-trained from the commission of an act contrary to equity and good conscience. As to mandatory injunctions, see post.See Specific Relief Act, 1963 (47 of 1963), s. 37.Prior to the Judicature Act injunctio...
Public lamp
Public lamp, means an electric lamp used for the lighting of any street. [Electricity Act, 2003 (36 of 2003), s. 2(53)]...
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