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F.G.A

F.G.A., these letters in connection with marine insurance mean 'free from general average.' They sometimes mean 'foreign general average,' and the precise meaning they denote must be gathered from; the context. See AVERAGE (2)....


Closure

Closure. See CLOTURE. Means the permanent closing down of a place of employment or part thereof. [The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of 1947), s. 2 (cc)]Closure, in the House of Commons a member may rise in his place and move 'That the question be now put'. That question must be put forthwith, without amendment or debate, unless it appears to the chair that the motion is an abuse of the Rules of the House or an infringement of the rights of minority, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 407.Means closing, closed condition, Concise Oxford Dictionary, H.W. Fowler & F.G. Fowler, p. 226.In Indian Parliament in order to bring a debate to a close, a member may rise and move 'That the question be now put'. The acceptance of a closure motion lies within the sole discretion of the Speaker. Before he accepts it, he considers whether the question before the House has received adequate debate or not, whether or not the views of opposition have been adequately expressed befor...


Citizen

Citizen, in relation to a country specified in the first Schedule, means a person who under the citizenship or nationality law for the time being in force in that country, is a citizen or national of that country. [Citizenship Act, 1955 (57 of 1955), s. 2 (1) (b)]Citizen, the citizenship of a person can be terminated under the relevant law, [Citizenship Act, 1955, s. 9]Is a person who is either born within the State or born of parents who are citizens or one who has acquired the status of citizen by application of the laws of the State providing for the naturalization of persons born in another State, Dictionary of Political Science, Joseph Dunner, 1965, p. 95.The modes of acquisition of Indian citizenship are (a) Birth, (b) Descent, (c) Registration, (d) Naturalisation, (e) Incorporation of territory, and (f) Certificate in case of doubt, Commentary on Constitution of India, Durga Das Basu, 6th Edn., Vol. 1, p. 111.Is a member, native or naturalised, of a State, the Concise Oxford Dic...


Landlord and tenant

Landlord and tenant. A tenancy arises when the owner of an estate inland, called the lessor or landlord, agrees expressly or by implication to allow another person, called the lessee or tenant, to enjoy the exclusive possession and use of the land for a period less than the landlord's estate in it, generally upon payment of rent. The landlord's estate is called the reversion, and at common law, a power of distress for rent is incident to the reversion.Leases or tenancies may be (1) for any agreed period such as for years or less, e.g., for a year, half-year, quarter or week; (2) from year to year; (3) at will; (4) on sufferance; or (5) they may arise upon estoppel; or (6) exist by force of a statute (see LEASE; INCREASE OF RENT). In a narrower sense the words 'tenancy' and 'landlord and tenant' are generally restricted to lease of a house or land for occupational purposes. If nothing appears to the contrary, either expressly or by implication, in the lease or agreement, the landlord is...


Ob

A prefix signifying to toward before against reversely etc also as a simple intensive as in oblige to bind to obstacle something standing before object lit to throw against obovate reversely or oppositely ovate Ob is commonly assimilated before c f g and p to oc of og and op...


Direct loss and or expense

Direct loss and or expense, in JCT forms means that which arises naturally and in the ordinary course of things, F.G. Minter Ltd. v. Welsh Health Technical Services Organisation, (1980) 13 BLR I, CA....


Guillotine

Guillotine, is an instrument for beheading, Webster's American Dictionary, p. 849.Is a method of preventing obstruction by fixing times at which parts of Bill must be voted on, The Concise Oxford Dictionary, H.W. Fowler and F.G. Fowler, p. 548.Is the most drastic method of curtailing debate in a legislature, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 410.In the House of commons, guillotine can be applied only after passing a motion for the purpose in the House. It is applied to the various stages of Bills and in designed to expedite their passage by means of a time table allotting a certain number of days to the different stages of the Bill and at the end of the allotted time the question under consideration is put without any further debate, The Office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth, Wilding and Philips Laundry, p. 335.Which is a colloquial term, is technically known as 'allocation of time orders', Parliamentary Dictionary, L.A. Abraham and SC. Hawtrey...


b.f.o.q.

b.f.o.q. Short for the phrase "bona fide occupational qualification," in the employment discrimination context a B.F.O.Q. may absolve an employer from liability for discrimination when there is a legitimate reason to require, for example, that all of the employees working a particular job be of the same sex or age. The successful use of a B.F.O.Q. defense by an employer is rare in discrimination cases. ...


C.I.F

C.I.F.--'Cost, insurance, and freight.' Sometimes written C.F.I. These letters in a mercantile contract denote that the price named includes the price of the goods (cost), their insurance during transit to the purchaser, and the carriage (freight). As to obligations of parties to a C.I.F. contract, see Biddell Bros. v. Clemens Horst, 1911 (1) KB 952; 1912 AC 18; Manbre Saccharine Co. v. Corn Products, 1919 (1) KB 198; Wilson Holgate v. Belgian Grain Co., 1920 (2) KB 1....


F

F is the sixth letter of the English alphabet and a nonvocal consonant Its form and sound are from the Latin The Latin borrowed the form from the Greek digamma unr which probably had the value of English w consonant The form and value of Greek letter came from the Phoelignician the ultimate source being probably Egyptian Etymologically f is most closely related to p k v and b as in E five Gr pente E wolf L lupus Gr lykos E fox vixen fragile break fruit brook v t E bear L ferre See Guide to Pronunciation sectsect 178 179 188 198 230...


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