Held

Held, the word 'held' means possession of legal and does not require actual connected occupation, Jilubhai Nanbhai Khadhar v. State of Gujarat, 1995 Supp (1) SCC 596; AIR 1995 SC 142.The word 'held' in s. 9 of the U.P. Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950 means 'lawfully held'. Judicial propriety requires that if a bench of a High Court is unable to agree with the decision already rendered by another co-ordinate bench of the same High Court, the question should be referred to a larger bench, Budhan Singh v. Nabi Bux, AIR 1970 SC 1880 (1884): (1969) 2 SCC 481: (1970) 2 SCR 10.The expression 'held' occurring in s. 9 of the U.P. Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950 can be construed to mean 'lawfully held'. Kailash Rai v. Jai Jai Ram, AIR 1973 SC 893 (897): (1973) 1 SCC 527: (1973) 3 SCR 411 [U.P. Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act (1 of 1951), s. 9]In the Unabridged Edition of The Random House Dictionary of the English Language, the word 'hold' has been inter ali...

Object held sacred

Object held sacred, the word 'object' has to be interpreted 'ejusdem generis' with a place of worship. Interpreted like that,it would mean that the section would apply only to cases where an idol in a temple is sought to be destroyed, damaged, or defiled. The words 'any object held sacred by any class of persons' even otherwise will apply only to idols in a temple or when they are carried out in processions on festival occasions, A. Veerabhadran Chettiar v. E.V. Ramaswami Naicker, AIR 1955 Mad 550. (Indian Penal Code, s. 295)Any object however trivial or destitute of real value in itself, if regarded as sacred by any class of persons would come within the meaning of the Penal Section, Veerabadran Chettiari v. E. V. Ramaswami Naicker, AIR 1958 SC 1032 (1035): 1959 SCR 1211. (Indian Penal Code, s. 295)...

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)]...

Held for Commercial Purpose

Held for Commercial Purpose, an individual acquiring (or having acquired for his own use subsequently decides to hold) products for a purpose other than his own use, such products are to be regarded as held for commercial purposes, Regina (Hoverspeed Ltd.) v. Customs and Excise Commissioners, (2003) 2 WLR 950 (EWCA)...

closely held

closely held : having most stock shares and corporate voting rights in the hands of a few shareholders ...

closely held corporation

closely held corporation : close corporation at corporation ...

held

held past and past part of hold ...

publicly held corporation

publicly held corporation : public corporation at corporation ...

closely held

owned by a relatively few shareholders of business organizations as a closely held corporation...

Tenure

Tenure, cannot be equated with 'terms and con-ditions of services' or payment of gravity or pension. Tenure when followed by words of office, means term of office, Punjab University v. Khalsa College, Amritsar, AIR 1971 P&H 479: 1971 Cur LJ 334.Means a right, term, or mode of holding lands or tenements in subordination to a superior; in fendal times, real property was held predominantly as part of a tenure system, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1481.Tenure, the mode of holding property. The only tenures in land now existing with a few unimpor-tant exceptions are (1) free and common socage in fee-simple, including enfranchised copyhold, which is subject to paramount incidents; and (2) a term of years absolute (see LAND). The idea of tenure or holding is said to derive from feudalism, which separated the dominium directum (the dominion of the soil), which it placed mediately, or immediately, in the Crown, from the dominium utile (the possessory title), the right to use the profits ...

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