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Intoxicating drug, means, opium, ganja, bhang, charas and any preparation or admixture thereof, and includes any other intoxicating substance, or liquid which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be an intoxicating drug for purposes of this Act. [Canton-ments Act, 1924 (2 of 1924), s. 2 (xix)]...
Fixed fee
Fixed fee, the term 'licence fee' or the term 'fixed fee' in the context of the Uttar Pradesh Excise Act, the Ordinance with its preamble and the Excise (Amendment) Rules, connotes the idea of payment of a sum by a person to the grantor of a licence as consideration for conferring upon such person by the grant of shop-licence, the exclusive privilege or right to carry on certain activities in respect of country liquor, or foreign liquor or intoxicating drug, within any local area of Uttar Pradesh State, the carrying of which activities would have been otherwise the exclusive privilege or right of the grantor (Government), State of Uttar Pradesh v. Sheopat Rai, 1994 Supp (1) SCC 8: AIR 1994 SC 813. [U.P. Excise Act (40 of 1910) s. 24A (as inserted by U.P. Excise (Amendment) Ordinance, 1972)]...
Place of public entertainment
Place of public entertainment, includes any place to which the public are admitted and in which an entertainment is provided or held. [Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955 (22 of 1955), s. 2 (c)]Means a lodging house, boarding and lodging house or residential hostel and includes any eating house or other place in which any kind of liquor or intoxicating drug is supplied (such as taven or a shop where beer, spirit, arracact, toddy, ganja, bhang or opium is supplied) to the public for consumption in or near such place. [Delhi Police Act, 1978 (34 of 1978), s. 2(l2)]...
Refreshment
Refreshment, would include ordinary refreshment which has nothing to do with alcohol or liquor or spirit or any drug which intoxicates, Sheikh Mohammed Soleman v. State of West Bengal, AIR 1965 Cal 312....
nondischargeable debt
nondischargeable debt A debt that cannot be eliminated in bankruptcy. Examples include a home mortgage, debts for alimony or child support, certain taxes, debts for most government funded or guaranteed educational loans or benefit overpayments, debts arising from death or personal injury caused by driving while intoxicated or under the influence of drugs, and debts for restitution or a criminal fine included in a sentence on the debtor's conviction of a crime. Some debts, such as debts for money or property obtained by false pretenses and debts for fraud or defalcation while acting in a fiduciary capacity may be declared nondischargeable only if a creditor timely files and prevails in a nondischargeability action. Source: Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts ...
workers' compensation
workers' compensation 1 : compensation for injury to an employee arising out of and in the course of employment that is paid to the worker or dependents by an employer whose strict liability for such compensation is established by statute NOTE: Where established by statute, workers' compensation is generally the exclusive remedy for injuries arising from employment, with some exceptions. Workers' compensation statutes commonly include explicit exclusions for injury caused intentionally, by willful misconduct, and by voluntary intoxication from alcohol or illegal drugs. 2 : workers' compensation insurance ...
Drunkenness
Drunkenness, intoxication with strong liquor; habit-ual inebriety. A contract made by a person when so drunk as to be unable to understand what he is doing is voidable if the person with whom the contract was made was aware of the fact, but it is not void, and may be ratified when he becomes sober, Matthews v. Baxter, (1873) LR 8 Ex 132. Mere drunknness was punishable by statutes 4 Jac. 1, c. 5, and 21 Jac. 1, c. 7, ss. 1, 3, by a fine of five shillings and confinement in the stocks in default of distress. Under the Licensing Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 94), which repeals various previous enactments, drunkenness in a public place or licensed house is punishable by fine (s. 12). Disorderly drunkenness is punishable by fine or imprisonment, and refusal by drunken persons to quit licensed premises is punishable by fine. [(English) Licensing Consolidation Act, 1910, s. 80]The 1st s. of the (English) Licensing Act, 1902 (2 Edw. 7, c. 28), enacts that--If a person is found drunk in any highw...
Bhang
An astringent and narcotic drug made from the dried leaves and seed capsules of wild hemp Cannabis Indica and chewed or smoked in the East as a means of intoxication See Hasheesh...
Habitual drunkard
Habitual drunkard. Defined by the (English) Habitual Drunkards Act, 1879 (42 & 43 Vict. c. 19) (made perpetual by the Inebriates Act, 1888, and amended by the (English) Inebriates Acts, 1898 and 1899), which authorizes confinement in a retreat, upon the party's own application, as:-A person who, not being amenable to any jurisdiction in lunacy, is notwithstanding, by reason of habitual intemperate drinking of intoxicating liquor, at times dangerous to himself or herself or to others, or incapable of managing himself or herself, and his or her affairs.See also (English) Licensing Act, 1902, s. 5 (extended to drug addicts by 15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 51, s. 3); Eaton v. Best, (1909) 1 KB 632; R. v. Briggs, ibid. 381; and DRUNKENNESS....
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