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Rent [fr. reditus Lat.], a certain profit issuing yearly out of lands and tenements corporeal; it may be regarded as of a two fold nature--first, as some-thing issuing out of the land, as a compensation for the possession during the term; and secondly, as an acknowledgment made by the tenant to the lord of his fealty or tenure. It must always be a profit, yet there is no necessity that it should be, as it usually is, a sum of money; for spurs, capons, horses, corn, and other matters, may be, and occasionally are, rendered by way of rent; it may also consist in services or manual operations, as to plough so many acres of ground and the like; which services, in the eye of the law, are profits. The profit must be certain, or that which may be reduced to a certainty by either party; it must issue yearly, though it may be reserved every second, third, or fourth year; it must issue out of the thing granted, and not be part of the land or the thing itself.Consideration paid, usu. periodically...
Firmware
Firmware, 'software kept in semi-permanent memory. Firmware is used in conjunction with hardware and software. It also shares the characteristics of both. Firmware is usually stored on PROMs (Programmable Read-Only Memory) or EPROMs (Electrical PROMs). Firmware contains software which is so constantly called upon by a computer or phone system that it is 'burned' into a chip, thereby becoming firmware. The computer program is written into the PROM electrically at higher-than-usual voltage, causing the bits to 'retain' the pattern as it is 'burned in'. Firmware is non-volatile. It will not be 'forgotten' when the power is shut off. Handheld calculators contain firmware with the instructions for doing their various mathematical operations. Firmware programs can be altered. An EPROM is typically erased using intense ultraviolet light', Newton's Telecom dictionary. C.C.E. v. Acer India Ltd., (2004) 8 SCC 173 (182)....
Salary or wages
Salary or wages, means all remuneration (other than remuneration in respect of over-time work) capable of being expressed in terms of money, which would, if the terms of employment, express or implied, were fulfilled, be payable to an employee in respect of his employment or of work done in such employment and includes dearness allowance (that is to say, all cash payments, by whatever name called, paid to an employee on account of a rise in the cost of living), but does not include--(i) any other allowance which the employee is for the time being entitled to;(ii) the value of any house accommodation or of supply of light, water, medical attendance or other amenity or of any service or of any concessional supply of foodgrains or other articles.(iii) any travelling concession;(iv) any bonus (including incentive, production and attendance bonus);(v) any contribution paid or payable by the employer to any pension fund or provident fund or for the benefit of the employee under any law for t...
Steam launch
Steam launch, includes, on the Thames, 'any vessel propelled by steam, electricity, or other mechanical power, no tbeing used solely as a tug or for the carriage of goods and not being certified by the Board of Trade as a passenger steamer to carry 200 or more passengers,' and must be registered, display lights after sunset and before sunrise, etc., Thames Conservancy Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii.), ss. 3, 138, 147, 148; see now the consolidating Thames Conservancy Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. xxxvii.); Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Thames.'...
Video
Video, is the transmission and reception of a tele-vised image. It is a television image or the electric signals corresponding to it. It pertains to the picture portion of the televised programe. 'Pro-jector' is a device for projecting a light beam, an apparatus for throwing illuminated images or motion pictures on the screen, Collector of Central Excise v. Fuse Base Eltoto Ltd., AIR 1994 SC 1289 (1921): (1993) 4 JT 280: (1993) 48 ECR 2: (1993) 67 ELT 30. [Central Excise and Sales Act, 1944]...
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