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Engage, according to the Black's Law Dictionary, 6th Edition, at page 528 the term 'engage' means 'To employ or involve one's self; to take part in; to embark on', Hindustan Lever Ltd. v. Ashok Vishnu Kate, AIR 1996 SC 285 (294): (1995) 6 SCC 326.Means to employ or involve one's self; to take part in: to embark on, Black's Law Dictionary, 6th Edn., p. 528....
Engaged in discharging
Engaged in discharging, means 'A lighter or craft is 'engaged in discharging' ballast or goods within an exemption from dock dues, if she goes to the place of discharge in the docks with the real intention of discharging there, although. From the place getting too full to take the ballast or goods the vessel has to depart without making any discharge (Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, 5th Edn., p. 847)....
Engager
One who enters into an engagement or agreement a surety...
Engagement
The act of engaging pledging enlisting occupying or entering into contest...
Engaging
Tending to draw the attention or affections attractive as engaging manners or address...
Engaged in
Engaged in, denote the person's employment at the relevant time not whether he was acting within his authority, Regina v. Sargent, (2001) 3 WLR 992 (HL) (E): (2001) UKHL 54....
Undertake
Undertake, means to take on oneself; to engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; set about; attempt; as, to undertake a task or a journey; and specifically, to take upon oneself solemnly or expressly. To lay oneself under obligation or to enter into stipula-tion; to perform or to execute; to covenant; to contract. Hence, to guarantee; be surety for; promise; to accept or take over as a charge; to accept or to accept responsibility for the care of. To engage to look after or attend to, as to undertake a patient or guest. To endeavour to perform or try; to promise, engage, agree or assume an obligation, Black's Law Dictionary, 5th Edn., see also Kartar Singh Bhadana v. Hari Singh Nalwa, (2001) 4 SCC 661....
trade
trade 1 a : the business or work in which one engages regularly b : an occupation requiring manual or mechanical skill c : the persons engaged in an occupation 2 : the business of buying and selling or bartering commodities 3 : an act or instance of trading ;also : an exchange of property usually without use of money vb trad·ed trad·ing vi 1 : to engage in the exchange, purchase, or sale of goods 2 : to give one thing in exchange for another 3 : to engage in selling vt 1 : to give in exchange for another commodity ;also : to make an exchange of 2 : to engage in frequent buying and selling of (as stocks or commodities) usually in search of quick profits trad·able also trade·able adj adj 1 : of, relating to, or used in trade or in a particular trade or business 2 also: trades : of, composed of, or representing the trades or labor unions ...
Pawn or Pledge
Pawn or Pledge [fr. pignus, Lat.], a bailment of goods by a debtor to his creditor, to be kept till the debt is discharged.A mortgage of goods is in the Common Law distinguishable from a mere pledge or pawn. By a mortgage the whole legal title passes conditionally to the mortgagee; and if the goods be not redeemed at the stipulated time, the title becomes absolute at law although equity allows a redemption. But in a pledge, a special property only passes to the pledgee, the general property remaining in the pledgor. Also, in the case of a pledge, the right of a pledgee is not consummated, except by possession; and, ordinarily, when that possession is relinquished, the right of the pledgee is extinguished or waived. But, in the case of a mortgage of personal property the right of property passes by the conveyance to the mortgagee, and the possession is not or may not be essential to create or support the title.As to things which may be the subject of pawn: These are, ordinarily, goods a...
Undertaking
Undertaking, denotes 'any business or any work or project which one engages in or attempts as an enterprise analogous to business or trade, Secretary Madras Gymkhana Club Employees Union v. Manage-ment of Gymkhana Club, AIR 1968 SC 554: (1968) 2 SCJ 138: (1968) 1 SCA 379: (1967) 2 SCWR 618: (1967) 2 Lab LJ 720: 33 FJR 157: (1968) Lab JC 547: (1968) 2 Andh WR (SC) 6: (1968) 2 Mad LJ (SC) 6: 15 Fac LR 411: 16 Law Rep 140.Undertaking, denotes, with reference to company law, all the assets of the company past present and future, and is a mortgageable interest being commonly charged by the debentures of the company. 'Undertaking' means a unit, such as a factory or a granary, Industrial Disputes Tribunal (in re:), (1956) 3 All ER 111.Undertaking, in a compromise decree does not mean a promise to a court. It is merely a solemn promise by one party to the other when it appears in an agreement between the two, Nisha Kant Roy v. Sandji Bashnai, Goho, AIR 1948 Cal 294: 49 Cr LJ 567.Undertaking, i...
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