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To gain knowledge or information of to ascertain by inquiry study or investigation to receive instruction concerning to fix in the mind to acquire understanding of or skill as to learn the way to learn a lesson to learn dancing to learn to skate to learn the violin to learn the truth about something...
Learned
Of or pertaining to learning possessing or characterized by learning esp scholastic learning erudite well informed as a learned scholar writer or lawyer a learned book a learned theory...
Gains of learning
Gains of learning, s. 2(b) 'gains of learning' means all acquisitions of property made substantially by means of learning, whether such acquisitions be made before or after the commencement of this Act and whether such acquisitions be the ordinary or the extraordinary result of such learning. [Hindu Gains of Learning Act, 1930 (30 of 1930), s. 2(b)]...
Learning
Learning, the definition of the term 'learning' is very wide and almost encompasses within its sweep every acquired capacity which enables the acquirer of the capacity 'to pursue any trade, industry, profession or avocation in life', Chandrakant Manilal Shah v. CIT, (1992) 1 SCC 76: AIR 1992 SC 66. [Hindu Gains of LearningAct, 1930, s. 2(c)]...
learned intermediary
learned intermediary : a person and esp. a physician who is properly warned of the dangers of a product by the manufacturer in accordance with the learned intermediary doctrine ...
Learning
The acquisition of knowledge or skill as the learning of languages the learning of telegraphy...
learned intermediary doctrine
learned intermediary doctrine : a doctrine of products liability law: the manufacturer of a prescription drug fulfills its duty to warn of potentially harmful effects of the drug by informing the prescribing physician and is not also obligated to warn the user ...
Half learned
Imperfectly learned...
University
University, an association of learners, and of teachers and examiners of the learners, upon whose report the association grants upon whose report the association grants titles called 'degrees' (such as 'Master of Arts,' 'Doctor of Divinity'), showing that the holders have attained some definite proficiency.The English Universities are those of Oxford, Cambridge (incorporated by 13 Eliz. c. 29, by the two names of the Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford and Cambridge respectively, with the direction that they shall be called and named by none other name for evermore), Durham, London, Victoria of Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, Bristol, and East Midland University Nottingham, the graduates of which (see University of Liverpool Act, 1904; (English) University of Leeds Act, 1904; and (English) Sheffield University Act, 1914) have equal statutory privileges and exemptions; and Reading University (see 18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 25). There is also the Uni...
Profession
Profession, 'one of a limited number of occupation or vocations involving special learning and carry-ing a social prestige -- the learned professional, law, medicine, and the church', New Lexicon Webster Dictionary, p. 798.A profession ordinarily is an occupation requiring intellectual skill, often coupled with manual skill. Thus a teacher uses purely intellectual skill while a painter uses both. In any event, they are not engaged in an occupation in which employers and employees co-operates in the production or sale of commodities or arrangement for their production or sale or distribution and their services cannot be described as material services, Safdarjung Hospital v. Kuldip Singh Sethi, AIR 1970 SC 1407 (1413): (1970) 1 SCC 735; see also Sodan Singh v. NDNC, (1989) 4 SCC 155.Calling, vocation, known employment; divinity, physic, and law are called the learned professions.Includes business, Pioneer Motors v. Municipal Council Ngarcoil, AIR 1967 SC 684: 1961 (3) SCR 609.Profession,...
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