Machination - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Machine, A device or apparatus consisting of, fined and moving parts that work together to perform some function, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 961.Machine, includes prime movers, transmission machinery and all other appliances whereby power is generated, transferred, transmitted or applied to a dangerous machine. [Dangerous Machines (Regulation) Act, 1983 (35 of 1983), s. 3 (i)]Machine, the meaning of the word 'machine' according to the dictionary in a popular and mechanical sense is '....... more or less complex combination of mechanical parts, as levers, gears, sprocket wheels, pulleys, shafts and spindles, ropes, chains, and bands, cams and other turning and sliding pieces, springs, confined fluids etc. together with the frame work and fastenings, supporting and connecting them, as when it is designed to operate upon material to change it in some pre-conceived and definite manner, Sales Tax Commissioner v. Ladha Mal, AIR 1971 SC 2221 (2222): (1971) 2 SCC 407....
Dangerous machine
Dangerous machine, means a power thresher, and includes any such machine intended to be used in the agricultural or rural sector the Central Government, being of opinion that it is of such a nature that any accident in the course of operation thereof is likely to cause to its operator death, dismemberment of any limb or other bodily injury, may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify as dangerous machine. [Dangerous Machines (Regulation) Act, 1983 (35 of 1983), s. 3 (c)]...
Threshing machines
Threshing machines. Steam threshing machines, by the Threshing Machines Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 12), must be fenced....
machine readable passport (mrp)
machine readable passport (mrp) A passport which has biographic information entered on the data page according to international specifications. A machine readable passport is required to travel with a visa on the Visa Waiver Program. See the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) to learn more about the requirements. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
machine readable visa (mrv)
machine readable visa (mrv) A visa that contains biometric information about the passport holder. A visa that immigration officers read with special machines when the applicants enter the United States. It gives biographic information about the passport holder and tells the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) information on the type of visa. It is also called MRV. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
Machine
In general any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified as a screw and its nut or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot etc especially a construction more or less complex consisting of a combination of moving parts or simple mechanical elements as wheels levers cams etc with their supports and connecting framework calculated to constitute a prime mover or to receive force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine and transmit modify and apply them to the production of some desired mechanical effect or work as weaving by a loom or the excitation of electricity by an electrical machine...
Chaff-cutting machines
Chaff-cutting machines are required, for prevention of accidents, if worked by any motive power other than manual labour, to have their feeding mouths so contrived as to prevent the hand of the person feeding them from being drawn between the rollers to the knives. [(English) Chaff-Cutting Machines (Accidents) Act, 1897 (60 & 61 Vict. c. 60)]...
Burring machine
A machine for cleansing wool of burs seeds and other substances...
Gramme machine
A kind of dynamo electric machine so named from its French inventor M Gramme...
Machinal
Of or pertaining to machines...
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