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joint enterprise 1 : joint venture 2 : an undertaking of two or more parties for a common purpose in which each shares a common interest and an equal right of control (as of a vehicle) NOTE: In regard to a tort involving such an enterprise, a third party may impute negligence of one party (as a driver) to another in the enterprise. ...
Joint venture
Joint venture, The expression 'joint venture' is more frequently used in the United States. It con-notes a legal entity in the nature of a partnership engaged in the joint undertaking of a particular transaction for mutual profit or an association of persons or companies jointly undertaking some commercial enterprise wherein all contribute assets and share risks. It requires a community of interest in the performance of the subject-matter, a right to direct and govern the policy in connection therewith, and duty, which may be altered by agreement, to share both in profit and losses, New Horizons Ltd. v. Union of India, (1995) 1 SCC 478....
joint venture
joint venture 1 : a cooperative business agreement or partnership between two or more parties that is usually limited to a single enterprise and that involves the sharing of resources, control, profits, and losses compare combination 2 : a criminal undertaking by two or more persons in which each intentionally takes part used in the law of Massachusetts ...
Enterprise
Enterprise, means a person or a department of the Government, who or which is, or has been, engaged in any activity, relating to the production, storage, supply, distribution, acquisition or control or articles or goods, or the provision of services, of any kind, or in investment, or in the business of acquiring, holding, underwriting or dealing with shares, debentures or other securities of any other body corporate, either directly or through one or more of its units or divisions of subsidiaries, whether such unit or division or subsidiary is located at the same place where the enterprise is located or at a different place or at different places, but does not include any activity of the Government relatable to the sovereign functions of the Government including all activities carried on by the departments of the Central Government dealing with atomic energy, currency, defence and space.Explanation.--For the purposes of this clause,--(a) 'activity' includes profession or occupation;(b)...
Enterprising
Having a disposition for enterprise characterized by enterprise resolute active or prompt to attempt as an enterprising man or firm...
Foreign enterprise
Foreign enterprise, a 'foreign enterprise' is an enterprise situate in a foreign country having been created or registered in accordance with the law of such country, Petron Engineering Construction P. Ltd. v. Central Board of Direct Taxes, AIR 1989 SC 501: (1989) Supp 2 SCC 7: (1988) Supp 3 SCR 1058. [Income Tax Act, 1961, s. 80-O]...
Joint-tenancy
Joint-tenancy. This tenancy is created where the same interest in real or personal property is, by the act of the party, passed by the same matter of conveyance or claim in solido, and not as merchan-dise, or for purposes of speculation, to two or more persons in the same right, either simply, or by construction or operation of law jointly, with a jus accrescendi, that is, a gradual concentration of property from more to fewer, by the accession of the part of him or them that die to the survivors or survivor, till it passes to a single hand, and the joint-tenancy ceases.Anciently, joint-tenancy was favoured because it did not induce fractions of estates, and returning to early principles the (English) Land Legislation of 1925 has employed the tenure generally as the machinery by which legal estate may in such cases always be in some person, called the estate owner, who is competent to give a title to the whole estate without the concurrence of other parties. that legal estate has been ...
Enterprise
That which is undertaken something attempted to be performed a work projected which involves activity courage energy and the like a bold arduous or hazardous attempt an undertaking as a manly enterprise a warlike enterprise...
joint and several
joint and several : relating or belonging to two or more parties together and separately [joint and several duties of the partners] see also joint and several liability at liability compare in solido, joint, jointly joint·ly and sev·er·al·ly adv ...
Hindu joint family and coparcenary
Hindu joint family and coparcenary, a hindu joint family consists of all persons lineally descended from a common ancestor, and includes their wives an unmarried daughters. A Hindu coparcenary is a much narrower body than the joint family: it includes only those person who acquire by birth an interest in the joint or coparcenary property, these being the sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons of the holder of the joint property for the time being. Therefore there may be a joint Hindu family consisting of a single male member and widows of deceased coparceners, Gowli Buddanna v. CIT, AIR 1966 SC 1523 (1525): (1966) 3 SCR 224. [Income-tax Act, 1922 (11 of 1922), s. 3]...
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