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good samaritan [from the good Samaritan in the New Testament parable (Luke 10:30-37)] : one who voluntarily renders aid to another in distress although under no duty to do so ...
good
good bet·ter best 1 : commercially sound or reliable [a risk] 2 a : valid or effectual under the law b : free of defects 3 a : characterized by honesty and fairness b : conforming to a standard of virtue [shall hold their offices during behavior "U.S. Constitution art. III"] ;also : characterized by or relating to good behavior n 1 : advancement of prosperity and well-being [for the of the community] 2 : an item of tangible movable personal property having value but usually excluding money, securities, and negotiable instruments usually used in pl. : as a pl : all things under section 2-105 of the Uniform Commercial Code that are movable at the time of identification to the contract for sale other than the money that is to be paid, investment securities, and choses in action b pl : all things under section 9-104 of the Uniform Commercial Code that are movable at the time that a security interest in them attaches or that are fixtures but excluding money, documents,...
Producers goods
Goods that satisfy wants only indirectly as factors in the production of other goods such as tools and raw material called also instrumental goods auxiliary goods intermediate goods or goods of the second and higher orders and disting from consumers goods...
Capital goods
Capital goods, include all types of properties including consumable raw material, components etc. Capital goods become capital goods when used in the manufacture of products. Every Capital asset is not capital good, C.C.E. v. Ginni Filaments Ltd., (2005) 3 SCC 378 (388).Means plant, mechiners and equipment used in trade or manufacturing of goods, [Manipur University Act, 2005, s. 2(e)]Is very wide. Capital goods can be machines, machinery, plant, equipment, apparatus, tools or appliances, Commissioner of Central Excise, Coimbatore v. Jawahar Mills Ltd., (2001) 6 SCC 274.Means--(a) machines, machinery, plant, equipment, apparatus, tools or appliances used for producing or processing of any goods or for bringing about any changes in any substance for the manufacture of final products;(b) components, spare parts and accessories of the aforesaid machines, machinery, plaint, equipment, apparatus, tools or appliances used for aforesaid purpose; and(c) moulds and dies, generating sets and wei...
Dangerous goods
Dangerous goods, Act as to the carriage and deposit of, 29 & 30 Vict. c. 39, repealed by the Explosives Act, 1875. See EXPLOSIVE SUBSTANCES; Bamfield v. Goole Transport Co., (1910) 2 KB 94; and Dominion Natural Gas Co. v. Collins,1909 AC 640. As to the sale of dangerous goods, see Clarke v. Army & Navy Co-operative Soc., (1903) 1 KB 155.In Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (s. 446) 'Dangerous goods', is defined to mean 'acqua fortis, vitriol, naphta, benzine, gunpowder, lucifer matches, nitroglycerine, petroleum, any explosives within the meaning of the Explosives Act, 1875, and any other goods which are of a dangerous nature.Means any article or substance which is capable of posing significant risk to health, safety or property when carried by air, Air Navigation (Dangerous Goods) Regulation, 1985, SI 1985/1939, reg. 3(1) (UK), Halsbury's Laws of England (2), para 1654, p. 810.Means goods designated as dangerous goods by safety regulations under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1995, s. 87(5) (UK...
Restitution of stolen goods
Restitution of stolen goods. By the Common Law there was no restitution of goods upon an indictment, because it is at the suit of the Crown only; therefore the party was enforced to bring an appeal of robbery in order to have his goods again; but a writ of restitution was authorized to be granted by 21 Hen. 8, c. 11, and it became the practice of the court, upon the conviction of a felon, to order, without any writ, immediate restitution of such goods as were brought into Court to be made to the several prosecutors. The Larceny Act, 1916, s. 45, gives power to the court to award from time to time writs of restitution for stolen property, or to order the restitution thereof in a summary manner, upon a conviction of the guilty party. This restitution reaches the stolen goods (unless they be negotiable instruments) notwithstanding that the guilty party may have sold them for value to an innocent purchaser [see s. 24 (1), Sale of Goods Act, 1893], but see MARKET OVERT; a sum not exceeding ...
Stolen goods
Stolen goods. As to restitution, see (English) Larceny Act, 1916 (6 & 7 Geo. 5, c. 50), s. 45, and Arch Cr. Pr., 1934, pp. 293 et seq.Where goods have been stolen and the offender is prosecuted to conviction, the property in the goods so stolen revests in the person who was the owner of the goods or his personal representative, notwithstanding any intermediate dealing with them, whether by selling in market overt (see that title) or otherwise; but if obtained by fraud, etc., not amounting to larceny, aliter, Sale of Goods Act, 1893, s. 24. S. 102, Larceny Act, 1861, prohibits advertising a reward for the return of any property either lost or stolen and intimating that no questions will be asked without apprehension of the person returning the property, under a penalty of 50l.As to the crime of 'receiving' goods knowing them to have been stolen, see RECEIVER OF STOLEN PROPERTY....
With respect to such goods
With respect to such goods, the expression 'with respect of such goods'had obviously to be used at the end of the s. because the second and third parts of the s. start with the words 'if any person is in relation to any goods...... knowingly concerned in any fraudulent evasion or attempt at evasion'. The words 'such goods' have clearly reference to 'any goods' at the commencement of the s. These words are not descriptive of the kind of goods to which the first part of the s. is applicable, Assistant Collector of Customs (Prevention) v. Babu Miya Sheikh Imam, AIR 1983 SC 974: (1983) 3 SCR 500: (1983) 3 SCC 447. [Customs Act, 1962, s. 135 (i)(a) (ii)]...
Perished goods
Perished goods. 'Where there is a contract for the sale of specific goods and the goods without the knowledge of the seller have perished at the time when the contract is made, the contract is void,' and 'where there is an agreement to sell specific goods and subsequently the goods, without any fault on the part of the seller or buyer, perish before the risk passes to the buyer, the agreement is thereby avoided.'-Sale of Goods Act, 1893, ss. 6, 7. See IMPOSSIBILITY....
Dutiable goods
Dutiable goods, 'dutiable goods' means any goods which are chargeable to duty and on which duty has not been paid. [Customs Act, 1962, s. 2(14)]--means the medicinal and toilet preparations specified in the Schedule as being subject to the duties of excise levied under this Act. [Medicinal and Toilet Preparations (Excise Duties) Act, 1955 (16 of 1955), s. 2 (c)]Dutiable goods, only if payment of duty is out-standing or leviable that goods will be regarded as dutiable goods, Associated Cement Companies Ltd. v. Commr. of Customs, (2001) 4 SCC 593...
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