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To form raised work upon the outer surface of thin metal ware by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface...
Lazuli
A mineral of a fine azure blue color usually in small rounded masses It is essentially a silicate of alumina lime and soda with some sodium sulphide is often marked by yellow spots or veins of sulphide of iron and is much valued for ornamental work Called also lapis lazuli and Armenian stone...
Smithing
The act or art of working or forging metals as iron into any desired shape...
Roughdry
in laundry work to dry without smoothing or ironing...
Railway
Railway. A road owned by a private person or public company on which carriages run over iron rails; if the road is a public highway, that part of it on which the rails are laid is called a tramway. Every railway in this country (except a few private railways running through land owned by the owner of the railway) is constructed and managed (1) under a local and personal Act of Parliament; and (2) under the Companies Clauses, Lands Clauses, and Railways Clauses Consolidation Acts; and (3) under the general Acts relating to railways. The (English) Railway Act, 1921, provides for the reorganization of almost all the railways in England.Railway Companies as Carriers, The powers of railway companies as carriers are given by the 86th section of the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and controlled by the (English) Railway and Canal Traffic Acts of 1854, 1873, and 1888. The (English) Act of 1845, s. 86, enacts that:-It shall be lawful for the company [authorized (see s. 3) by the speci...
Distress
Distress [fr. distringo, Lat., to bind fast; districtio, Med. Lat., whence distraindre, Fr.], a taking, without legal process, of a personal chattel from the possession of a wrong-doer into the hands of a party grieved, as a pledge for the redressing an injury, the performance of a duty, or the satisfaction of a demand.This remedy may be resorted to by a landlord for recovery of rent in arrear, by a rate collector or tax collector for recovery of rates or taxes, and by justices of the peace for the recovery of fines due on summary convictions.A distress may be made of common right for the rent payable by a tenant to a landlord, technically termed 'rent-service,' and by particular reservation, or under s. 121 of the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, for rent-charges, and also for rents-seck since the (English) Landlord and Tenant Act, 1730 (4 Geo. 2, c. 28), s. 5, which extended the same remedy to rents-seck, rents of assize, and chief-rents, and thereby in effect abolished all mater...
Excise duty
Excise duty, it is a tax on articles produced or manu-factured in the taxing country. Generally speaking, the tax is on the manufacturer or the producer, yet laws are to be found which impose a duty of excise at stages subsequent to the manufacture or produc-tion, A.B. Abdul Kadir v. State of Kerala, (1976) 3 SCC 219: AIR 1976 SC 182: (1976) 2 SCR 690. (Constitu-tion of India, Sch. VII, List I Entry 84)According to s. 3(1) of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 the expression 'the excise duty for the time being leviable on a like article if produced or manu-factured in India' means the excise duty for the time being in force which would be leviable on a like article if produced or manufactured in India or, if a like article is not so produced or manufactured which would be leviable on the class of description of article to which the imported article belongs, and where such duty is leviable at different rates, the highest duty, Khandelwal Metal and Engineering Works v. Union of India, (1985) 3...
Gratuity
Gratuity, it is a kind of retirement benefit like the provident fund or pension. At one time it was treated as payment gratuitously made by the employer to his employee at his pleasure but as a result of a long series of decisions of industrial tribunals gratuity has now come to be regarded as a legitimate claim which workmen can make and which, in a proper case, can give rise to an industrial dispute. Gratuity paid to workmen is intended to help them after retirement, whether the retirement is the result of the rules superannuation or of physical disability, Indian Hume Pipe Co. Ltd. v. Workmen, AIR 1960 SC 251: (1960) 2 SCR 32.Gratuity is a retiral benefit and can be earned as a matter of right on fulfilling the conditions subject to which it is earned, any rule conferring absolute discretion not testable on reason, justice or fair play must be treated as utterly arbitrary and unreason-able and discarded, Sudhir Chandra Sarkar v. Tata Iron and Steel Co. Ltd., AIR 1984 SC 1064 (1071):...
Rate
Rate, A contribution levied by some public body for a public purpose, as a poor rate, a highway rate, a sewers rate, upon, as a general rule, the occupiers of property within a parish or other area.Proportional or relative value; the proportion of which quantity or value is adjusted, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1268.The term 'rate' is also used to mean a charge by a water, gas, railway, or other public undertaking for services rendered e.g., (English) Railways Act, 1921, s. 20; Metropolitan Water Board Charges Act, 1921 (11 & 12 Geo. 5, c. xciv.).The poor rate was levied under the (English) Poor Relief Act, 1601 (43 Eliz. s. 2), on the occupiers in each parish of 'lands, houses, tithes, coal mines, or saleable underwoods,' and the (English) Rating Act, 1874, extended the liability to rates to: (1) land used for a plantation or a wood, or for the growth of saleable underwood, and not subject to any right of common; (2) rights of fowling, shooting, taking, or killing game, or ra...
Shall be deemed to be discharged
Shall be deemed to be discharged, the expression 'shall be deemed to be discharged' has to be read in the context of the declaration of a lock-out, and the intention of the company was that the employees whose employment had been refused during the period of lock out were to be permitted to resume work without any conditions if they reported for duty by a particular date and on fulfillment of a condition if they reported for duty after that date, Indian Iron and Steel Co. Ltd. v. Their Workmen, AIR 1958 SC 130: (1958) SCR 667....
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