Increment - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Increment, an increment is in the same scale while a promotion is from one scale to a higher scale. A promotion from a lower grade to a higher grade, though both the grades may be in the same cadre, is not an increment or increment by way of special promotion, State Bank of India v. Presiding Officer, AIR 1972 SC 2189 (2194): (1972) 3 SCC 595....
Increment value
Increment value. The Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910 (10 Edw. 7, c. 8), imposed (ss. 1-42) a duty charged on the amount, if any, by which the site value of the land on the occasion on which the charge is made exceeds the original site value of the land. This was called the increment value of land. With the exception of mineral rights duty, these duties were abolished by s. 57 of the Finance Act, 1920....
Incremental
Pertaining to or resulting from the process of growth as the incremental lines in the dentine of teeth...
Cess
Cess [fr. asseoir, Fr., to fix), an assessment or tax. In Ireland it was anciently applied to a exaction of victuals, at a certain rate, for soldiers in garrison, and in modern times is equivalent to the English 'Rate.'Means the cess levied under s. 3. [Research and Development Cess Act, 1986 (32 of 1986), s. 2 (b)]The word 'cess' is used in Ireland and is still in use in India although the word rate has replaced it in England. It means a tax and is generally used when the levy is for some special administrative expense what the name (health cess, education cess, road cess etc.) indicates. When levied as an increment to an existing tax, the name matters not for the validity of the cess must be judged of in the same way as the validity of the tax to which it is an increment, Guruswamy and Co. v. State of Mysore, (1967) 1 SCR 548: AIR 1967 SC 1512. Also see, India Cement Ltd. v. State of T.N., (1990) 1 SCC 12: AIR 1990 SC 85.It means a tax and is generally used when the levy is for some ...
Compulsory deposite
Compulsory deposite, 'Compulsory deposit means a subscription to, or deposit in a Provident Fund which under the rules of the Fund, is not until the happening of some specified contingency repayable on demand otherwise than for the purpose of the payment of premia in respect of a policy of life insurance (or the payment of subscriptions or premia in respect of a family pension fund), and includes any contribution and any interest or increment which has accrued under the rules of the fund on any such subscription, deposit, contribution, and also any such subscription, deposit, contribution interest or increment remaining to the credit of the subscriber or depositor after the happening of any such contingency', Union of India v. Hira Devi, AIR 1952 SC 227 (228): (1952) SCR 765. [The Provident Funds Act XIX of 1925, s. 2 (a)]...
point
point 1 : a particular detail, proposition, or issue of law ;specif : point of error 2 : any of various incremental units used in measuring, fixing, or calculating something: as a : a unit used in calculating a sentence by various factors (as aggravating or mitigating circumstances) b : a unit used in the pricing of securities and valuation of markets c : a charge to a borrower (as a mortgagor) that is equal to one percent of the principal and that is made at closing in point or on point : relevant to the legal issues at hand ...
Colony counter
an instrument designed to conveniently count or assist counting colonies9 of microorganisms on a plate containing a gelled growth medium One variety uses a pencil like rod with a metal tip which is connected by an electrical connection to the gelled growth medium when touched to a colony9 on the plate the completion of the electrical circuit causes an increment of 1 unit on the readout of the colony counter...
Equicrescent
Increasing by equal increments as an equicrescent variable...
ment
A suffix denoting that which does a thing an act or process the result of an act or process state or condition as aliment that which nourishes ornament increment fragment piece broken segment abridgment act of abridging imprisonment movement adjournment amazement state of being amazed astonishment...
Grade
Grade, rank, position, in scale, class or position in class according to the value, Hari Nandan Sharan Bhatnagar v. S.N. Dikshit, AIR 1970 SC 40 (41): (1969) 2 SCC 245: (1970) 1 SCR 421. [United Pro-vinices Legislative Department Rules, R. 7]An incremental step in the scale of punishment for offences, based an a particular offenses genousners, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 705....
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