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Home Dictionary Name: equationEquate
To make equal to reduce to an average to make such an allowance or correction in as will reduce to a common standard of comparison to reduce to mean time or motion as to equate payments to equate lines of railroad for grades or curves equated distances...
magnetic equator
An imaginary line paralleling the equator where a magnetic needle has no dip the dipping needle being horizontal called also aclinic line...
Climate
One of thirty regions or zones parallel to the equator into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided according to the successive increase of the length of the midsummer day...
Colure
One of two great circles intersecting at right angles in the poles of the equator One of them passes through the equinoctial points and hence is denominated the equinoctial colure the other intersects the equator at the distance of 90deg from the former and is called the solstitial colure...
Broken rice
Broken rice, it includes 'broken rice as part of rice'. But, to hold that this meant that 'broken rice' must include whole rice is to accept that part includes the whole. If the whole includes a part, it necessarily means that the part cannot possibly be equated with the whole. The natural, and, indeed, the only reasonably open logic would be: if the whole includes a part, nothing which is merely a part of the whole could be equated with the whole, State of Andhra Pradesh v. Bathu Prakasa Rao, (1976) 3 SCC 301 (307): AIR 1976 SC 1845: 1976 Supp SCR 608....
Counter-claim
Counter-claim, the word 'counter-claim' in s. 19(8) to (11) which is equated to a cross-suit, includes a claim if it is made in an independent suit filed earlier, Union of India, v. Abhijit Tea Co. (P.) Ltd., (2000) 7 SCC 357: AIR 2000 SC 2957 (2965). [Recovery of Debts due to Bank and Financial Institutions Act, 1993, s. 19(8) to (ii)]By (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XIX., r. 3, under the (English) Judciature Act, 1873, s. 24 (3); replaced by the (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 39 (1) (a), subject to the provisions of Rule 15, Order XXI, (exclusion of counter-claim), a defendant in an action may set off, or set up by way of counterclaim, against the claims of the plaintiff, any right or claim, whether such set-off or counter-claim sound in damages or not, and such set-off or counterclaim shall have the same effect as across action, so as to enable the Court to pronounce a final judgment in the same action, both on the original and on the cross claim. (As amended by (English) R.S.C. N...
Lawful possession
Lawful possession, is not litigious possession and must have some foundation in a legal right to possess the property which cannot be equated with a temporary right to enforce recovery of the property in case a person is wrongfully or forcibly dispossessed from it. Juridical possession is possession protected by law against wrongful dispossession but cannot perse always be equated with lawful possession, M.C. Chockalingam v. V. Manickavasagam, AIR 1974 SC 104 (110): (1974) 1 SCC 48: (1974) 2 SCR 143. [T.N. Cinemas (Regulation) Rules, 1957, R. 13]The term 'lawful possession' as defined in the Law Lexicon, Reprint Edition, 1987, by P. Ramanatha Aiyar at p. 712 as: The term 'lawful possession' is not convertible with 'innocent possession' in legal terminology. Intent does not enter into whether an act is unlawful or tortuous, though it does as to whether it is innocent or criminal. To establish 'lawful possession'.It is absolutely necessary for a party to prove with the documents which ca...
Public order
Public order, expression 'public order' has a distinct corrodation. Investigation into the offence under the Essential Commodities Act, may not be equated with the maintenance of public order as is commonly understood, Romesh Lal Jain v. Naginder Singh Rana, (2006) 1 SCC 294.Public order, has a comprehensive meaning so as to include public safety in its relation to the maintenance of public order and maintenance of public order involves consideration of public safety. They are closely allied concepts, Revana Siddaiah v. State of Mysore, AIR 1952 Mys 85: (1951) ILR Mys 455: (1952) Cr LJ 1526.Public order, has a very wide connotation public order is the basic need in any organized society. It implies the orderly State of Society and Community in which citizens can peacefully pursue their normal activities of life, Kamlakar Shankar Patil v. B. Akashi, (1994) Cr LJ 1870.Public order, has in several decisions, been equated with public safety and tranquility. Each and every breach of tranqui...
doldrums
A part of the ocean near the equator abounding in calms squalls and light baffling winds which sometimes prevent all progress for weeks so called by sailors...
Eliminant
The result of eliminating n variables between n homogeneous equations of any degree called also resultant...
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