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Graduated flat rate, The water rate imposed on houses where there is no water connection is known as 'graduated flat rate', Indore Municipal Corporation v. Gujarat Coop Housing Society Ltd., 1992 Supp (2) SCC 457: AIR 1992 SC 1506. [M.P. Municipal Corporation Act, 1956 (23 of 1956),ss. 132(1)(d) and 162]...
Premises
Premises (pr'missa), in logic, propositions antecedently supposed or proved. In a deed the 'premises' are all the parts preceding the habendum. The word properly applies to what has been previously described or mentioned, and is used only in that sense in well-drawn instruments (Dav. Prec. in Conveyancing, vol. i.). It is, however, often used as meaning land or houses.For the statutory meaning, see particular statutes, e.g., (English) Public Health Act, 1875, s. 4, where 'premises' includes messuages, buildings, lands, easements, tenements and hereditaments of any tenure.Include any shop, stall, or place where any article of good is sold or manufactured or stored for sale. [Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 (37 of 1954), s. 2 (xi)]Means any land or any building or part of a building and includes-The garden, grounds and outhouses, if any, appertaining to such building or part of a building, andAny fittings affixed to such building or part of a building for the more beneficial en...
flat
flat : not varying [a rate] ;specif of a tax : having a rate that remains constant for any taxable base adv : without interest charge ;esp : without allowance or charge for accrued interest [bonds sold ] ...
graduated
graduated of a tax : increasing in rate with increase in taxable base : progressive ...
scale
scale : a set of graduated wage rates ;also : a wage consistent with such rates compare minimum wage ...
Post-graduate degree
Post-graduate degree, by 'post-graduate degree' is meant a Master's degree like the M.A. or M.Sc. and not a Bachelor's degree like the B.T. In other words, the expression connotes the successful completion of a course of studies at a higher level in any speciality, after the acquisition of a basic qualification at the graduate level. The B.T. course of studies, is open only to graduates and in a dictionary manner of speaking, the degree of 'Bachelor of Teaching' may be said to be a 'post' graduate degree in the same that the degree is obtainable only 'after graduation', Juthika Bhattacharya v. State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1976 SC 2534 (2536): (1976) 4 SCC 96.Post-graduate degree, has acquired, in the educatio-nal world, a special significance, a technical content. A Bachelor's degree like the B.T., or the LL.B. is not considered to be a postgraduate degree even though those degrees can be taken only after post-graduate. In the refined and elegant world of education, it is the holder of...
Post-graduate training
Post-graduate training, the expression 'post-gradu-ate training' is used in Rule 49(c) in the sense of training received by a person holding a degree in medicine or science and not in the sense that such training ought to be received in or through a post-graduate institution imparting instruction or education in the particular discipline. The object of Clause (c) is to ensure that to be eligible for the post of a Drugs Inspector the person concerned must have received training under any of the authorities mentioned therein after graduation in medicine or science. Pre-graduation training is often not as efficacious as post-graduate training, for a person holding a higher educational qualification is in a better position to imbibe the training which he received, Maheshwar Prasad Srivastava v. Suresh Singh, AIR 1976 SC 1014 (1406): (1977) 1 SCC 627. [Drugs and Cosmetic Rules, 1945, Rules 49(c) and 44(a)]...
Flat
Flat. A set of rooms on one floor of a house usually let unfurnished in many separate flats, which for all legal purposes are separate houses. For the purposes of the Housing Act, 1936, defined as a separate and self-contained set of premises constructed for use for the purposes of a dwelling and forming part of a building from some other part of which it is divided horizontally, and 'block of flats,' a building which contains two or more flats and consists of three or more storeys exclusive of any storey which is constructed for use for purposes other than those of a dwelling. See Blackwell on the Law of Residential Flats; Woodfall, L. and T., and Forms in Appendix B. of that work.adj. without an allowance or charge for accused interest, Black's Law Dictionary, p. 652.A house in a larger block; an apartment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 652.Flat, means a separate set of premises forming part of a building being a set of premises occupied wholly or mainly as a private dwelling,...
Rate
Rate, A contribution levied by some public body for a public purpose, as a poor rate, a highway rate, a sewers rate, upon, as a general rule, the occupiers of property within a parish or other area.Proportional or relative value; the proportion of which quantity or value is adjusted, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1268.The term 'rate' is also used to mean a charge by a water, gas, railway, or other public undertaking for services rendered e.g., (English) Railways Act, 1921, s. 20; Metropolitan Water Board Charges Act, 1921 (11 & 12 Geo. 5, c. xciv.).The poor rate was levied under the (English) Poor Relief Act, 1601 (43 Eliz. s. 2), on the occupiers in each parish of 'lands, houses, tithes, coal mines, or saleable underwoods,' and the (English) Rating Act, 1874, extended the liability to rates to: (1) land used for a plantation or a wood, or for the growth of saleable underwood, and not subject to any right of common; (2) rights of fowling, shooting, taking, or killing game, or ra...
graduated payment mortgages
graduated payment mortgages mortgages that begin with lower monthly payments that get slowly larger over a period of years, eventually reaching a fixed level and remaining there for the life of the loan. Graduated payment loans may be good if you expect your annual income to increase. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
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