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Freedom of speech, Freedom of speech presupposes that right conclusions are more likely to be gathered out of a multitude of tongues than through any kind of authoritative selection. It rests on the assumption that the widest possible dissemination of information from as many diverse and antagonistic sources as possible is essential to the welfare of the public. It is function of the Press to disseminate news from as many different sources and with as many different facts and colours as possible. A citizen is entirely dependent on the Press for the quality, proportion and extent of his news supply. In such a situation, the exclusive and continues advocacy of one point of view through the medium of a newspaper which holds a monopolistic position is not conductive to the formation of healthy public opinion. If the newspaper industry is concentrated in a few hands, the chance of an idea antagonistic to the idea of the owners getting access to the market becomes very remote. But our consti...
Dummy bill
Dummy bill, contains title of the bill and the names of the members supporting it, a member while introducing the bill hands the dummy to the Clerk, Office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth Wilding and Philip Laundry, p. 222...
Entering short
Entering short. When bills not due are paid into a bank by a customer, it is the custom of some bankers not to carry the amount of the bills directly to his credit, but to 'enter them short,' as it is called, i.e., to note down the receipt of the bills, their amounts, and the times when they become due in a previous column of the page, and the amounts when received are carried forward into the usual cash column. See Giles v. Perkins, (1807) 9 East 13. Sometimes, instead of entering such bills short, bankers credit the customer directly with the amount of the bills as cash, charging interest on any advances they may make on their account, and allow him at once to draw upon them to that amount. If the banker becomes bankrupt, the property in bills entered short, and not credited to the customer unless by way of advance, does not pass to his trustee, but the customer is entitled to them if they remain in his hands, or to their proceeds, if received, subject to any lien the banker may have...
High public or political office
High public or political office, the term 'high public or political office' used in the Special Courts Act, 1979 contemplates only a special class of officers or politicians who may be categorised as follows:(1) officials wielding extraordinary powers entitling them to take major policy decisions and holding positions of trust and answerable and accountable for their wrongs;(2) persons responsible for giving to the state a clean, stable and honest administration;(3) persons occupying a very elevated status in whose hands lies the destiny of the nation, State (Delhi Administration) v. V.C. Shukla, AIR 1980 SC 1382 (1411): (1980) Supp SCC 249: (1980) 3 SCR 500. (Special Courts Act, 1979, Preamble)...
Garnishee
Garnishee, a debtor who has been warned to pay his debt not to his own creditor but to some third party who has obtained a final judgment against the creditor. The order thus arresting the debt in the hands of the debtor is called a 'garnishee order.' See (English) R.S.C., Ord. XLV. See ATTACHMENT LESS OF DEBTS; FOREIGN ATTACHMENT.A person or constitution (Such as bank) that is intended to or is bailee for another whose property has been subjected to garnishment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 689....
Gavelwerk
Gavelwerk, the personal labour of customary tenants.Customary service either by tenants own hands or with and of tenants costs or carriage, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 690...
Giving of notice
Giving of notice, 'Giving' of anything as ordinarily understood in the English language is not complete unless it has reached the hands of the person to whom it has to be given. In the eye of law however 'giving' is complete in many matters where it has been offered to a person but not accepted by him. Tendering of a notice is in law therefore giving of a notice even though the person to whom it is tendered refuses to accept it. We can find however no authority or principle for the proposition that as soon as the person with a legal duty to give the notice despatches the notice to the address of the person to whom it has to be given, the giving is complete, K. Narasimhiah v. H.C. Singvi Gowda, AIR 1966 SC 330 (332): (1964) 7 SCR 618. [Mysore Town Municipalities Act, 1951 (22 of 1951), s. 27(3)]...
Hand-held portable apparatus
Hand-held portable apparatus, means an apparatus which is so designed as to be capable of being held in the hands and moved while connected to a supply of electricity. [Indian Electricity Rules, 1956, R. 2 (1) (vv)]...
Hand-sale
Hand-sale, a custom among the northern nations of shaking hands to bind a bargain or contract....
Hindu undivided family
Hindu undivided family, A Hindu undivided family is a fleeting body. Its composition changes by births, deaths, marriages and divorces. Such a partnership is likely to have a precarious existence, Messrs Agarwal and Co. v. Commissioner of Income-tax, AIR 1970 SC 1343: (1971) 1 SCR 237: (1970) 2 SCC 48.The expression 'Hindu undivided family' in the Income-tax Act is used in the sense in which a Hindu joint family is understood under the various schools of Hindu law (see Attorney-General of Ceylon v. Ar. Arunachalam Chettiar (1958) 34 ITR 42: 1957 AC 540) and Gowli Buddanna v. CIT. (supra). In the case of CIT v. Rm. Are. Veerappa Chettiar, ((1970) 3 SCR 307: (1970) 76 ITR 467: (1970) 1 SCC 174) the Supreme Court observed that under the Hindu law it is not predicated of a Hindu joint family that there must be a male members. It was accordingly held that so long as the property which was originally of the joint Hindu family remains in the hands of the Widows of the members of the family an...
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