Fractionation - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: fractionationFractional
Of or pertaining to fractions or a fraction constituting a fraction as fractional numbers...
Fractionally
By fractions or separate portions as to distill a liquid fractionally that is so as to separate different portions...
Lex non patitur fractiones et divisiones statutorum
Lex non patitur fractiones et divisiones statutorum [Lat.], the law suffers no fractions and divisions of statutes....
Fractionate
To separate a mixture of chemical substances into different portions or fractions as in the distillation of liquids...
fractionation
the act or process of separating a mixture into portions of different composition as in distillation or fractional crystallization...
Fraction of a day
Fraction of a day, the law does not recognize, except in cass of necessity and for the purposes of justice, see Clarke v. Bradlaugh, (1881) 8 QBD 63; when, therefore, a thing's to be done upon a certain day, all that day is allowed to do it in, Gelmini v. Moriggia, (1913) 2 KB 552. An Act of Parliament becomes law as soon as the day on which it is passed commences, Tomlinson v. Bulock, (1879) 4 QBD 230, unless the commencement be expressly postponed; and every minor comes of age on the day proceeding the twenty-first anniversary of his birthday, and may act as of full age the first moment of that day....
Pawnbroker
Pawnbroker, contemplates that every person who keeps a shop for the purchase or sale of goods or chattels and who purchases goods or chattels and pays or advances thereon any sum of money, with or under an agreement or understanding expressed or implied that the goods or chattel may be afterwards repurchased on any terms, is a 'pawnbroker', Karnataka Pawnbrokers' Assn. v. State of Karnataka, (1998) 7 SCC 707.One who lends money on goods which he receives upon pledge.The rate of interest which pawnbrokers may take has been fixed by law since 1800, by 39 & 40 Geo. 3, c. 48, which Act placed their whole business under various other restrictions. By the (English) Pawn-brokers Act, 1872 (which applies to Scotland, but not to Ireland), this Act, together with its amending Acts, is repealed, and the statute law of the subject consolidated. Sch. IV., dealing with profits and charges, has been amended by the (English) Pawnbrokers Act, 1922, in respect of loans not exceeding 40s.By s. 5 of the A...
Prize amount
Prize amount, means the difference between the chit amount and the discount, and in the case of a fraction of a ticket means the difference between the chit amount and the discount proportionate to the fraction of the ticket, and when the prize amount is payable otherwise than in cash, the value of the prize amount shall be the value at the time when it becomes payable. [Chit Funds Act, 1982 (40 of 1982), s. 2(m)]...
Workmen
Workmen, if a person is mainly doing supervisory work, but, incidentally or for a fraction of the time, also does some clerical work, it would have to be held that he is employed in supervisory capacity; and, conversely, if the main work done is of clerical nature, the mere fact that some supervisory duties are also carried out incidentally or as a small fraction of the work done by him will not convert his employment as a clerk into one in supervisory capacity, Ananda Bazar Patrika (P) Ltd. v. The Workmen, (1970) 3 SCC 248.Those earning their livelihood by manual labour.Workmen's Dwellings.-See HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES.As to facilities for small dwellings not exceeding a rateable value of 100l. a year see (English) Settled land Act, 1925, ss. 57, 107 and 117. See LABOURERS' DWELLINGS.Workmen (Unemployed).-The Local Government Act, 1929 (19 Geo.5, c. 17), s. 12, repealed the Unemployed Workmen Act, 1905, which established distress committees, whose functions were to ascertain con...
aliquot
aliquot [Medieval Latin aliquotus contained an exact number of times in something else, from Latin aliquot some, several] : of, relating to, or being a fraction or percentage of a whole [may deduct an part of the cost "D. Q. Posin"] ...
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