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Shop, a place where thins are kept for sale, usually in small quantities, to the actual consumers. By (English) Shops Act, 1912, s. 19, 'shop' includes any premises where any 'retail trade or business' is carried on; 'retail trade or business' includes the business of a barber or hairdresser, but not the sale of programmes, etc., at places of amusement.A business establishment or place of employment; a factory, office, or other place of business, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1384.The (English) Shops Act, 1934, deals with the employment of persons under eighteen years, repealing s. 2 of the (English) Shops Act, 1912; but the other provisions are unaffected. The 1934 Act, s. 1, provides that no young person (under eighteen) shall be employed for more than the normal maximum working hours, that is, forty-eight hours in any week; it makes restrictions on right employment, has special provisions as to the catering trade, the sale of accessories for Aircraft, motor vehicles and cycle...
party
party pl: parties 1 a : one (as a person, group, or entity) constituting alone or with others one of the sides of a proceeding, transaction, or agreement [the parties to a contract] [a person who signed the instrument as a to the instrument "Uniform Commercial Code"] accommodated party : a party to an instrument for whose benefit an accommodation party signs and incurs liability on the instrument : a party for whose benefit an accommodation is made accommodation party : a party who signs and thereby incurs liability on an instrument that is issued for value and given for the benefit of an accommodated party secured party : a party holding a security interest in another's property third party : a person other than the principals [insurance against injury to a third party] b : one (as an individual, firm, or corporation) that constitutes the plaintiff or defendant in an action ;also : one so involved in the prosecution or defense of a judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding as t...
Planning
Planning, as that term is used in connection with community development is a generic term, rather than a word of art, and has no fixed meaning. Broadly speaking, however, the term connotes the systematic development of a community or an area with particular reference to the location, character, and extent of streets, squares, and parks, and to kindred mapping and charting, American Jurisprudence, 2nd (Vol. 82, at p. 388).Planning, connotes a systematic development contrived to promote the common interest in matters, embraced within the police power, with particular reference to the localities, character, and extent of streets, squares, parks, and to kindred mapping and charting, Manaklal Chottebai v. M.G. Makwana, (1968) 1 SCJ 379.Laws dealing with development planning are indis-pensable to sanitation and healthy urbanization. Development planning comprehensively takes care of statutory, manual, administrative and land-use laws hand in hand with architectural creativity. In the words o...
Owner
Owner, for the purposes of the Public Health Act, 1936, s. 343, replacing s. 4 of the Public Health Act, 1875, the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, and the London Building Acts (Amendment) Act (5 Edw. 7, c. ccix.), 'the person for the time being receiving the rack-rent of the premises in connection with which the word is used, whether on his own account or as agent or trustee, or who would so receive the same if the same were let at a rack-rent' (see that title), and Kensington Corporation v. Allen, (1926) 1 KB 576.In relation to an industrial undertaking, means the person who, or the authority which, has the ultimate control over the affairs of the undertaking, and, where the said affairs are entrusted to a manager, managing director or managing agent, such manager, managing director or managing agent shall be deemed to be the owner of the undertaking. [Industries (Development and Regulation) Act, 1951 (65 of 1951), s. 3 (f)]In relation to an undertaking, means an individual Hindu undi...
Hereditaments
Hereditaments, every kind of property that can be inherited; i.e., not only property which a person has by descent from his ancestors, but also that which he has by purchase, because his heir can inherit it from him. The two kinds of hereditaments are corporeal, which are tangible (in fact, they mean the same thing as land), and incorporeal, which are not tangible, and are the rights and profits annexed to, or issuing out of, land. It includes money held in trust to be laid out in land [Re Gosselin, (1906) 1 Ch 120].Any property that can be inherited; anything that passes by intestacy, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 730.The enumeration of incorporeal hereditaments in Hale's Analysis (p. 48) is the following:-Rents, services, tithes, commons, and other profits in alieno solo, pensions, offices, franchises, liberties, villains, dignities. But Blackstone enumerates ten principal kinds:-Advowsons, tithes, commons, ways, offices, dignities, franchises, corodies or pensions, annuities,...
due diligence
due diligence 1 : such diligence as a reasonable person under the same circumstances would use : use of reasonable but not necessarily exhaustive efforts called also reasonable diligence NOTE: Due diligence is used most often in connection with the performance of a professional or fiduciary duty, or with regard to proceeding with a court action. Due care is used more often in connection with general tort actions. 2 a : the care that a prudent person might be expected to exercise in the examination and evaluation of risks affecting a business transaction b : the process of investigation carried on usually by a disinterested third party (as an accounting or law firm) on behalf of a party contemplating a business transaction (as a corporate acquisition or merger, loan of finances, or esp. purchase of securities) for the purpose of providing information with which to evaluate the advantages and risks involved [the greatest exposure…for failure to conduct adequate due diligence...
Agricultural Marketing Acts, 1931 to 1933
Agricultural Marketing Acts, 1931 to 1933 (English), The Act of 1931 (21 & 22 Geo. 5, c. 42) enables schemes to be made for regulating the marketing of agricultural products, foods and drinks made or derived therefrom, and fleeces and skins of animals, to establish marketing boards in connection with such schemes, to establish funds for loans to these boards, and to encourage agricultural co-operation, research and education. The Act of 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 31) amends and extends the 1931 Act by provisions for restrictions on the importation and sale of agricultural products and for the production of such secondary agricultural products wholly or partly manufactured or derived from another agricultural products as may be specified by an order in force under s. 7, Part II., of the Act of 1933. Schemes under the Act of 1931 may be submitted by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries after consultation with the Board of Trade by laying a draft before each House of Parliament, and if...
Election
Election, the word 'election' means any and every act taken by the competent authority after the publication of the election notification, Manda Jaganath v. K.S. Rathnam, (2004) 7 SCC 492: AIR 2004 SC 3601 (3604).The act of selecting one or more from a greater number for an office.The exercise of his choice by a man left to his own free will to take or to do one thing or another. It is the obligation imposed upon a person to choose between two inconsistent or alternative rights or claims. Thus, in Scarf v. Jardine, (1882) 7 App Cas 345, the House of Lords held that a customer could not sue a new firm after having elected to sue a retiring partner.Electio semel facta et placitum testatum non patitur regressum. Quod semel placuit in electionibus amplius displicere non potest. Co. Litt. 146, 146 a.--(Elections once made and plea witnessed suffers not a recall. What has once pleased a man in elections cannot displease him on further consideration.) See also Re Simms, Ex p. Trustee, 1934 Ch...
Trade dispute
Trade dispute, means a dispute between two countries arising from tariff rates or other matters related to international commerce, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1500.This expression is defined in s. 5 (3) of the (English) Trade Disputes Act, 1906, as follows:-'Trade dispute' means any dispute between employers and workmen, or between workmen and workmen, which his connected with the employment or non-employment or the terms of the employment, or with the conditions of labour, of any person, and the expression 'workmen' means all persons employed in trade or industry whether or not in the employment of the employer with whom a trade dispute arises.By s. 1, 'An act done in pursuance of an agreement or combination by two or more persons shall, if done in contemplation of a trade dispute, not be actionable unless the act, if done without any such agreement or combination, would be actionable.' But the provisions of the Act shall not apply to any act done in contemplation or furthera...
Contract labour
Contract labour, a workman shall be deemed to be employed as 'contract labour' in or in connection with the work of an establishment when he is hired in or in connection with such work by or through a contractor, with or without the knowledge of the principal employer. [Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 (37 of 1970), s. 2 (1) (b)]Means any person engaged or employed in any premises by or through a contractor, with or without the knowledge of the employer, in any manufacturing process. [The Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966 (32 of 1966), s. 2 (e)]...
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