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Flameproof enclosure

Flameproof enclosure, means an enclosure for electrical machinery or apparatus that will withstand, when the covers or other access doors are properly secured, an internal explosion of the inflammable gas or vapour which may enter or originate inside the enclosure, without suffering damage and without communicating the internal flammation (or explosion) to the external inflammable gas or vapour in which it is designed to be used, through any joints or other structural openings in the closure. [Indian Electricity Rules, 1956, R. 2 (1) (uu)]...

Common gambling house

Common gambling house, according to the defini-tion means: 'any house' walled enclosure, room or place in which cards, dice, tables or other instruments of gaming are kept or used for the profit or gain of the person owning, occupying, using or keeping such house, enclosure; room or place, whether by way of charge for the use of the instruments of gaming, or of the house enclosure, room or place, or otherwise howsoever. Explana-tion. The wore 'house' includes a tent and all enclosed space', State of Andhra Pradesh v. K. Satyanarayana, AIR 1968 SC 825: (1968) 2 SCR 387. [Hyderabad Gambling Act, 1305F, (2 of 1305F)]...

Dangerous place

Dangerous place. S. 30 of the (English) Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 53), provides as follows:-30. With respect of the repairing or enclosing of dangerous places the following provisions shall have effect (namely):-(1) If in any situation fronting, adjoining, or abutting on any street or public footpath, any building, wall, fence, steps, structure or other thing, or any well, excavation, reservoir, pond, stream, dam or bank is, for want of sufficient repair, protection, or enclosure, dangerous to the persons lawfully using the street or footpath, the local authority may, by notice in writing served upon the owner, require him, within the period specified in the notice and hereinafter in this s. referred to as the 'prescribed period,' to repair, remove, protect, or enclose the same so as to prevent any danger therefrom:(2) If, after service of the notice on the owner, he shall neglect to comply with the requirements thereof within the prescribed period, the local...

Warehouse

Warehouse, in common parlance, certainly means a place where a man stores or keeps his goods which are not immediately wanted for sale, Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, 3rd Edn. See also Goa Urban Co-op. Bank Ltd. v. Noor Mohd. Shikh Mussa, (2004) 6 SCC 166.Warehouse, is properly speaking a building used for the purpose of storing goods imported at a reasonable rent, Law Lexicon of British India, 1940 Edn. See also Goa Urban Co-op. Bank Ltd. v. Noor Mohd. Sheikh Mussa, (2004) 6 SCC 166.Means a building where wares or goods are stored, as before being distributed to retailers, a store-house, Webster's New Twentieth Century Diction-ary, Vol. II, 2nd End. See also Goa Urban Co-op Bank Ltd. v. Noor Mohd. Sheikh Mussa, AIR (2004) 6 SC 166.Means a property, Law Lexicon of British India, 1940 Edn.Means a public warehouse appointed under s. 57 or a private warehouse licensed under s. 58. [Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), s. 2 (43)]A building used to store goods and other items, Black's Law Diction...

flameproof

not susceptible to burning noncombustible fireproof of artifacts Opposite of combustible...

purpresture

purpresture [Anglo-French, alteration of Old French porpresure, from porprendre to seize, occupy, enclose, from por- for + prendre to take, from Latin prehendere] : wrongful appropriation of land subject to the rights of others : an encroachment upon or enclosure of real property (as highways, sidewalks, or harbors) subject to common or public rights ...

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