Engaging

Tending to draw the attention or affections attractive as engaging manners or address...

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...

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....

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...

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)]...

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...

prostitution

prostitution : the act or practice of engaging in sexual activity indiscriminately esp. for money ;also : the crime of engaging in such activity ...

sexual abuse

sexual abuse 1 a : the infliction of sexual contact upon a person by forcible compulsion b : the engaging in sexual contact with a person who is below a specified age or who is incapable of giving consent because of age or mental or physical incapacity 2 : the crime of engaging in or inflicting sexual abuse ...

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