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Line clear, what is meant by line-clear is not that the lines in the station yard are clear for reception of the train but that there is no obstruction on the track beyond the outer-most signals on the down side of the station which the train has to enter, Awadh Behari Sharma v. State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1956 SC 738 (742): (1956) Cri LJ 1372....
bright line
bright line : a clear distinction that resolves a question or matter in dispute bright-line adj ...
Load-line
Load-line, a line painted on the sides of a ship to show how far up the sides the water will rise when the ship is loaded. The (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 9), substituted a 'maximum load-line in salt water, to which it should be lawful to load a ship,' i.e., a compulsory load-line, for a load-line indicating a point beyond which the owner intended that it should not be loaded, as prescribed by the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1876, i.e., an optional load-line; and this provision of the Act of 1890 was re-enacted by s. 437 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, and see also s. 8 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1906. Both these sections have now been repealed by the (English) Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1932 (22 Geo. 5, c. 9), and ss. 43 to 46 now prescribed the law.Under the (English) M.S. Act, 1894, s. 442, sub-mergence beyond the load-line by reason of weather was held to be an offence, Radcliffe v. Brickwell, (1927) 2...
Clearing
Clearing, a among London bankers a method adopted by them for exchanging the drafts of each other's houses, and settling the difference. At fixed hours, each day, a clerk from each banker attends at the clearing-house, bringing all the drafts on the other bankers which have been paid into his house during the day, and delivers to each of the other clerks the obligations he has against his house, receiving from each the obligations due from his own. Balances are struck at the end of the day, the clerk to the Clearing House making up the accounts between each bank. The balances are not paid to or received from the other bankers as formerly, but are settled with the Clearing House, which keeps an account itself at the Bank of England. There is also a Country Clearing House. Consult McLeod on Banking; Grant's Law of Banking, 6th Edn. P. 66.Maritime law. The departure of a ship from port after complying with customs, health laws and other local regulations, Black's Law Dictionary,7th Edn., ...
Electric line
Electric line, 'electric line' means any line which is used for carrying electricity for any purpose and includes:-(a) any support for any such line, that is to say, any structure, tower, pole or other thing in, on, by or from which any such line is, or may be, supported, carried or suspended; and(b) any apparatus connected to any such line for the purpose of carrying electricity. [Electricity Act, 2003 (36 of 2003), s. 2(20)]...
Dedicated transmission lines
Dedicated transmission lines, 'dedicated trans-mission lines' means any electric supply-line for point to point transmission which are required for the purpose of connecting electric lines or electric plants of a captive generating plant referred to in, s. 9 or generating station referred to in, s. 10 to any transmission lines or sub-stations or generating stations or the load center, as the case may be. [Electricity Act, (36 of 2003), s. 2(16)]...
Line
Line, succession of relations (see INHERITANCE); boundary; the twelfth part of an inch.The word 'line' in the expression 'telegraph line' connotes the existence of a defined channel of communication which has got a physical existence, Senior Electric Inspector v. Laxminarayan Chopra, AIR 1962 SC 159 (161): (1962) 3 SCR 146.Means any wire, cable, tube, pipe, insulator, conductor or other similar thing (including its casing or coating) which is designed or adapted for use in carrying electricity and includes any line which surrounds or supports, or is surrounded or supported by or is installed in close proximity to, or is supported, carried or suspended in association with, any such line. [Electricity Act, 2003 (36 of 2003), s. 2(40)]...
clearly erroneous
clearly erroneous : being or containing a finding of fact that is not supported by substantial or competent evidence or by reasonable inferences [findings of fact…shall not be set aside unless clearly erroneous "Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 52(a)"] see also Amendment VII to the Constitution in the back matter compare abuse of discretion, de novo NOTE: The requirement that findings be clearly erroneous to be set aside is a standard of review used esp. by an appellate court when reviewing a trial judge's (as opposed to a jury's) findings of fact for error. ...
chalk line
a string impregnated with powdered chalk used in construction to mark a straight line on a surface such as a wall The string is held taut on the surface between the two end points of the line to be made the center of the line is drawn away from the surface and the string is released and snapped against the surface leaving a line of chalk in the desired location...
Gunters line
A logarithmic line on Gunters scale used for performing the multiplication and division of numbers mechanically by the dividers called also line of lines and line of numbers...
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