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Entertainment
Entertainment, In Stroud's Judicial Dictionary (4th Edn., Vol. 2, p. 916) the word 'entertainment' has been defined thus: Entertainment ..... for a … 'entertainment.' If such a bare necessity is offered by another, it is hospitality but not entertainment. Unless the definition of 'entertainment' includes hospitality, the ordinary meaning of 'entertainment' cannot include hospitality, CIT v. Patel Bros. & Co.
Bribe
for the benefit of the giver. It is a misdemeanour at common law for a public officer, whether judicial or ministerial, to accept a bribe, or for such an officer to conspire with others that he shall … having voted or refrained from voting at any parliamentary election, is bribery punishable by heavy penalties; and this definition is applied to municipal and other local elections by the (English) Municipal Elections (Corrupt and Illegal Practices) Act,
Code
codification not only does that, but fuses into the new whole the Common Law (as laid down by judicial decisions) besides. A Criminal Code (Indictable Offences) Bills was submitted to Parliament in 1878. This Bill, which was … and, therefore, necessarily became part of the Code for all purposes. That is the clear effect of the definition of the expressions 'Code' and 'rules' and ss. 121, 122 and 127, State of Uttar Pradesh v. Pt.
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Family
as contained in S. 14K(c) of the West Bengal Land Reforms Act, 1955, is more realistic than the definitions of this term in similar laws for imposition of ceiling on agricultural holdings enacted in other States. The … the subscriber is alive, a paternal grandparent: Provided that if a subscriber proves that his wife has been judicially separated from him or has ceased under the customary law of the community to which she belongs to
bill
legislative act formerly permitted that attainted a person and imposed a sentence of death without benefit of a judicial trial see also attainder compare bill of pains and penalties in this entry 2 : a legislative act … particulars have been abandoned in favor of the expanded rules for discovery and the motion for a more definite statement. bill of peace : an equitable bill used to settle the rights of parties in one suit
Interest
alia, compensation paid by the borrower to the lender for deprivation of the use of his money, Stroud's Judicial Dictionary of Words and Phrases (5th Edn.) see also Ghaziabad Development Authority v. Balbir Singh, (2004) 5 SCC … Riding and Grimsby Ry. Co., (1865) LR 1 QB 84], and the (English) Lands Clauses Acts, by their definition of 'Justices,' express the implied disqualification by interest; so, with an extension and an exception, does s. 40
Property
its two leading divisions are (1) real, and (2) personal; every possible interest which party can have, Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, Vol. 2, p. 2089. Property, is a term of the widest import and subject to any limitation … which the party can have. The term property has a most extensive signification, and, according to its legal definition, consists in free use, enjoyment, and disposition by a person of all his acquisitions, without any control or
Executive function
means and implies. Ordinarily the executive power connotes the residue of governmental functions that remain after legislative and judicial functions are taken away. The executive function comprises both the determination of the policy as well as carrying … Executive function, it may not be possible to frame an exhaustive definition of what executive function means and implies. Ordinarily the executive power connotes the residue of governmental functions that
Invention
that a patentable invention, apart from being a new manufacture, must also be useful. The foundation for this judicial interpretation is to be found in the fact that s. 26(1)(f) of the 1911 Act recognises lack of … the Patents Act, 1970, the Act of 1911 does not specify the requirement of being useful in the definition of 'invention'. But Courts have always taken the view that a patentable invention, apart from being a new
Begar
or service extracted by a govern-ment or person in power without giving remuneration for it'. Wilson's Glossary of Judicial and Revenue Terms gives the following meaning of the word 'begar': 'a forced labourer. One pressed to carry … other words has found its way in the English vocabulary. It is very difficult to formulate a precise definition of the word 'begar', but there can be no doubt that it is a form of forced labour
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