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generic drug

A medication sold under its generic name usually legal only after the patent has expired or if no patent was issued for the substance Generic drugs are usually less expensive than proprietary medications...


Generically

With regard to a genus or an extensive class as an animal generically distinct from another or two animals or plants generically allied...


generic

generic 1 : common or descriptive and not entitled to trademark protection : nonproprietary [the name of a drug] 2 : having a nonproprietary name [ drugs] ...


generic term

generic term Terms that the relevant purchasing public understands primarily as the common or class name for the goods or services. These terms are incapable of functioning as trademarks denoting source, and are not registrable. Examples include: "Classes Online" for classes provided via the Internet, "Pizza.com" for pizza ordering and delivery services, and "Live Plants" for plant nurseries. Source: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ...


Planning

Planning, as that term is used in connection with community development is a generic term, rather than a word of art, and has no fixed meaning. Broadly speaking, however, the term connotes the systematic development of a community or an area with particular reference to the location, character, and extent of streets, squares, and parks, and to kindred mapping and charting, American Jurisprudence, 2nd (Vol. 82, at p. 388).Planning, connotes a systematic development contrived to promote the common interest in matters, embraced within the police power, with particular reference to the localities, character, and extent of streets, squares, parks, and to kindred mapping and charting, Manaklal Chottebai v. M.G. Makwana, (1968) 1 SCJ 379.Laws dealing with development planning are indis-pensable to sanitation and healthy urbanization. Development planning comprehensively takes care of statutory, manual, administrative and land-use laws hand in hand with architectural creativity. In the words o...


Tax and fee

Tax and fee, it is true that between a tax and a fee there is no generic difference. Both are compulsory exactions of money by public authorities; but whereas a tax is imposed for public purposes and is not, and need not, be supported by any considera-tion of service rendered in return, a fee is levied essentially for services rendered and as such there is an element of quid pro quo between the person who pays the fee and the public authority which imposes it, Hingir Rampur Coal Co. Ltd. v. State of Orissa, AIR 1961 SC 459 (464): (1961) 2 SCR 537.It is now well recognised that there is not generic difference between a tax in and a fee; both are compulsory exaction of money by public authority, Union of India v. R.C. Jain, AIR 1981 SC 951: (1981) 2 SCC 308: (1981) 2 SCR 854.The chief purpose of a tax is to raise funds for the support of the Government or for a public purpose, while a fee may be charged for the privilege or benefit conferred, or service rendered or to meet the expenses c...


Right

Right [fr. recht, Teut.; rectus, Lat. The application of the same word to denote a staight line and moral rectitude of conduct, has obtained in every language I know, Dugald teward], in its primitive sense, that which the law directs; in popular acceptation, that which is so directed for the protection and advantage of an individual is said to be his right, 1 Stark. Evid. 1, n. (b). It has been described as a liberty of doing or possessing something consistently with law, or more strictly, the liberty of the doing or possessing something for the infringement of which there is a legal sanction. It is often confused in the popular mind with licence of the doing of something which his not prohibited by law, however damaging the act may be to individuals or the community. See MALUM IN SE.A 'right' is a legally protected interest, Mithilesh Kumari v. Prem Behari Khare, AIR 1989 SC 1247 (1255): (1989) 2 SCC 95: (1989) 1 SCR 621.A 'right' is an averment of entitlement arising out of legal rul...


Occupation

Occupation, also is employed as referring to that which occupies time and attention; a calling; or a trade; and it is only as employed in this sense that the word is discussed in the following paragraphs.There is nothing ambiguous about the word 'occupation' as it is used in the sense of employing one's time. It is a relative term, in common use with a well-understood meaning, and very broad in its scope and significance. It is described as a generic and very comprehensive term, which includes every species of the genus, and encompasses the incidental, as well as the main, requirements of one's vocation calling, or business. The word 'occupation' is variously defined as meaning the principal business of one's life; the principal or usual business in which a man engages; that which principally takes up one's time, thought, and energies; that which occupies or engages the time and attention; that particular business, profession, trade, or calling which engages the time and efforts of an ...


Loss or injury

Loss or injury, 'Loss' is a generic term. It signifies some detriment or deprivation or damage. Injury too means any damages or wrong. It means 'invasion of any legally protected interest of another', Consumer Unity & Trust Society v. Chairman & Managing Director, Bank of Baroda, (1995) 2 SCC 150 (153)....


Lunatie

Lunatie, in its generic meaning includes every kind of unsoundness of mind except idiocy, Tiruamogal v. Ramswami, (1863) 1 MHCR 214....


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