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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)....
Engage
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
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....
Engaging
Tending to draw the attention or affections attractive as engaging manners or address...
Engager
One who enters into an engagement or agreement a surety...
Engagement
The act of engaging pledging enlisting occupying or entering into contest...
Commercial concern
Commercial concern, means a public limited com-pany or a cooperative society or a firm or any other person or body of persons engaged in trade or commerce, and includes-(i) a concern engaged in banking or insurance;(ii) a financial corporation;(iii) a concern engaged in shipping and navigation;(iv) a concern engaged in the business of brokers dealing in shares, stocks and securities and commodities;(v) a concern engaged in the business of advertising consultants;(vi) a light railway;(vii) a concern engaged in road transport service;(viii) a concern engaged in air transport service;(ix) a rubber, tea, coffee or cinchona plantation;(x) a concern engaged in the business of forwarding and clearing agents;(xi) any other concern which, in the opinion of the Central Government, is a commercial concern and is declared to be such by that Government by notification in the Official Gazette, but does not include an industrial concern. [Collection of Statistics Act, 1953 (32 of 1953), s. 2(b)]...
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...
Active duty
Active duty, in relation to a person subject to this Act, means any duty as a member of the Force during the period in which such person is attached to, or forms part of, a unit of Force-(i) which is engaged in operations against an enemy, or (ii) which is operating at a picket or engaged on patrol or other guard duty along the borders of India, and includes duty by such person during any period declared by the Central Government by notifica-tion in the Official Gazette as a period of active duty with reference to any area in which any person or class of persons subject to this Act may be serving. [Border Security Force Act, 1968, s. 2 (1)(a)]Means the duty to restore and preserve order in any local area in the event of any disturbance therein. [Central Reserve Police Force Act, 1949 (66 of 1949), s. 2 (a)]Means, in relations to a person subject to this Act means any duty as a member of the Force during the period in which such person is attached to, or forms part of, a unit of the For...
Active service
Active service. 'on active service,' as applied to a person subject to military law, is defined by the (English) Army Act (44 & 45 Vict. C. 58) as meaning 'whenever he is attached to or forms part of a force which is engaged in operations against the enemy or is engaged in military operations in a country or place wholly or partly occupied by an enemy or is in military occupation of any foreign country.'As applied to a person subject to this Act, means the time during which such person--(a) in attached to, or forms part of, a force which is engaged in operations against an enemy, or (b) is engaged in air force operations in, or is on the line of march to, a country or place wholly or partly occupied by an enemy; or (c) is attached to, or forms part of, a force which is in military occupation of any foreign country. [Air Force Act, 1950 (45 of 1950), s. 4 (i)] See also (5 of 1941), s. 2(a); (46 of 1950), s. 3(a)...
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