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Fish farming, means the breeding or rearing of fish or the cultivation of shellfish (including crustaceans and molluscs of any description) for the purpose of producing food for human consumption or for transfer to other waters, but does not include the breedings, rearing or cultivation of any fish or shellfish which are purely ornamental, or which are bred, reared or cultivated for exhibition, General Rate Act, 1967, s. 26A (4). See also Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 39, para 67, p. 58....
Domestic animals, livestock
Domestic animals, livestock, livestock means domestic animals especially horses, cattle, sheep and pigs (See Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary, p. 737). Historically these animals are associated with agriculture as they either help in carrying out agricultural operations or they are domestically maintained in agricultural fields because they can feed on products or by products of agriculture in its narrow sense. Fishes are not domestic animals and are not included within the meaning of the term 'livestock', Maheshwari Fish Farm v. T.N. Electricity Board, (2004) 4 SCC 705: AIR 2004 SC 2341 (2345)....
Farming
Pertaining to agriculture devoted to adapted to or engaged in farming as farming tools farming land a farming community...
Farm let
Farm let, to let to be farmed: the full phrase is 'demise, sett, and to farm let.'...
Fee-farm rent
Fee-farm rent, where an estate in fee is granted in perpetuity, subject to a rent in fee for so much as it is reasonably worth, not being less than one-fourth of the value of the lands at the time of its reservation; and such rent appears to be called fee-farm, because a grant of land reserving so considerable a rent is indeed only letting lands to farm in fee-simple, instead of the usual method of life or years, Steph. Com., 13th Edn. At p. 480. If the rent be in arrear for two years the feoffor or his heirs may have an action to recover the lands as his demesnes. Cowel's Law Dict., citing Britton, cap. 66, num. 4. Formerly it was said that these rents could not be distrained for, but the (English) Landlord and Tenant Act, 1730 (4 Geo. 2, c. 28), s. 5, allowed distress, impounding and sale for the rents if the rents had been paid for three years. for the remedies in case of non-payment of these rents if created after 1881, see s. 121, (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, and for relie...
Farm or ferm
Farm or ferm [fr. firma, Lat.; feorme, Sax., food, and feorman, to feed], land taken upon lease under a rent, generally annual, payable by the tenant. It is a collective word, consisting of many things, as a messuage, land, meadow, pasture, wood, common, etc. In Lancashire a farm was called fermholt; in the north, a tack; and in Essex, a wike, Termes de la Ley....
Fish
Fish, the fish whether in raw form or processed form is known as fish. In Webster's Comprehensive Dictionary one of the meaning of fish is, the flesh of a fish used as food. A fish after cleaning, cutting of head and tail or deshelling remains fish. A person dealing in fish meat is a dealer in fish, Regional Executive, Kerala Fishermen's Welfare Fund Board v. Fancy Food, AIR 1995 SC 1620 (1624): (1995) 4 SCC 341....
Fee Farm rent
Fee Farm rent, is rent reserved upon a grant in fee, Bradbury v. Wright, (1781) 2 Doug KB 624; See also Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 39, para 1206, p. 566....
Bellows fish
A European fish Centriscus scolopax distinguished by a long tubular snout like the pipe of a bellows called also trumpet fish and snipe fish...
Bur fish
A spinose plectognath fish of the Allantic coast of the United States esp Chilo mycterus geometricus having the power of distending its body with water or air so as to resemble a chestnut bur called also ball fish balloon fish and swellfish...
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