Hall Mark - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: hall markHall-marking of Foreign Plate Act, 1904
Hall-marking of Foreign Plate Act, 1904 (4 Edw. 7, c. 6). See PLATE, and Chitty's Statutes...
Plate
Plate, of gold and silver. The duties were repealed by the (English) Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1890, s. 10. The hall-marking of foreign plate is prescribed by ss. 59, 60 of the (English) Customs Act, 1842, as amended by the Hall-marking of Foreign Plate Act, 1904 (4 Edw. 7, c. 6), which directs that foreign plate when brought to be assayed and stamped, as it has to be by revenue law, must be marked so as to distinguish it as foreign, and that every person bringing it to an assay office, unless it be in charge of a revenue officer, must state in writing whether it was bought in England, Scotland, or Ireland, or was imported from foreign parts. Watch-cases imported from foreign parts before 1st June, 1907, are exempted from assay by the Assay of Imported Watch-Cases (Existing Stocks Exemption) Act, 1907. As to the meaning of 'plate' in ss. 2, 6 of the Plate (Offences) Act, 1738, and other statutes, see Faberge v. Goldsmiths' Co., (1911) 1 Ch 286. Gold watches which are jewelled and...
Dancing hall
Dancing hall, 'dancing hall' as understood in the ordinary parlance is a place where dancing floor is provided and live orchestra or music in any other form is played to entertain the guests who wish to come on the floor and dance. Dancing halls are peculiar to the Western social life. In the cosmopolitan cities in this country, even today, one finds number of dancing halls and discotheques where people go in the evenings and entertain themselves. There seems to be no difference in a 'dancing hall' and a 'restaurant' where a proper dancing floor is provided and the guests entertain themselves by using the floor to the tune of live or recorded music. Simply because the recreation in the shape of dancing is provided along with a posheating place would not make it different than a 'dancing hall' where drinks and eatables are also invariably provided, Calcutta Municipal Corporation v. East India Hotels, AIR 1995 SC 419 (423): (1994) 5 SCC 690. [Calcutta Municipal Act, 1951 (33 of 1951), s....
Hall mark
The official stamp of the Goldsmiths Company and other assay offices in the United Kingdom on gold and silver articles attesting their purity...
Moot-hall, or Moot-house
Moot-hall, or Moot-house, council-chamber, hall of judgment, town-hall....
Stationers' hall
Stationers' hall. The (repealed) Copyright Act, 1842, authorized, in every case of copyright, the registra-tion of the title of the proprietor at Stationers' Hall, and provided that, without previous registration, no action should be commenced, though an omission to register did not otherwise affect the copyright itself. It was founded A.D. 1553.002 Hall. Hist. Lit., pt. 2, c. 8, p. 366. This registration is now unnecessary; see (English) Copyright Act, 1911...
Trade marks
Trade marks. by the Trade Marks Act, 1905 (English) (5 Edw. 7, c. 15), s. 3:-A 'mark' shall include a device, brand, heading, label, ticket, name, signature, word, letter, numeral or any combination thereof.A 'trade mark' shall mean a mark used or proposed to be used upon or in connexion with goods for the purpose of indicating that they are the goods of the proprietor of such trademark by virtue of manufacture, selection, certification, dealing with, or offering for sale.A 'registrable trademark' shall mean a trade mark which is capable of registration under the pro-visions of this Act.Subject to the Trade Mark Acts, the owner of a trademark has a right to its use in connection with the goods associated with it, whether or not it is registered or registrable by him, and if that right is infringed by a sale of other goods under his mark, or a colourable imitation or otherwise so as to be calculated to deceive a purchaser that those goods are goods of his manufacture, sale or mark, the ...
Trade mark and property mark
Trade mark and property mark, the concept of trade mark is distinct from that of a property mark. A mark, as defined by s. 2(1)(j) of the Trade and Merchandise Marks Act, 1958, includes a device, brand, heading, label, ticket, name, signature, world, letter or numerical or any combination thereof. A trade mark means a mark used in relation to goods for the purpose of indicating or so as to indicate a connection in the course of trade between the goods and some person having the right as proprietor to use that mark. The function of a trade mark is to give an indication to the purchaser or a possible purchaser as to the manufacture or quality of the goods, to give an indication to his eye of the trade source from which the goods come, or the trade hands through which they pass on their way to the market. On the other hand, a property mark, as defined by s. 479 of the Penal Code means a mark used for denoting that a movable property belongs to a particular person. Thus, the distinction be...
Moot hall
A hall for public meetings a hall of judgment...
Hall
Hall, s. 2(k) 'Hall' means a unit of residence or of corporate life for the students of the University, or of a college or of an Institution, maintained by the University, Tezpur University Act, 1993 (45 of 1993).Means a unit of residence or of corporate life for the students of the University, or of a College or of an Institution, maintained by the university. Mizoram University Act, 2000 (8 of 2000), s. 2(k).Means a unit of residence or of corporate life for the students of the University, of a College or of an Institution maintained by the University. Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University Act, 1994 (58 of 1994), s. 2(k)....
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